Patent ID: 7475681

Claim:
A breather apparatus in a combustion engine having cylinders arranged in V-shape and a crank case provided with a transmission case, the breather apparatus comprising: an air cleaner case including a filter element for purifying intake air to be supplied to the combustion engine, the air cleaner being disposed above a space formed in V-shape between the cylinders; a first breather chamber provided in the transmission case of the crank case and separating an oil component from blow-by gas generated in the crank case, the first breather chamber being disposed on an upper portion of the transmission case and having an outlet of the blow-by gas extending rear upward; a second breather chamber provided at a bottom portion of the air cleaner case and separating an oil component from the blow-by gas from the first breathe chamber, the second breather chamber being positioned in a clean side space downstream of the cleaner element and having an inlet of the blow-by gas extending rear downward; a breather pipe for fluidly connecting the outlet of the first breather chamber and the inlet of the second breathe chamber.