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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2000
Yoshio Hosono, Saitama, JP;
Osamu Hasegawa, Saitama, JP;
Masaki Amakai, Saitama, JP;
Hideharu Takemoto, Saitama, JP;
Akihito Ohtsu, Saitama, JP;
Taichi Ogawa, Saitama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An air inlet is provided at the bottom of a vehicle to open downwardly. The air inlet is connected by a first tube to an air cooler for a PDU and a down converter. A fan for inputting the flow of air and turning its direction 90 degrees is connected at the downstream of the air cooler. The fan is further connected by a second tube to an exhaust outlet. The air inlet is located above a fuel tank thus to prevent any object jumping up from the road surface from straightforwardly entering the air inlet while the vehicle is running. The exhaust outlet is located above a silencer and can thus be prevented from being frozen in the winter. Using the above arrangement, the present invention embodies an air intaking and exhausting apparatus in an air cooling system for air cooling the PDU and the down converter at higher efficiency without the help of the air cooler mounted in the interior of the vehicle.