US 11,110,974 B2Granted

Fairing assembly for at least one axle of a commercial vehicle

AssigneeDaimler AG

InventorsCarlos Cosme, Manjul Gupta, Morris Henry, Nathan Hill, Scott Sargeant, Paolo Zanetti

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Abstract

A fairing assembly for at least one axle of a commercial vehicle is disclosed. The fairing assembly includes at least one forward fairing configured to be arranged at least partially in front of a drive wheel of the axle with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and at least one rear fairing configured to be arranged at least partially aft of the drive wheel. Each of the fairings includes at least one first portion made of a first material and at least one second portion adjoining the respective first portion where the second portion is made of a second material different from the first material.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A fairing assembly for a commercial vehicle, comprising:

a forward fairing configured to be disposed such that the forward fairing begins inboard of an outer tire tread edge of a tire of a forward drive wheel and progresses outwards to end outboard of a wall of the tire of the forward drive wheel with respect to a longitudinal direction of the commercial vehicle;
and
a rear fairing configured to be disposed such that the rear fairing begins inboard of an outer tire tread edge of a tire of a rear drive wheel and progresses outwards to end outboard of a wall of the tire of the rear drive wheel with respect to the longitudinal direction of the commercial vehicle, wherein the rear fairing has a concave cross-section in a transverse direction of the commercial vehicle.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/553,893Filed 23 Feb 2016
Priority: GB 150333027 Feb 2015
Published: US 2018/0072354 A115 Mar 2018
Granted: 7 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B62D 35/001
Vehicle bodies characterised by streamlining: for commercial vehicles or tractor-trailer combinations, e.g. caravans
B62D 35/008
Vehicle bodies characterised by streamlining: side spoilers
Y02T 10/82
Technologies aiming to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions common to all road transportation technologies: elements for improving aerodynamics
B62D
Motor vehicles