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US 10,718,251 B2Granted
Utility vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsLoran Fortik, Takuma Nozaki
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Abstract
A utility vehicle includes: an air-cooled engine; a cooling fan disposed on one side of the engine with respect to a vehicle widthwise direction and configured to supply a cooling air towards a cylinder unit of the engine; an exhaust pipe disposed on the other side of the engine with respect to the vehicle widthwise direction and connected with an exhaust port of the cylinder unit; an oxygen sensor fitted to the exhaust pipe; and a shield configured to prevent muddy water, which is swirled by the cooling fan, from depending on the exhaust pipe.
Claims9
A utility vehicle which comprises:
- an air cooled engine;
- a cooling fan disposed on one side of the engine with respect to a vehicle widthwise direction and configured to supply a cooling air towards a cylinder unit of the engine;
- the cooling fan being fixed to one end portion of an engine rotary shaft on the one side;
- a shroud configured to guide the cooling air from the cooling fan towards the cylinder unit;
- an exhaust pipe disposed on the other side of the engine with respect to the vehicle widthwise direction and connected with an exhaust port of the cylinder unit;
- an oxygen sensor fitted to the exhaust pipe;
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- a shield configured to prevent mud water, which is swirled by the cooling fan, from depositing on the exhaust pipe, wherein the shield and the shroud define a discharge opening that discharges the cooling air in a forward direction of the utility vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.