Patent ID: 8540043

Claim:
A vehicle air intake system, comprising: a grille disposed along a forward end of a vehicle, the grille having one or more inlet apertures for admitting airflow; a bulkhead extending laterally across the vehicle rearwardly of the grille; an intake enclosure having an intake port disposed over the bulkhead; a bulkhead cover extending from the bulkhead to the grille, the bulkhead cover defining a bulkhead cover primary port and a bulkhead cover auxiliary port, both for allowing the airflow admitted by the grille to pass to the intake port of the intake enclosure, wherein the bulkhead cover further includes: a forward wall defining the bulkhead cover primary port for receiving an airflow admitted through the grille, a first side wall extending from an outer lateral side of the forward wall to an outer lateral side of the intake enclosure, and a second side wall extending from an inner lateral side of the forward wall to an inner lateral side of the intake enclosure, the intake enclosure defining the intake port between the outer and inner lateral sides of the intake enclosure; wherein the bulkhead cover auxiliary port is defined in the second side wall for receiving additional airflow admitted through the grille and thereby reducing snow ingestion through the bulkhead cover primary port.