Air Separating Intake Scoop with Aperture for Particle Removal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional air intake systems often draw in warmer, less dense air from the engine compartment, reducing engine efficiency, and existing air scoops can direct water or particles into the engine's intake, causing blockages and damage.
Innovation Solution
An air separating intake scoop with a ramped surface and aperture to direct airflow upward while removing entrained particles, preventing them from entering the engine intake.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If an air scoop is used to direct fresh air toward the engine's air intake system, then cooler exterior air can be drawn into the engine, but water or particles can be directed to the engine's intake along with fresh air
Solution Approach 1:
The scoop surface includes an aperture that allows particles and water to pass through while permitting airflow. This porous opening acts as a filter that separates harmful entrained particles from the beneficial cool air, allowing the air to be drawn in while the particles fall through the aperture away from the engine intake.
2Device complexity
If air is drawn from inside the engine compartment, then the intake system is simpler, but warmer and less dense air is drawn in reducing engine efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the functions of an air scoop and a particle removal system into a single integrated component. The aperture in the scoop surface combines the air directing function with particle separation, eliminating the need for separate complex intake systems while providing both cooling and filtration benefits.
3Productivity
If a ramped surface is used to direct airflow upward, then cooler exterior air can be drawn into the engine, but entrained particles are also directed toward the engine intake
Solution Approach 1:
The aperture in the ramped surface allows entrained particles to fall through while permitting the airflow to continue upward toward the engine. This resolves the contradiction by allowing the ramped surface to maintain its productivity-enhancing cooling air flow while simultaneously preventing reliability issues from particle accumulation and blockage.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The air separating intake scoop effectively directs cooler, cleaner air into the engine, reducing blockages and potential damage, and potentially increasing the life of the engine's filter by removing dust particles.
Implementation Method 1
a ramped surface for directing at least a portion of the airflow admitted through the grille upward toward an air intake of the vehicle
Implementation Method 2
The ramped surface has an aperture defined therein for removing entrained particles from the portion of the airflow directed upward by the ramped surface
Data Source
AI summary
An air intake system for a vehicle includes a grille disposed at a forward end of the vehicle for admitting airflow into an engine compartment of the vehicle and a scoop having a ramped surface for directing at least a portion of the airflow admitted through the grille upward toward an air intake of the vehicle. The ramped surface has an aperture defined therein for removing entrained particles from the portion of the airflow directed upward by the ramped surface.