Air-cooled type intercooler for a supercharged internal combustion engine

Claim 1

A vehicle comprising an engine room having a radiator grille at a front end thereof, an engine room hood lock support at a position behind said radiator grille, a bumper located below said radiator grille, and an air dam skirt located below said bumper; a tranversely extending chamber-like space formed between said radiator grille, said hood lock support, said bumper and said air dam skirt; an engine body provided within said engine room; a supercharging system in fluid communication with said engine body, said supercharging system comprising a pair of turbochargers arranged in parallel; and an intercooler provided in said chamber-like space, said intercooler comprising an inlet tank in fluid communication with said supercharger system for receiving compressed air therefrom, an outlet tank in fluid communication with said engine body for introducing cool air into said engine body, and a radiator core arranged between said inlet tank and said outlet tank, said radiator core comprising a plurality of horizontally juxtaposed and vertically extending heat exchanger pipes between which air can pass in order to cool compressed air in said heat exchanger pipes, said radiator core having a length in the horizontal direction which is greater than a height of said radiator core in the vertical direction; wherein air passing over said air dam skirt, below said bumper, is directed onto said vertically extending heat exchanger pipes of said intercooler.