US 12,110,838 B2
Cover for automobile engine
Yuan Shi, Osaka (JP); Daiki Mokude, Aichi (JP); Koji Tomiyama, Aichi (JP); Koki Kaneda, Aichi (JP); Kazuyoshi Onishi, Aichi (JP); Hiroki Taguchi, Aichi (JP); and Yasuo Suzuki, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, Aichi (JP)
Filed by Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, Aichi (JP)
Filed on Feb. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/581,347.
Application 18/581,347 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/036108, filed on Sep. 28, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-163505 (JP), filed on Oct. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0191671 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. F02F 7/00 (2006.01); B60K 5/12 (2006.01); B60K 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC F02F 7/008 (2013.01) [B60K 5/1241 (2013.01); B60K 5/04 (2013.01); F02F 2007/0041 (2013.01); F02F 2007/0078 (2013.01); F02F 7/0085 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cover for an automobile engine, which is a cover that covers a crank pulley and an auxiliary drive belt of an engine arranged in an engine room with the crank pulley and the auxiliary drive belt being in a posture facing a front direction of a vehicle body, the cover comprising:
a reinforcing body that comprises a fastening part attaching to the engine and is integrated with a sound-absorbing main body, wherein
the reinforcing body is formed in a cross shape as a whole comprising a longitudinally-long part that is long in a cylinder bore axis direction as viewed from a crank axis direction and a laterally-long part that is long in a direction crossing the cylinder bore axis direction as viewed from the crank axis direction, and the fastening part is provided at both ends of the longitudinally-long part and both ends of the laterally-long part of the reinforcing body.