Motor vehicles – Power – Radiators and condensers – mounting
Patent
1981-06-22
1983-11-29
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
Power
Radiators and condensers, mounting
165122, 180 54A, 474 12, 474113, 474114, B60H 124
Patent
active
044176368
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a vehicle having a liquid-cooled engine (20) transversely mounted for rocking motion relative to the vehicle frame (42); an engine cooling radiator (22) mounted forwardly of the engine and substantially parallel to the rotation axis of the engine crankshaft; a cross-flow fan (24) having a rotational axis substantially parallel to the crankshaft axis and disposed between the crankshaft axis and the plane of the radiator; the fan is engine driven by a belt (36), and a viscous coupling (29) to vary the fan speed in response to engine cooling requirements. In one embodiment the engine moves relative to the fan and the radiator. In this embodiment an air inlet duct assembly (40) is defined by a portion (26a) of the engine and members extending from the radiator to the engine. In the other embodiment the fan is fixed for movement with the engine and an air inlet duct assembly (126) allows movement between the fan and the radiator.
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Eaton Corporation
Grace C. H.
Hill Mitchell J.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Rulon P. S.
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