Patent ID: 8528679

Claim:
An air intake system in a vehicle, comprising: a grille disposed at a forward end of the vehicle for admitting airflow into an engine compartment of the vehicle; a secondary scoop having a ramped surface facing upward with a lower end disposed more forwardly relative to a forward direction of travel of the vehicle than an upper end thereof for directing at least a portion of the airflow admitted through the grille upward toward an air intake of the vehicle, the ramped surface having an aperture defined therein that receives an entrained particle airflow portion from the portion of the airflow directed upward by the ramped surface and directs the entrained particle airflow portion away from the air intake so as to prevent entrained particles contained within the entrained particle airflow portion from reaching the air intake; and a primary scoop secured to a bulkhead extending across the engine compartment and having a primary scoop ramped surface facing upward that further directs the at least a portion of the airflow upward toward the air intake, the secondary scoop extending forward from a front lower portion of the primary scoop.