Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshio Tanahashi, Yoji Kanehara, Koshi Yamada
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Abstract
A vehicle in which separation of airflow from a vehicle surface can be prevented without causing disfigurement is provided. A vehicle body is insulated from a road surface, and positive static charges accumulate on the vehicle body during propulsion. The vehicle comprises a charge control device adapted to decrease the positive potential of a separation point at which positively charged airflow flowing along a vehicle surface deviates from the vehicle surface during propulsion by applying negative ions to an inner surface of the separation point.
Claims8
A vehicle, in which positive static charges accumulate on a vehicle body insulated from a road surface during propulsion,
- wherein the positively charged vehicle body includes a separation area at which the vehicle body is bent inwardly or protruded outwardly, and positively charged airflow flows along the positively charged surface of the vehicle body during the propulsion,
- the vehicle comprising:
- a charge control device configured to decrease positive potential of the separation area by blowing negative ions onto an inner surface of the separation area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.