Patent ID: 8133292

Claim:
An air cleaner structure for a small V-type engine in which an engine main body having a front bank and a rear bank V-shaped in a back and forth direction of a body frame is mounted on the body frame, and a pair of left and right extending air intake ducts opening forward are respectively connected to both left and right sides of a single air cleaner shared by the front and rear banks, comprising: a filter housing having an introduction port formed in each of the left and right lateral walls, each introduction port communicating with respective air intake ducts; and, a pair of cleaner elements fixedly disposed in the filter housing partitioning the inside of the filter housing into an upper unfiltered air chamber communicating with both of the introduction ports, and a filtered air chamber disposed below the unfiltered air chamber and shared by the front and rear banks; wherein the cleaner elements are adapted to be disposed on opposing sides of a vehicle body centerline, extend forwardly and rearwardly of the air introduction ports, and are inclined to be gradually lowered as the cleaner elements extend away from the vehicle body centerline to face respective air introduction ports.