Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Gunji Saitoh

Tomomi Nakaya

Masafumi Araki

Akira Amano

Masayuki Ota

Tsuyoshi Kawabata

Yasushi Suganuma

Hiroaki Shinoki

Yasunori Sakamoto

Shinjirou Konno

A riding lawn mower comprises a frame supported by wheels, a mower housing carried at the underside of the frame, a plurality of cutter blades located within the mower housing to cut grass, a collection bag mounted on the rear of the frame, a discharge chute extending between the mower housing and the collection bag and defining a clipping path from the cutter blades into the collection bag, a blower including an impeller housing attached to the mower housing and an impeller located within the impeller housing and cooperating with the butter blades to convey the grass clippings into the collection bag through the discharge chute. A short conduit connects the impeller housing to the upstream end of the discharge chute to conduct an air generated by the impeller into the discharge chute. A central axis of the conduit is offset downwardly from a central axis of the discharge chute.

Lawn mower with blower

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Saitama, Japan

Gunji Saitoh