Vehicle engine
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Kawakubo, Toru Gunji, Hiroshi Nakagome, Toshihisa Nagashii
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Abstract
To facilitate attachment/detachment work of an oil filter in a vehicle engine without increasing an outer dimension thereof, and to provide a uniform a supply of engine oil into an engine body. An oil filter is attached onto a front portion of the engine body so as to be detachable in a vehicle body width direction from a side face of the engine body. An exhaust pipe on a side on which an oil filter is attached is displaced to a center side in the vehicle body width direction so as not to overlap the oil filter when viewed from a front of the engine body.
Claims18
A vehicle engine including a plurality of exhaust pipes which are curved downwardly from a front wall of a cylinder body, pass in front of and below a crankcase, and extend rearwardly of an engine body, in which an oil filter is attached onto a front portion of the engine body to be detachable in a vehicle body width direction from a side face of the engine body comprising:
- the exhaust pipe on a side on which the oil filter is attached is displaced to a central portion in the vehicle body width direction so as not to overlap the oil filter when viewed from a front of the engine body.
An opening for attaching an oil filter on a vehicle engine comprising:
- a plurality of exhaust pipes curved downwardly from a front wall of the vehicle engine and passing in front of and below a crankcase and extending rearwardly of an vehicle engine;
- an opening for attaching an oil filter, said opening being disposed on a side portion of the vehicle engine;
- an exhaust pipe on a side of the opening for attaching the oil filter is displaced to a central portion relative to the vehicle engine so as not to overlap the oil filter when viewed from a front of the vehicle engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.