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US 7,406,958 B2Granted
Snow remover
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsFumiyoshi Kanbara, Nobuyuki Hirose
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Abstract
The snow remover has a cooling fan for directing cooling air to an engine, and an air cleaner. The air cleaner has an air intake for drawing in outside air. The cooling fan and the air intake of the air cleaner is housed within the engine cover. Cooling air is changed to warm air by the cooling of the engine body, and this warm air is guided towards the air intake of the air cleaner by a guide duct.
Claims20
A snow remover comprising:
- an engine body mounted on a machine body;
- a cooling fan provided at one side of the engine body and that cools the engine body by guiding cooling air directed from the cooling fan from the one side of the engine body over an upper side thereof to the other side of the engine body;
- an air cleaner having an air intake that draws in outside air and that is provided on the engine body;
- an engine cover that houses the air intake and protects the engine body;
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- a guide duct extending inside the engine cover from the upper side to a lower side of the engine body and that directs air guided to the other side of the engine body, and changed from cooling air to warm air, downward to a lower end of the guide duct and that discharges the warm air towards the air intake from a discharge vent provided at the lower end of the guide duct.
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A snow remover comprising:
- an engine;
- an air cleaner provided on the engine and having an air intake vent that faces downward for drawing in air;
- an engine cover that covers and houses the engine and the air intake vent, the engine cover having a bottom that has a discharge vent and an inlet vent both opening to outside the engine cover;
- a cooling fan that circulates cooling air drawn in from outside the engine cover at one side of the engine upwardly over the engine to the other side thereof opposite the one side to thereby cool the engine and warm the cooling air to warm air;
- and a guide duct disposed inside the engine cover and that guides the warm air from the other side of the engine downwardly through the discharge vent in a direction toward the inlet vent so that the discharged warm air re-enters the engine cover together with outside air through the inlet vent and is drawn into the air intake vent of the air cleaner.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.