Air cleaner with low profile outlet duct connection
AssigneeFleetguard, Inc.
InventorsJon S. Wake, Donald E. Stiemke
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Abstract
An underhood air cleaner (10) includes a plastic housing (12) having an inlet (14) for receiving dirty air, a filter element (18) for filtering the air, and an outlet (42) for discharging clean filtered air. A plastic outlet duct (40) is butt welded (50) to the housing outlet (42) in axially non-overlapping relation, to eliminate axial overlap previously required for a hose clamp, to reduce the amount of underhood space required by an engine air cleaner in the axial direction.
Claims3
An underhood air cleaner for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine in an engine compartment covered by a hood, said air cleaner comprising:
- a plastic housing having:
- a housing inlet for receiving dirty air;
- a filter element for filtering said air;
- a housing outlet for discharging clean filtered air;
- a plastic outlet duct having:
- a duct inlet welded to said housing outlet;
- a duct outlet conveying air to said engine,
- each of said duct inlet and said duct outlet conveying clean filtered air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.