ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,099, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Air cleaner" was invented by Akihito Fukui (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Shintaro Yagi (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an air cleaner configured to be disposed inside a vehicle body frame, the air cleaner including: an air cleaner case in which an intake chamber is formed; an air filter disposed in the intake chamber; an inlet tube configured to take in air to the intake chamber; and an outlet tube configured to send out the air from the intake chamber. The inlet tube extends in a front-rear direction. The inlet tube has a bott...