Portable engine operated machine

• US 20060065216A1
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Takao, Sugimoto, Yasuhiro, Takemura, Kazuhito, Yaguchi, Tadahiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,146,962 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 123/41.700
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 5/06 Guiding or ducting air to, or from, ducted fans
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/04 for electric generators

Abstract

A portable engine generator, has a box-shaped case defining an internal space for holding an engine and an electric generator to be driven by the engine. The case is provided with carrying handles. The portable engine generator is provided with a cooling air passage through which fresh air as cooling air flows into the internal space while the engine is in operation. An inward depressed part is formed in a front cover of the case on the side of the internal space with respect to the carrying handles The carrying handles and the inward depressed part define the cooling air passage. The cooling air passage serves as a hand space into which human hand is inserted to grip the carrying handles.

Claims

1. A portable engine operated machine comprising:

an engine, a working machine to be driven for operation by the engine, a box-shaped case defining an internal space for holding the engine and the working machine therein and provided with a cooling air passage through which fresh air as cooling air flows into the internal space, and a carrying handle;

wherein the case has, adjacent the carrying handle, a part of an end part thereof depressed inward to form a depressed part lying on an inner side of the handle toward the internal space and defining a recess, the depressed part and the carrying handle define the cooling air passage, and the cooling air passage forms a hand space into which a human hand may be inserted to grip the carrying handle.

2. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 1, wherein the carrying handle has an outer side part, a vertical part extending vertically downward and a lower end part extending inward from a lower end of the vertical part, and the cooling air passage is formed in a labyrinthine shape by the carrying handle and the depressed part.

3. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 1, wherein the carrying handle is provided on each of opposite end parts of the case, the cooling air passage has an inlet extending under the carrying handle, and the carrying handle and the cooling air passage are formed so as to extend between laterally opposite ends of each end part of the case.

4. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 1, wherein the cooling air passage is formed in an upper part of an end wall of the case.

5. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 4, wherein the carrying handle is placed on two opposite end parts of the case on opposite sides of the engine and the working machine, in such a manner that a pair of said cooling air passages are defined at two end walls of the case.

6. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 1, wherein the carrying handle has an upper part, a vertical part extending downward from the upper part, and a lower end part extending into the case from the vertical part

7. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 1, wherein the cooling air passage is formed in each of upper parts of opposite end walls of the case, the depressed part has an inclined part extending obliquely upward so as to tilt toward the internal space in the case, and a vertical part extending upward from an inner end of the inclined part.

8. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 1, wherein said working machine is an electric generator, a fuel pressure regulator is disposed in an upper part of the internal space of the case adjacent an end wall, and a power control unit is disposed below the fuel pressure regulator, the cooling air taken into the case through the cooling air passage flowing first toward the fuel pressure regulator.

9. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 1, wherein a fuel storage chamber for holding fuel containers is formed in a part of the internal space of the case, adjacent an end wall of the case, and a heat exchange means is placed in the fuel storage chamber, for heat exchange between the fuel containers and a power control unit within case.

10. A portable engine operated machine comprising:

an engine, a working machine to be driven for operation by the engine, a box-shaped case defining an internal space for holding the engine and the working machine therein and provided with a cooling air passage through which fresh air as cooling air flows into the internal space, and a carrying handle;

wherein the carrying handle and an and wall of the case define the cooling air passage, and a part of the internal space of the case and the cooling air passage form a hand space into which a human hand is inserted to grip the carrying handle.

11. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 10, wherein the cooling air passage is formed in a labyrinth shape.

12. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 10, wherein the carrying handle is provided on each of opposite end parts of the case, the cooling air passage has an inlet extending under the carrying handle, and the carrying handle and the cooling air passage are formed so as to extend between laterally opposite ends of each end part of the case.

13. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 10, wherein the cooling air passage is formed in an upper part of an end wall of the case.

14. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 13, wherein the carrying handle is placed on two opposite end parts of the case on opposite sides of the engine and the working machine, in such a manner that a pair of said cooling air passages are defined at two end walls of the case.

15. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 10, wherein the carrying handle has an upper part, a vertical part extending downward from the upper part, and a lower end part extending into the case from the vertical part.

16. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 10, wherein the cooling air passage is formed in each of upper parts of opposite end walls of the case, the depressed part has an inclined part extending obliquely upward so as to tilt toward the internal space in the case, and a vertical part extending upward from an inner end of the inclined part.

17. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 10, wherein said working machine is an electric generator, a fuel pressure regulator is disposed in an upper part of the internal space of the case adjacent an end wall, and a power control unit is disposed below the fuel pressure regulator, the cooling air taken into the case through the cooling air pressure flowing first toward the fuel pressure regulator.

18. The portable engine operated machine according to claim 10, wherein a fuel storage chamber for holding fuel containers is formed in a part of the internal space of the case, adjacent an end wall of the case, and a heat exchange means is placed in the fuel chamber, for heat exchange between the fuel containers and a power control unit case.