Silencer for outboard engine
AssigneeSanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasafumi Sougawa
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Abstract
An improved molded air inlet device such as an air silencer for an outboard motor that provides a very effective atmospheric air inlet area and which can be easily molded without restricting the flow into the device.
Claims4
An air inlet device for a machine that inducts atmospheric air through an inlet opening, said device being comprised of an outer housing defining a plenum chamber, an outlet from said outer housing lying in a plane at one side of said plenum chamber and communicating said plenum chamber with the machine inlet opening, a pair of inlet passageways to said plenum chamber extending at opposing angles divergently from the plane of said outlet and each having effective cross-sectional areas that do not decrease from an inlet end of the respective inlet passageways to a point where the respective inlet passageways communicate with the plenum chamber.
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