Patent ID: 7334654

Claim:
A vehicle front end structure comprising; an axial flow fan having, in turn, a rotating shaft which extends in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and adapted for supplying cooling air to a radiator, an intercooler for cooling air drawn into an internal combustion engine, and an air cleaner, provided on a downstream side of an air flow relative to an inlet of the air cleaner from which air drawn into the internal combustion engine is introduced, for removing dust in the air so introduced; wherein the inlet of the air cleaner is positioned opposite to the intercooler across the axial flow fan as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the air cleaner is positioned at a location where the air cleaner deviates from the intercooler as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the axial flow fan rotates in a direction which deflects an air flow blown out of the axial fan to an intercooler side; the inlet of the air cleaner is in communication with air at a location behind the radiator as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle; and the inlet of the air cleaner faces away from the internal combustion engine and draws the air from the location behind the radiator in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.