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US 12,448,940 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Motors, Ltd.
InventorRyosuke Ohori
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine used for traveling and including a crank case and a cylinder block connected to the crank case; an air cleaner that purifies intake air to be supplied to the internal combustion engine; and a breather tube that is connected to the crank case and the air cleaner and supplies a gas in the crank case toward the air cleaner. A connection portion between the breather tube and the crank case is located at a first side of a vehicle width direction middle of the cylinder block in a vehicle width direction.
Claims15
A vehicle comprising:
- an internal combustion engine used for traveling and including:
- a crank case;
- and
- a cylinder block connected to the crank case;
- an air cleaner that purifies intake air to be supplied to the internal combustion engine;
- a breather tube that is connected to the crank case and the air cleaner and supplies a gas in the crank case toward the air cleaner;
- and
- a side stand located at a first side of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction,
- wherein:
- a connection portion between the breather tube and the crank case is located at the first side of a vehicle width direction middle of the cylinder block in the vehicle width direction;
- and is located at the first side of an end surface of the cylinder block in the vehicle width direction and outside the end surface of the cylinder block, the end surface being located at the first side in the vehicle width direction;
- and
- an opening of the breather tube which is located at the air cleaner side is located at a position that deviates from the vehicle width direction middle of the cylinder block toward a second side in the vehicle width direction.
10 more elements
A vehicle comprising:
- an internal combustion engine used for traveling and including:
- a crank case;
- and
- a cylinder block connected to the crank case;
- an air cleaner that purifies intake air to be supplied to the internal combustion engine;
- a breather tube that is connected to the crank case and the air cleaner and supplies a gas in the crank case toward the air cleaner;
- and
- a side stand located at a left side of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction,
- wherein:
- a connection portion between the breather tube and the crank case is located at a position that deviates from a left surface of the cylinder block toward the left side;
- and
- an opening of the breather tube which is located at the air cleaner side is located at a position that deviates from a left-right direction middle of the cylinder block toward a right side.
9 more elements
A vehicle comprising:
- an internal combustion engine used for traveling and including:
- a crank case;
- and
- a cylinder block connected to the crank case;
- an air cleaner that purifies intake air to be supplied to the internal combustion engine;
- a breather tube that is connected to the crank case and the air cleaner and supplies a gas in the crank case toward the air cleaner;
- and
- a side stand located at a first side of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction,
- wherein:
- a connection portion between the breather tube and the crank case is located at a position that deviates from a vehicle width direction middle of the cylinder block toward the first side in the vehicle width direction;
- an opening of the breather tube which is located at the air cleaner side is located at a position that deviates from the vehicle width direction middle of the cylinder block toward a second side in the vehicle width direction;
- and
- the breather tube includes a region extending from the connection portion between the breather tube and the crank case toward the air cleaner through a position that is located at the first side of an end surface of the cylinder block in the vehicle width direction and outside the end surface of the cylinder block, the end surface being located at the first side in the vehicle width direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.