US 4,595,841 AGranted

Full-covered portable generator

AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorTadahiro Yaguchi

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Abstract

A full-covered portable generator composed of a generator core, an engine for driving the generator core enclosed by a cover comprising discrete front, rear and bottom cover elements. The rear cover element is detachably joined to the rear cover element along lateral peripheral surfaces of the generator. The engine and its main components are each covered at least in part by the front cover element in a manner that they are exposed when the rear cover element is detached from the front cover element, for facilitation of the maintenance thereof. Various controls and readouts or displays are arranged on the front cover element transversely of the generator, preferably in an order corresponding to the required order in which they are operated or read. A carrying handle is arranged on an upper surface of the front cover element and extends transversely of the generator.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A full-covered portable generator having a bottom portion, a front portion, a rear portion, and a lateral peripheral portion between said front portion and said rear portion, said generator comprising:

an engine having an obliquely disposed cylinder section;
a plurality of components for said engine juxtaposed to said cylinder section;
a generator core driven by said engine;
a plurality of control means for controlling said engine and said generator core;
a bottom cover element formed of steel plate covering the bottom portion of said generator and comprising a base for supporting said engine and said generator core;
a molded front cover element covering the front portion of said generator and having an opening therein, said control means being located on said front cover element;
and a rear cover element covering said rear portion of said generator, said rear cover element being detachably joined to said front cover element along a vertical joining plane therebetween at said lateral peripheral portion of said generator such that said front cover element and said rear cover element are horizontally separable at said vertical joining plane, each of said cylinder section of said engine and said engine components having at least a portion thereof disposed within said rear cover element.

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Facts

Application: 06/590,610Filed 19 Mar 1984
Priority: JP 58-4559018 Mar 1983
Granted: 17 Jun 1986
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

F02B 63/04
Adaptations of engines for driving pumps, hand-held tools or electric generators; Portable combinations of engines with engine-driven devices: for…
F02B 75/16
Other engines: engines characterised by number of cylinders, e.g. single-cylinder engines
F02B 63/048
The engine-generator unit being placed on a frame or in an housing: portable engine-generator combinations
F02B 2063/045
The engine-generator unit being placed on a frame or in an housing: frames for generator-engine sets