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Title:
AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013132995
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an amphibious vehicle capable of properly cooling a cooling object, while reducing an apparatus cost.

An amphibious vehicle is provided for sailing on water and running on a land, and includes: an engine as a power source; a water cooling cooler 18 for cooling the cooling object by cooling water flowing in through a cooling water flow-in passage 41; and a propulsion unit 15 for generating propulsive force by power of the engine. The propulsion unit 15 includes: a water flow path 31 for causing water which is flown in from an inlet 31a, to flow out to a jetting port 31b; a propeller blade 32 provided in the water flow path 31; a propulsion shaft 26 which is connected to the propeller blade 32 and which rotates by power of the engine. One end of the cooling water flow-in passage 41 is connected to the water flow path 31 downstream of the propeller blade 32, and the other end is connected to a flow-in side of the water cooling cooler 18, and the water flowing in the water flow path 31 is caused to flow toward the water cooling cooler 18, as cooling water.


Inventors:
SATO SHINICHI
MATSUNAGA TAKASHI
Application Number:
JP2011284543A
Publication Date:
July 08, 2013
Filing Date:
December 26, 2011
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Assignee:
MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD
International Classes:
B60F3/00; B63H11/08
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroaki Sakai
Jun Takamura



 
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