Air intake device for two-wheeled motor vehicle

• US 7,264,072 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2005
• Issued: 09/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kawasaki Motors
• Original Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Eto, Atsushi, Yoshikawa, Kiyohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): WINNER, TONY H
• Application Number:
  US11/168,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20060027202A1
• Time in Patent Office: 797 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68.3, 180/219, 123/41.58, 123/41.62, 123/184.21, 123/198.E
• US Class Current: 180/68.3
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 61/02 for driving cycles
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/04 specially arranged with respect to engine , to intake system or specially adapted to vehicle; Mounting thereon ; Combinations with other devices combined with silencers F02M35/14
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10045 Multiple plenum chambers; Plenum chambers having inner separation walls for V-engines F02M35/116; for resonance charging F02B27/02
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/1266 comprising multiple chambers or compartments
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/162 Motorcycles; All-terrain vehicles, e.g. quads, snowmobiles; Small vehicles, e.g. forklifts

Abstract

In an air intake apparatus for a two-wheeled motor vehicle, a body frame of the vehicle includes a hollow head box and a pair of right and left hollow main frames extending rearwards from the right and left sides of the head box. An air intake duct is positioned in front of the head box, a front inlet of an air cleaner positioned behind the head box is connected to a rear outlet of the head box, and an inside of the head box is connected to insides of the mainframes. Preferably, insides of rear edges of the main frames communicate with each other through a hollow cross pipe.

Claims

1. An air intake device of a two-wheeled motor vehicle having a body frame including a hollow head box configured to support a steering handle and which is provided with a front opening, a side opening and a rear opening, each communicating fluidically with a hollow portion of the head box, the body frame further including a pair of right and left main frames each of which has a hollow portion, the right and left main frames being connected to right and left sides of the head box respectively so as to extend rearward, the air intake device comprising:

an air cleaner having a front inlet which is connected to the rear opening of the head box, wherein the air cleaner is disposed behind the head box; and

an air inlet duct having a front opening end which opens forward and having a rear opening end which is connected to the front opening of the head box,

wherein the hollow portion of each of the right and left main frames is connected to the side opening of the head box so as to communicate fluidically with the hollow portion of the head box.

2. The air intake device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow portion of one of the right and left main frames communicates fluidically with the hollow portion of the other of the right and left main frames through a hollow cross pipe of the body frame.

3. The air intake device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow portion of the head box and the hollow portion of each of the right and left main frames are separated by a partition wall with a communication path which communicates fluidically between the hollow portion of the head box and the hollow portion of each of the right and left main frames.

4. The air intake device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the communication path has a cross sectional area smaller than that of the partition wall.

5. The air intake device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the hollow portion of a rear part of one of the right and left main frames and the hollow portion of a rear part of the other of the right and left main frames, are blocked from each other by a blocking member.