Air inlet apparatus for internal combustion engine

• US 5,526,777 A
• Filed: 10/06/1994
• Issued: 06/18/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kioritz Corporation (Yamabiko Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kioritz Corporation (Yamabiko Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogata, Tsutomu, Koga, Hiroaki, Nagao, Yoshiaki, Taomo, Toshio, Kawasaki, Hiroji
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamen, Noah P.
• Application Number:
  US08/319,115
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 123/41.56, 123/41.65, 123/41.7, 123/198 E, 55/337, 55/357, 55/392, 55/437, 55/473, 55/DIG. 14, 55/DIG. 28
• US Class Current: 123/41.65
• CPC Class Codes: B27B 17/00 Chain saws; Equipment therefor slotting or mortising machines equipped with chain cutters B27F5/06
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 1/04 with fuel-air mixture admission into cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/02 for hand-held tools
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/022 acting by gravity, by centrifugal, or by other inertial forces, e.g. with moistened walls
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/06 combined or associated with engine's cooling blower or fan, or with flywheel
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/08 with means for removing dust, particles or liquids from cleaners; with means for indicating clogging; with by-pass means; Regeneration of cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/14 Inertia separator
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/28 Carburetor attached

Abstract

An air path is provided in the main body of a chain saw so as to connect an air inlet port provided on the main body and a carburetor chamber of the internal combustion engine and also connected to a cooling fan chamber. For use under normal conditions, combustion air is taken from the air inlet port into the carburetor chamber. In case of a rainy or snowy day, the air inlet port is closed and combustion air is taken from the cooling chamber into the carburetor chamber, air control means is provided between the air path and the cooling fan chamber. This air control means generates stagnation of air flow in the cooling chamber in order to supply air into the carburetor chamber and prevent dust and the like from being taken into the air path.

Claims

1. In a working tool having an internal combustion engine and a main body housing a carburetor in a carburetor chamber and a cooling fan in a fan chamber comprising:

an air path communicating with the carburetor chamber, an air inlet port provided in said main body communicating with said carburetor chamber and the inlet side of said cooling fan chamber;

a filter provided between said air path and said carburetor chamber in order to purify air supplied to said carburetor chamber;

means for opening and closing said air path at the upstream side of said filter; and

air control means comprising a closing plate having an air hole, said control means being provided on the part connecting said air path and said cooling fan chamber so as to occlude each thereof, a guide plate fixed to said closing plate at the base thereof and formed so as to gradually extend from said closing plate to the tip thereof having an open space between the tip part of said guide plate and said closing plate communicating with said air hole and being opened toward the rotating direction of said cooling fan in said cooling fan chamber.

3. An air inlet apparatus described in claims 1 or 2, wherein said air control means is freely attachable to and removable from a cover forming said fan chamber.

2. An air inlet apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprising:

a main body defining a chamber for a cooling fan and a chamber for a carburetor;

an air inlet port provided on the upper part of the main body;

a first air path communicating with said air inlet port and extending downwardly inside said main body;

a second air path connecting said first air path an inlet side of said cooling fan chamber;

a filter provided along said first air path in order to purify air supplied to said carburetor chamber;

means provided at the upstream side of said filter in order to open and close said first air path; and

air control means comprising a closing plate having an air hole and provided on the part connecting said air path and said cooling fan chamber so as to occlude each thereof, and a guide plate fixed to said closing plate at the base thereof and formed so as to gradually extend from said closing plate to the tip thereof forming an open space between said tip of said guide plate and said closing plate connected to said air hole and being opened toward the rotating direction of said cooling fan in said cooling fan chamber.