Compact cab-over equipped with a cooler condenser

• US 4,111,275 A
• Filed: 12/15/1976
• Issued: 09/05/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Moriya, Makoto, Masuda, Joji
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, David M.
• Application Number:
  US05/750,621
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68 R, 180/54 A, 296/28 C, 62/239, 62/244, 123/41.48, 123/41.49, 123/41.51, 165/51, 165/41
• US Class Current: 180/68.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/3227 characterised by the arrangement or the type of heat exchanger, e.g. condenser, evaporator condensed liquid drainage means B60H1/3233
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 11/00 Arrangement in connection with cooling of propulsion units heating the interior space B60H; cooling internal combustion engines per se F01P
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 11/04 Arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds B60K11/085 takes precedence

Abstract

A cab-over is equipped with a cooler condenser disposed under the cab floor and spaced forwards from a radiator for an engine mounted under the cab. The condenser has a core face thereof slanted forwards or backwards by a predetermined angle from the vertical of the vehicle. With this arrangement, the effect of relatively hot air passed through the condenser to the radiator has been minimized and sufficient relatively cool air passing through the radiator for preventing of overheat of the engine has been secured.

Claims

1. In an automotive vehicle with a cab at the front, a radiator for an engine for propelling the vehicle mounted within an engine compartment disposed under and separated from said cab by a cab floor;

a condenser for a refrigeration device mounted within the engine compartment at an area disposed forward from said radiator with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and slanted from a perpendicular plane transverse to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle by a predetermined angle, said condenser having an electric fan and a shroud means for securing a sufficient amount of air passing therethrough;

said condenser being disposed laterally of the radiator and on an opposite side of the engine compartment to a side over which a steering wheel of the vehicle is disposed;

said condenser being arranged and slanted so that when in operation of the vehicle a sufficient amount of ambient atmosphere required by said radiator will flow toward said radiator without passing through said condenser.

2. The combination as claimed in claim 1, in which the predetermined angle is within the range from 30°

to 80°

.