Patent ID: 8397494

Claim:
An exhaust device of an internal combustion engine comprising: a plurality of cylinders arranged in a straight line, exhaust ports of a pair of cylinders positioned at two ends and a center cylinder or cylinders, each of the center cylinder or cylinders having one or more exhaust ports, positioned between the pair of cylinders being merged at an exhaust merging portion formed in a cylinder head, and an exhaust outlet opening of the exhaust merging portion being formed on a cylinder head side wall positioned outside of the exhaust merging portion, wherein a sensor having a sensing part liable to be damaged by deposition of moisture is arranged at an exhaust inlet part of an exhaust flow passage connected to said exhaust outlet opening, and water droplets formed on each inner wall of the one or more exhaust ports of each center cylinder or cylinders splash along an extended tubular shaped surface of an opening part of the one or more exhaust ports of each center cylinder or cylinders toward the exhaust merging portion, all of the one or more exhaust ports of each center cylinder or cylinders being formed so that the sensing part of the sensor is not contained in the extended tubular shaped surface of the opening part along which said water droplets splash, wherein the sensing part is disposed on a top wall surface of the exhaust flow passage such that a location of the sensing part of the sensor is aligned with a top wall planar surface of the exhaust merging portion, wherein all of the one or more exhaust ports of each center cylinder or cylinders are formed so that the extended tubular shaped surface of the opening part of the one or more exhaust ports of each center cylinder or cylinders to said exhaust merging portion are not directed toward said exhaust outlet opening.