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Wind flux concentration guiding device and engine room layout thereof

  • US 8,893,835 B2
  • Filed: 11/11/2011
  • Issued: 11/25/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wind flux concentration guiding device, wherein wind passing through a radiator grill disposed at the top of a front end part forming a front portion of an engine room is introduced and configured to be discharged to two different parts of an intake system disposed in the engine room, wind flowing to a bumper portion disposed at the bottom of the front end part is introduced and configured to be discharged to any one of the two different parts, and one of the two different parts of the intake system is an intercooler that cools oversupplied air from a turbocharger and the other one is an air intake that introduces external air, the wind flux concentration guiding device comprising:

  • a main duct that has an inlet close to the radiator grill to introduce the wind passing through the radiator grill and an outlet positioned at the top of the intercooler;

    a sub-duct that allows the wind to flow through at least one or more positions to introduce the wind flowing to the bumper portion; and

    a diverging duct that is connected to a wind channel of the main duct to diverge some of the wind introduced into the main duct before the wind passes out of the outlet of the main duct, and send the diverged wind to the air intake;

    wherein the main duct is an open channel inclined at an angle with the inlet disposed higher than the outlet;

    wherein the sub-duct is an open channel having a lower intake duct and an upper intake duct protruding at a distance from each other at a side to introduce the wind flowing to the bumper portion and discharge the wind to cool the intercooler;

    wherein the diverging duct is an open channel connected to the wind channel of the main duct; and

    wherein the upper intake duct of the sub-duct and the diverging duct have different inlet cross-sections and outlet cross-sections to have funnel-shaped cross-sections.

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