Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Straddle vehicle and radiator air-guide device
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Application No.: US15993337Application Date: 2018-05-30
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Publication No.: US10247083B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Satoshi Morotomi , Hideaki Kawai , Tetsuji Yamamoto
- Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kobe-shi
- Agency: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP
- Priority: JP2017-159337 20170822
- Main IPC: B60K11/04
- IPC: B60K11/04 ; F01P5/06 ; B60K13/04 ; B62J17/00 ; B62K11/00

Abstract:
A straddle vehicle is capable of discharging high-temperature outdoor air having passed through a radiator with high efficiency. A motorcycle 1 includes a radiator, a fan, and a fan shroud. The radiator lowers the temperature of a coolant by heat exchange between outdoor air and the coolant. The fan suctions outdoor air, to make the outdoor air hit the radiator arranged upstream in an outdoor air flow direction. The fan shroud covers at least part of the fan, and discharges high-temperature outdoor air, which is outdoor air suctioned by the fan and having passed through the radiator, to outside. The fan shroud has a discharge opening and an air guide. The discharge opening allows the high-temperature outdoor air to be discharged outside. The air guide guides the high-temperature outdoor air such that it is discharged through the discharge opening in a direction including a laterally outward component.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190063301A1 Straddle Vehicle and Radiator Air-Guide Device Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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