Patent ID: 7270207

Claim:
An air intake system for a vehicle engine which comprises: a front cowling mounted on a front portion of a vehicle body structure, the vehicle body structure including a head tube and a left and a right headlight, said front cowling having left and right headlight windows aligned with the left and right headlights, said front cowling also having an air intake opening for introducing an air flow for a combustion air towards the vehicle engine, said air intake opening being defined intermediate between and upwardly of the left and right headlights and also defined above and in alignment with a nose of the front cowling positioned between the left and right headlight windows in a longitudinal axis direction of the vehicle body structure; and an air intake passage for introducing the combustion air, then entering the air intake opening, towards an air cleaner disposed rearwardly of the head tube at the same level with the head tube, the combustion air passing a portion of the head tube, which portion extends through the air intake passage between the air intake opening and the air cleaner and at the same level with the air intake opening to form a portion of the air intake passage, wherein the front cowling furthermore has a guide face that is so defined therein as to extend from the nose of the front cowling to the air intake opening for guiding into the air intake opening the combustion air past the nose of the front cowling.