AIR CLEANER ELEMENT FASTENING STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF AIR CLEANER

To provide an air cleaner element fastening structure of an air cleaner which enables easy assembly and maintenance and has a small number of components.SOLUTION: An air cleaner element fastening structure of the invention integrally fastens a dirty side part (40) of an air cleaner of a saddle-riding type vehicle with a clean side part (32) of an air cleaner element. In the air cleaner element fastening structure, a fixing member (50) is disposed between the dirty side part (40) and the clean side part (32). The air cleaner element fastening structure has: clean side part side snap fits (60) each of which has an engagement projection on a side wall of the clean side part (32) and an engagement piece which extends from the fixing member (50) and engages with the engagement projection; and dirty side part side snap fits (61) each of which has an engagement projection on a side wall of the dirty side part (40) and an engagement piece which extends from the fixing member (50) and engages with the engagement projection.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】組み付けやメンテナンスが容易で部品点数が少ないエアクリーナのエアクリーナエレメント締結構造を提供する。【解決手段】本発明のエアクリーナエレメント締結構造は、鞍乗型車両のエアクリーナのダーティサイド部（４０）とエアクリーナエレメントとクリーンサイド部（３２）とを一体に締結するエアクリーナエレメント締結構造において、ダーティサイド部（４０）とクリーンサイド部（３２）の間に固定部材（５０）を配置し、クリーンサイド部（３２）の側壁に係合突起を有し、固定部材（５０）から延びて前記係合突起に係合する係合片を有するクリーンサイド部側スナップフィット（６０）と、ダーティサイド部（４０）の側壁に係合突起を有し、固定部材（５０）から延びて前記係合突起に係合する係合片を有するダーティサイド部側スナップフィット（６１）と、を有する。【選択図】図２