Patent ID: 7032556

Claim:
An intake arrangement for an internal combustion engine, comprising: an intake manifold comprising: an intake collector disposed above an engine body of the engine; a plurality of branch pipes extending from the intake collector to an intake side of the engine body above the engine body in a curved state, the plurality of branch pipes extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the intake collector and being arranged with space between adjacent ones of the plurality of branch pipes; and a connecting wall disposed between the plurality of branch pipes so as to cover the space between the adjacent ones of the plurality of branch pipes, the connecting wall coextending with the plurality of branch pipes and having an outside air introducing opening opposed to the intake side of the engine body; and wherein the intake manifold cooperates with the engine body to define therebetween an outside air path for transporting outside air introduced from the outside air introducing opening to an exhaust side of the engine body.