Vehicle heat exchange apparatus
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuya Shimota, Hiroshi Takei
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Abstract
A vehicle heat exchange apparatus, including: a heat exchanger provided rearward of a front bumper formed with an air intake port, and having an air inlet member on a front face of the heat exchanger; and a duct member provided between the front bumper and the heat exchanger, and forming a passage for passing cooling air from the air intake port of the front bumper to the air inlet member of the heat exchanger, wherein the duct member has: a first intake port introducing air from a vehicle front side into the passage through the air intake port provided in the front bumper; a second intake port introducing air from a vehicle lower side into the passage; and an outlet port opened at an end portion of the passage and facing the air inlet member of the heat exchanger.
Claims10
A vehicle heat exchange apparatus, comprising:
- a heat exchanger provided rearward of a front bumper formed with an air intake port, and having an air inlet member on a front face of the heat exchanger;
- and
- a duct member provided between the front bumper and the heat exchanger, and forming a passage for passing cooling air from the air intake port of the front bumper to the air inlet member of the heat exchanger, wherein
- the duct member has:
- a first intake port introducing air from a vehicle front side into the passage through the air intake port provided in the front bumper;
- a second intake port introducing air from a vehicle lower side into the passage;
- and
- an outlet port opened at an end portion of the passage and facing the air inlet member of the heat exchanger, wherein
- the first intake port is formed to gradually increase in opening area toward outside in a vehicle width direction, while the second intake port is formed to gradually decrease in opening area toward the outside in the vehicle width direction.
A vehicle heat exchange apparatus, comprising:
- a heat exchanger provided rearward of a front bumper formed with an air intake port, and having an air inlet member on a front face of the heat exchanger;
- and
- a duct member provided between the front bumper and the heat exchanger, and forming a passage for passing cooling air from the air intake port of the front bumper to the air inlet member of the heat exchanger, wherein
- the duct member has:
- a first intake port introducing air from a vehicle front side into the passage through the air intake port provided in the front bumper;
- a second intake port introducing air from a vehicle lower side into the passage;
- and
- an outlet port opened at an end portion of the passage and facing the air inlet member of the heat exchanger, wherein
- the duct member has a plurality of fins vertically extended from an inner wall surface of the duct member and arranged in a vehicle width direction, wherein
- the plurality of fins is formed so that a protrusion amount downward from an upper end portion of the first intake port when viewing the first intake port from the vehicle front side increases with increasing vertical opening length of the first intake port, wherein
- the first intake port is formed to gradually increase in opening area toward outside in the vehicle width direction, while the second intake port is formed to gradually decrease in opening area toward the outside in the vehicle width direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.