Patent ID: 8590651

Claim:
An intake system installed in an engine compartment of a front portion of a vehicle in which an engine and a battery are arranged in a width direction of the vehicle, the intake system comprising: an air cleaner located at a rear side of the battery in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and an intake duct located to extend from the air cleaner to the forward, the intake duct comprising: a horizontal portion having a front end and a rear end in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and located to extend in the front-rear direction of the vehicle to be opposite to a top face of the battery; and a vertical portion extending curvedly from the front end of the horizontal portion and extending downward in a height direction of the vehicle along a front face of the battery, the vertical portion being formed with an air intake at a bottom thereof in the height direction of the vehicle, the air intake being located at a front side of the battery in the front-rear direction of the vehicle to be higher in the height direction of the vehicle than a bottom edge of the front face of the battery, an opening of the air intake being directed downward in the height direction of the vehicle.