Off-road vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Motors, Ltd.
InventorsTakahiro JYOUZAKI, Kengo SHIMATANI
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Abstract
An off-road vehicle includes: a supercharger including an outflow tubular portion including an outflow port; an intercooler including an intercooler core and an inlet tank that includes an inlet tubular portion and is adjacent to one side of the intercooler core in a width direction; and an upstream intake duct connecting the outflow tubular portion of the supercharger to the inlet tank of the intercooler. The outflow tubular portion of the supercharger, the inlet tubular portion of the intercooler, and the upstream intake duct are located at a first side of a vertical center line of the intercooler.
Claims15
An off-road vehicle comprising:
- a supercharger including
- a pressurization rotating body,
- an accommodating portion that defines a pressurizing space accommodating the pressurization rotating body, and
- an outflow tubular portion including an outflow port communicating with the pressurizing space;
- an intercooler including
- an intercooler core and
- an inlet tank that includes an inlet tubular portion and is adjacent to one side of the intercooler core in a width direction;
- and
- an upstream intake duct connecting the outflow tubular portion of the supercharger to the inlet tank of the intercooler, wherein:
- one side of a vertical center line, which passes through a width-direction center of the intercooler and extends in a vertical direction, in the width direction is referred to as a first side, and the other side of the vertical center line in the width direction is referred to as a second side;
- and
- the outflow tubular portion of the supercharger, the inlet tubular portion of the intercooler, and the upstream intake duct are located at the first side of the vertical center line.
An off-road vehicle comprising:
- a supercharger including
- a pressurization rotating body,
- an accommodating portion that defines a pressurizing space accommodating the pressurization rotating body, and
- an outflow tubular portion including an outflow port communicating with the pressurizing space;
- an intercooler including
- an intercooler core,
- an inlet tank that includes an inlet tubular portion and is adjacent to one side of the intercooler core in a width direction, and
- an outlet tank that includes an outlet tubular portion and is adjacent to the other side of the intercooler core in the width direction;
- an intake tank including
- a tank portion that defines an intake chamber and
- an inflow tubular portion that protrudes from the tank portion and includes an inflow port communicating with the intake chamber;
- an upstream intake duct connecting the outflow tubular portion of the supercharger to the inlet tank of the intercooler;
- and
- a downstream intake duct that connects the outlet tubular portion of the outlet tank of the intercooler to the inflow tubular portion of the intake tank, wherein
- the outflow tubular portion of the supercharger is located closer to the inlet tubular portion of the intercooler than to the outlet tubular portion of the intercooler in the width direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.