Full-covered portable generator

• US 4,595,841 A
• Filed: 03/19/1984
• Issued: 06/17/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Yaguchi, Tadahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ip, Shik Luen Paul
• Application Number:
  US06/590,610
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• Field of Search: 290/1 A, 290/1 B, 290/1 C, 310/47, 310/50, 310/89, 322/1, D13/1, D13/2, D13/3, D15/1, 123/2, 307/150
• US Class Current: 290/1.00A
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2063/045 Frames for generator-engine sets
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2063/046 Handles adapted therefor, e.g. handles or grips for movable units
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/04 for electric generators
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/048 Portable engine-generator combinations
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 75/16 Engines characterised by number of cylinders, e.g. single-cylinder engines F02B75/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02F 7/006 Camshaft or pushrod housings
• CPC Class Codes: F05C 2201/021 Aluminium

Abstract

A full-covered portable generator composed of a generator core, an engine for driving the generator core enclosed by a cover comprising discrete front, rear and bottom cover elements. The rear cover element is detachably joined to the rear cover element along lateral peripheral surfaces of the generator. The engine and its main components are each covered at least in part by the front cover element in a manner that they are exposed when the rear cover element is detached from the front cover element, for facilitation of the maintenance thereof. Various controls and readouts or displays are arranged on the front cover element transversely of the generator, preferably in an order corresponding to the required order in which they are operated or read. A carrying handle is arranged on an upper surface of the front cover element and extends transversely of the generator.

Claims

1. A full-covered portable generator having a bottom portion, a front portion, a rear portion, and a lateral peripheral portion between said front portion and said rear portion, said generator comprising:

an engine having an obliquely disposed cylinder section;

a plurality of components for said engine juxtaposed to said cylinder section;

a generator core driven by said engine;

a plurality of control means for controlling said engine and said generator core;

a bottom cover element formed of steel plate covering the bottom portion of said generator and comprising a base for supporting said engine and said generator core;

a molded front cover element covering the front portion of said generator and having an opening therein, said control means being located on said front cover element; and

a rear cover element covering said rear portion of said generator, said rear cover element being detachably joined to said front cover element along a vertical joining plane therebetween at said lateral peripheral portion of said generator such that said front cover element and said rear cover element are horizontally separable at said vertical joining plane, each of said cylinder section of said engine and said engine components having at least a portion thereof disposed within said rear cover element.

2. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said front cover element is formed of a die casting of an aluminum base alloy.

3. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 1, further including a fuel tank for storing fuel for said engine, said fuel tank comprising a cap-shaped hollow portion formed integrally with an inner surface of said front cover element at an upper portion thereof and having an opening facing towards the rear of said generator, and a cap-shaped hollow member having an opening joined with said opening of said cap-shaped hollow portion to define a fuel tank space therein.

4. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rear cover element is formed of a heat resistant synthetic resin.

5. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 1, further including a carrying handle formed integrally with said front cover element, said carrying handle extending transversely of said generator along said vertical joining plane of said front and rear cover elements.

6. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 4, wherein said control means include a recoil starter control, a plurality of display means, control means for starting and stopping said engine, and terminal means for providing outputs from said generator;

wherein said front cover element has a sloped front side wall disposed at an upper portion of said generator and forwardly upwardly inclined when said generator is disposed horizontally, and opposite lateral side walls located at opposite sides of said sloped front side wall and continuous therewith; and

wherein said recoil starter control and said display are arranged on said sloped front side wall, said control means is disposed on one of said opposite lateral side walls, and said terminal means are arranged on the other of said opposite lateral side walls.

7. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 4, wherein said sloped front side wall extends in the direction in which said carrying handle extends, said recoil starter control and said display means being juxtaposed in the direction of extension of said carrying handle.

8. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 7, wherein said display means include a pilot lamp for indicating whether or not said engine is in an operative state, and an output meter for indicating the frequency of the outputs of said generator.

9. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said generator has opposite lateral side surfaces and a ceiling surface between said opposite lateral side surfaces, said lateral peripheral portion of said generator circumferentially extending along said opposite lateral side surfaces and said ceiling surface.

10. A full-covered portable generator as claimed in claim 5, including a guard frame member on said sloped front side wall of said front cover element and extending transversely of said generator.