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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1995
Toyoda Boshoku Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Nippondenso Co, Ltd., Kariya, JP;
Abstract
An air cleaner for use in an intake air passage connected to an engine of a vehicle, including a housing separable into two housings, a filter element received in one of the two housings, a sealing member for sealing contact with a sealing surface of the other housing, and a hinge device for rotatably connecting the two housings to each other, the hinge device including a receiving member having a receiving opening, and an axis member for being received in the receiving member through the receiving opening, the axis and receiving members being displaceable relative to each other substantially along a plane in which the sealing member extends, the air cleaner further including a clamp device cooperating with the hinge device to secure the two housings to each other, and a protector including two abutting portions, the protector allowing the sealing surface and the sealing member to be brought into the sealing contact with each other when the axis member is positioned at a hinging position in the receiving member, and inhibiting the sealing surface and the sealing member from being brought into the sealing contact with each other, by abutment of the two abutting portions thereof, when the axis member is not positioned at the hinging position, the protector including, as the two abutting portions thereof, a portion of one of the two housings and a portion of the other housing, respectively.