Air cleaner assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJeffrey Morton, David Bryan McGeary, Roger Joseph Khami, Robert Boyer, Scott Allen Schaffer
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Abstract
An air cleaner assembly including a tray including two cleat receptacles spaced apart from one another at a back side of the assembly and a cover including two cleats at the back side, each of the two cleats adapted to seat within one of the two cleat receptacles. The assembly further includes a mounting bracket coupled to the tray, between the two cleat receptacles. The mounting bracket includes a guide rib extending outward from the mounting bracket, toward the cover.
Claims18
An air cleaner assembly, comprising:
- a tray including two cleat receptacles spaced apart from one another at a back side of the air cleaner assembly;
- a cover including two cleats at the back side, each of the two cleats adapted to seat within one of the two cleat receptacles;
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- a mounting bracket coupled to the tray, between the two cleat receptacles, and including at least one guide rib extending outward from the mounting bracket, toward the cover;
- wherein the at least one guide rib includes a first planar surface extending in a forward direction from the mounting bracket and over the tray, a distance above the tray, an angled surface extending vertically upward at an angle from the first planar surface, and a second planar surface extending vertically upward from the angled surface.
An air cleaner assembly, comprising:
- an upper housing including two cleats extending outward from a body of the upper housing and spaced apart from one another at a back side of the air cleaner assembly and an alignment projection extending outward from the body, between the two cleats;
- a lower housing including two cleat receptacles extending upward from a body of the lower housing and arranged at the back side, each of the two cleats adapted to seat within a corresponding one of the two cleat receptacles in a seated position of the air cleaner assembly;
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- a mounting bracket coupled to the lower housing, between the two cleat receptacles, and including at least one guide rib extending outward from an inner surface of the mounting bracket, toward the upper housing, at a vertical position that is above a top surface of the two cleat receptacles;
- wherein in the seated position, a planar surface arranged around a perimeter of the upper housing is in face-sharing contact with a planar surface arranged around a perimeter of the lower housing and an upwardly extending fin arranged at a distal end of each of the two cleats is positioned within and in face-sharing contact with an upper, inner surface of the corresponding one of the two cleat receptacles.
An air cleaner assembly, comprising:
- a lower housing including two cleat receptacles spaced apart from one another at a back side of the air cleaner assembly and two ramped flanges, each having two differently angled ramp surfaces, spaced apart from one another at a front side of the air cleaner assembly;
- an upper housing including two cleats spaced apart from one another at the back side and two mating flanges spaced apart from one another at the front side, each of the two mating flanges adapted to slide along a respective one of the two ramped flanges to guide the upper housing rearward into a seated position where a corresponding one of the two cleats is seated within a corresponding one of the two cleat receptacles;
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- a mounting bracket coupled to the lower housing, between the two cleat receptacles, and including at least one guide rib extending outward from an inner surface of a body of the mounting bracket, toward the upper housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.