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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Akio Umeoka, Saitama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To improve the durability of an air cleaner against water and dirt sucked in from a drain hole. An air cleaner includes an air cleaner element and a case cover. The inside of the air cleaner is partitioned into a clean room and a dirty room by an air cleaner element, and is aligned in a widthwise direction of the vehicle. The dirty room communicates with the atmosphere through an intake hole provided at an upper section, and a drain hole and a drain pipe are provided in a bottom wall section. A rib for supporting a lower end of the air cleaner element is provided above the bottom floor section, and is arranged so as to cross an extension of the axis of the drain pipe. Water and dirt that are sucked into the dirty room through the drainpipe and the drain hole by negative pressure inside the air cleaner have difficulty coming into direct contact with the air cleaner element because of the rib acting as a baffle plate.