Air intake chamber for saddled vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyuki Watanabe, Hisatoyo Arima, Satoaki Ichi, Yoshinobu Tanaka
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Abstract
An air intake chamber is disposed at a location downstream of a supercharger and upstream of a throttle body. The air intake chamber serves to accumulate an intake air pressurized by the supercharger. This air intake chamber includes a confronting portion, which has an outlet and overlaps the throttle body, and a connecting portion that connects between the confronting portion and a discharge port of the supercharger. The connecting portion has an outlet side opening set to be larger than an inlet side opening thereof.
Claims12
An air intake chamber for a saddle-riding type vehicle, which chamber is disposed downstream of a discharge port of a supercharger, which is operable to pressurize and supply an intake air to an engine, and upstream of a throttle body to control the amount of intake air to be supplied to an air intake port of the engine, which chamber comprises:
- a confronting portion having an outlet of the air intake chamber and facing the throttle body;
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- a connecting portion to connect the confronting portion and the discharge port of the supercharger, the connecting portion having an outlet side opening that is set to be larger than an inlet side opening, wherein
- the connecting portion has a transverse width that gradually increases from the inlet side opening towards the outlet side opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.