Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Kenzi Ikuta

Minoru Honda

Akihide Yamaguchi

Toshiaki Fukuta

A supporting structure for supporting an air-cleaner assembly on a throttle body of an internal combustion engine provided with a fuel injector arranged at a center of an intake passage. A bridge member has at least two legs. The leg has one end fixed to the throttle body and the other end extending radially inwardly toward a central axis of the intake passage formed in the throttle body. The other ends of the legs are joined to each other at a joining portion. The joining portion is abutted against an end of the fuel injector opposite to a fuel injection port thereof. A fixing device cooperates with the bridge member to fix the air-cleaner assembly with respect to the throttle body.

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Hekinan, Japan

Kenzi Ikuta