Patent ID: 7059439

Claim:
An apparatus for air induction into a vehicle internal combustion engine, comprising: at least one air intake stub tube with an intake end and an engine air filter container end; and an air accumulation chamber located at a front end of the vehicle, wherein a front side of the air accumulation chamber is formed by a front end covering of the vehicle, a back side of the air accumulation chamber is formed by a convex separating partition adjacent to an engine chamber of the vehicle, the convex separating partition including at least one accumulation chamber air inlet, located in a floor area of the partition which receives air from at least one air intake opening at the front of the vehicle, and the at least one air intake stub tube draws air from the air accumulation chamber through the stub tube intake end, and a tangential plane of the convex separating partition is transverse to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and is at an acute angle to a horizontal plane of the vehicle, and the at least one accumulation chamber air intake opening in the floor area of the separating partition is below the intake end of the at least one stub tube.