Engine cooling system for rear-engine vehicle

• US 20030183432A1
• Filed: 03/25/2003
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Masami
• Application Number:
  US10/396,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20030183432A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/68.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 11/08 Air inlets for cooling; Shutters or blinds therefor radiator or grille guards B60R19/52
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 3/18 Arrangements or mounting of liquid-to-air heat-exchangers such arrangements on cylinders or cylinder heads F01P3/04; relative to vehicles B60K11/04
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 5/06 Guiding or ducting air to, or from, ducted fans

Abstract

An engine cooling system (4) for a rear-engine vehicle in which an engine (1) is installed in a rear part of a vehicle body is made to have an inlet opening (5) formed in a side of the vehicle body, an outlet opening opened rearward or downward in the rear part of the vehicle, a duct (7, 10) for forming an air flow path between the inlet opening and the outlet opening, and a radiator (11) provided at an intermediate portion of the duct.

Claims

1. An engine cooling system for a rear-engine vehicle in which an engine is installed in a rear part of a vehicle body, comprising:

an inlet opening formed in a side of the vehicle body;

an outlet opening opened to at least one of rearward and downward in the rear part of the vehicle;

a duct formed between said inlet opening and said outlet opening for defining an air flow path; and

a radiator provided at an intermediate portion of said duct.

2. The engine cooling system for a rear-engine vehicle as set forth in claim 1, wherein said radiator is arranged such that an air receiving surface thereof faces the side of the vehicle body, and

wherein a guide member for guiding airflows to said air receiving surface is provided in the interior of said duct.

3. The engine cooling system for a rear-engine vehicle as set forth in claim 1, wherein a grating member is provided at said outlet opening.

4. The engine cooling system for a rear-engine vehicle as set forth in claim 1, wherein said engine cooling system is installed within a rear fender.

5. The engine cooling system for a rear-engine vehicle as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a valve member for opening and closing said outlet opening opened rearward.

6. The engine cooling system for a rear-engine vehicle as set forth in claim 1, wherein the engine cooling system is installed in an upper part of a wheel house inside a rear fender.