A bottom surface of a surge tank has such a shape that, in a vehicle-mounted state, the bottom surface is positioned below a lower surface at an upstream end of each of a plurality of independent passages and comes closer to the lower surface at the upstream end of each of the plurality of independent passages in a vertical direction farther away from a connected portion between the surge tank and a third passage in a cylinder array direction.

An intake structure of an engine includes an intake manifold as an engine side-part intake member that is provided on an intake side-surface of a cylinder head and connected to an intake system, which includes a first air cleaner as an engine upper-part intake member on an upper-part of the engine body; an intake opening member including an air inlet, an intake air passage guiding air sucked by the member through the first air cleaner to the intake manifold; a resonator as one of an engine upper-surface intake members provided on an upper surface of the engine body and nearer an exhaust system than and adjacent to the first air cleaner; and an intake manifold connected to the side-surface as an engine side-part intake member.

Techniques control attachment of equipment to a vehicle deck. Such techniques involve positioning an equipment base that serves as a base of the equipment on the vehicle deck. Such techniques further involve extending a latching mechanism of the equipment base to provide a first latching width that captures the equipment base between a set of deck clamps and a deck jamb mounted to the vehicle deck to fasten the equipment to the vehicle deck. Such techniques further involve contracting the latching mechanism to provide the equipment base with a second latching width that enables the equipment base to escape from the set of deck clamps and the deck jamb mounted to the vehicle deck to unfasten the equipment from the vehicle deck.

A vehicle includes a floor plate defining a front and a back of the vehicle, wall sections to receive vehicle loading and transfer the vehicle loading to the floor plate, and a fluid delivery assembly supported by the floor plate. The fluid delivery assembly includes an intake manifold that resides at the back, an outlet that resides at the front, and a set of lateral conduits extending between the intake manifold and the outlet to laterally convey fluid entering the intake manifold from a fluid source to the outlet for delivery to a fluid target. Accordingly, the back may connect to the fluid source and the front may deliver the fluid thus keeping the vehicle sides and top available for other uses. Moreover, the low isolated placement of the fluid delivery assembly safeguards the fluid delivery assembly and provides a low center of gravity for vehicle stability.

An overridable failsafe brake apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The overridable failsafe brake apparatus includes (a) a lever accessible from outside the vehicle, the lever being operable at a first position and a second position; (b) a brake; and (c) a spring having a first end coupled to the lever and a second end coupled to the brake. (d) The lever disposed in the first position is configured to induce tension in the spring that enables the brake to be activated, and the lever disposed in the second position is configured to reduce tension in the spring to disable the brake from being engaged. A method of operating an overridable failsafe brake apparatus for a vehicle and a vehicle including an overridable failsafe brake apparatus are also provided.

An apparatus of controlling a hybrid vehicle may include: an engine configured to an engine power; a drive motor to assist the power of the engine and selectively operate as a generator to generate electrical energy; a clutch disposed between the engine and the drive motor; a battery to supply electrical energy to the drive motor or to be charged by the electrical energy generated by the drive motor; an electric supercharger installed in an intake line through which an ambient air is supplied to a combustion chamber of the engine; and a controller to operate the electric supercharger and control the engine power output from the engine and a drive motor power output from the drive motor based on a desired power of a driver and a SOC (state of charge) of the battery.

A ship propulsion system comprises at least one internal combustion engine with a combustion chamber for burning a fuel and a turbocharger with a compressor in an intake tract of the internal combustion engine. The ship propulsion system further comprises an electrolysis device, which produces hydrogen and oxygen gas, which are added on a pressure side of the compressor and conducted to the internal combustion engine. Moreover, a water tank and an alcohol tank are connected to a pressure side of the compressor in order to add water and alcohol to the charge air.

A vehicular static eliminating device includes: a negative ion generating device; and a guide device configured to guide negative ions and release the negative ions from an emission port to a static elimination target spot which is positively charged, the guide device including: a guide member defining a passage through which to guide the negative ions, the guide member being made of a resin which is easily negatively charged in a triboelectric series; and a tip-shaped part configured to discharge, by corona discharge, negative electric charges, which have accumulated on the guide member, to the static elimination target spot, the tip-shaped part being provided in a part defining the emission port and in proximity to the static elimination target spot.

A ship propulsion system comprises at least one internal combustion engine with a combustion chamber for burning a fuel and a turbocharger with a compressor in an intake tract of the internal combustion engine. The ship propulsion system further comprises an electrolysis device, which produces hydrogen and oxygen gas, which are added on a pressure side of the compressor and conducted to the internal combustion engine. Moreover, a water tank and an alcohol tank are connected to a pressure side of the compressor in order to add water and alcohol to the charge air.

An assembly for receiving a fluid subjected to fluctuating pressure has a housing with at least two housing parts. A tensioning bolt connects the at least two housing parts to each other. The tensioning bolt has at least two spaced-apart threaded sections, wherein the at least two threaded sections each are screwed into a respective counter thread in the at least two housing parts. The assembly can be a suction pipe or an air filter device of an internal combustion engine.