Engine enclosure
CA 2242104 C · Owner: Peters, Michael Dennis · Inventors: Peters, Michael Dennis; O'Neill, Michael Jerome
Overview
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A modular engine enclosure comprised of a hood and baffle is provided to channel, cooling air along passages formed between their adjacent surfaces to the radiator of a water, cooled engine. The passages provide acoustic air barriers and along with selected, enclosure surfaces covered with sound absorbing foam serve to contain engine , sounds, within the enclosure. The passages receive air from a generally upright inlet opening and, direct it evenly over the top surface of the horizontally oriented radiator. After being drawn, through the radiator the air is exhausted generally horizontally out the back of the engine, compartment. The modular construction of the enclosure allows it to …
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- Filed August 5, 1998 and granted May 28, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 5, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 5, 2020.
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