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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 35/10 (2006.01); F02B 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 35/10157 (2013.01); F02B 29/0406 (2013.01); F02M 35/10242 (2013.01);
Abstract
A bottom surface of a surge tank has such a shape that, in a vehicle-mounted state, the bottom surface is positioned below a lower surface at an upstream end of each of a plurality of independent passages and comes closer to the lower surface at the upstream end of each of the plurality of independent passages in a vertical direction farther away from a connected portion between the surge tank and a third passage in a cylinder array direction.