Patent 7779809 was granted and assigned to Mikuni (company) on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A sensor unit includes a unit main body mounted on a throttle device, and a pressure sensor chamber that is provided at the unit main body and that accommodates an intake pressure sensor to detect an intake pressure through an intake pipe. The pressure sensor chamber is divided by a partition into a pressure receiving area to receive a pressure in the intake pipe and a pressure detecting area to detect the pressure by the intake pressure sensor, such that the pressure receiving area communicates with the pressure detecting area through a communication portion. A foreign substance is prevented from flowing into the intake pressure sensor when guiding air in the intake pipe to the intake pressure sensor, thereby improving detection accuracy by the intake pressure sensor.