Patent ID: 8080075

Claim:
An intake system for sucking in combustion air for an internal combustion engine of a portable, manually-guided piece of equipment, comprising: two centrifugal separators, each having a centrifugal separator housing; and an air filter device having an air filter housing, the air filter housing bounding an air filter receiving space for an air filter, in which the combustion air is separated by means of the two centrifugal separators into a core volume stream and an outer volume stream, wherein the core volume stream is fed to the internal combustion engine through the air filter receiving space, each of the two centrifugal separator housings is arranged on the air filter housing such that each of the two centrifugal separator housings ends directly at the air filter receiving space or projects directly into the air filter receiving space, the two centrifugal separators consist of a first centrifugal separator and a second centrifugal separator, an axial main flow direction, of a dip tube of the first centrifugal separator and of a dip tube of the second centrifugal separator, is essentially aligned with an axial main extent of the air filter receiving space, the dip tube of the first centrifugal separator and the dip tube of the second centrifugal separator are formed as an axial conducting device for the core volume stream, by means of which the core volume stream is conducted axially from a corresponding one of the first centrifugal separator and the second centrifugal separator to the air filter receiving space without being deflected, and the two centrifugal separator housings and the air filter housing are formed as a single-piece covering hood of the piece of equipment.