Patent ID: 6915774

Claim:
An intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a plurality of engine cylinders and an intake port connected to each of the engine cylinders, the intake apparatus comprising: a partition extending in a longitudinal direction of the intake port so as to divide an inside region of the intake port into a first passage and a second passage; and a gas motion control valve including a rotatable valve element disposed upstream of the partition and spaced from an upstream end of the partition, the gas motion control valve having a full-closed position where the valve element prevents intake air from flowing into the second passage of the intake port and a full-open position where the valve element allows the intake air to flow into the second passage of the intake port, the valve element being inclined so as to guide a flow of the intake air to the first passage of the intake port when the gas motion control valve is in the full-closed position, the valve element and the partition cooperating with each other to define an interspace between the valve element and the upstream end of the partition when the gas motion control valve is in the full-closed position.