Cooling fan shroud mounted on an engine vehicle

Patent · Tue Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6888926

Yamaguchi, Y; Yamaguchi, T; Nagata, H

This patent describes an easily removable cooling fan shroud adapted to be mounted between an engine and a radiator of an engine vehicle, comprising a rigid engine mounting, a rigid radiator mounting, and a flexible member formed as a circular cylindrical bellows normally extending between and connecting the engine mounting and the radiator mounting; wherein the bellows is spaced and separated from free ends of blades of a cooling fan, and the bellows extends from the radiator mounting to substantially a plane of rotation of the cooling fan and the bellows is axially compressible for removal of the cooling fan shroud through a space between the radiator and the cooling fan, lower portions of the engine mounting and the radiator mounting being engageable by slidably releasable U-shaped hook means with supports projecting from the engine and the radiator, upper portions of the engine mounting and the radiator being secureable to the engine and the radiator by means of bolts.

• Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho, Kariya
• Patent Number(s): US 4774911
• OSTI ID: 6888926
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ENGINES
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
JOINTS
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
OPERATION
RADIATORS
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