Motor vehicles – Power – With means to guide and/or control air for power plant cooling
Patent
1998-07-22
2000-05-09
Camby, Richard M.
Motor vehicles
Power
With means to guide and/or control air for power plant cooling
180 684, B60K 1100
Patent
active
060590610
ABSTRACT:
In combination with a vehicle hood and windshield, an engine compartment, an engine in the compartment, and a heat radiator located to pass cooling air flowing toward the engine, the radiator having an air inlet side, that combination comprising a cooling air receiving plenum chamber located at the air inlet side of the radiator; air inlet ducting having an entrance proximate the windshield to receive air flowing over the vehicle hood; and at least one passage communicating with the air inlet ducting and the plenum chamber to deliver cooling air to the plenum chamber for flow through the radiator. One plenum chamber acts to recover air pressure for efficient direct application to the radiator.
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Economoff Peter P.
Love Charles V.
Camby Richard M.
Haefliger William W.
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