Roof cover ducts
AssigneeMcLaren Automotive Limited
InventorAndrew Kay
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Abstract
A vehicle comprising: an occupant cabin; a retractable roof configured to move between a deployed configuration where the roof covers the occupant cabin and a retracted configuration; a housing configured to house the retractable roof when the roof is in the retracted configuration; and a moveable cover configured to close the housing, the moveable cover comprising: a cover body; and two fins each extending from the cover body, the fins being located on either side of a longitudinal centreline of the vehicle, and the fins each comprising a channel running through the fin from a first side of the fin facing away from the longitudinal centreline to a second side of the fin facing towards the longitudinal centreline.
Claims15
A vehicle comprising:
- an occupant cabin;
- a retractable roof configured to move between a deployed configuration where the roof covers the occupant cabin and a retracted configuration;
- a housing configured to house the retractable roof when the roof is in the retracted configuration;
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- a moveable cover configured to close the housing, the moveable cover comprising:
- a cover body;
- and two fins each extending from the cover body, the fins being located on either side of a longitudinal centreline of the vehicle, and the fins each comprising a channel running through the fin from a first side of the fin facing away from the longitudinal centreline to a second side of the fin facing towards the longitudinal centreline, wherein each channel originates in an outlet on the second side of the fin, and the outlet is oriented towards a rearward direction of the vehicle,
- wherein the fins are constituted by multiple separate parts, the fins each comprising a first part being a projection from the cover body and a second part being a panel attached to the projection, wherein the panel is attached to the cover body rearwardly from the attachment of the panel to the projection, the channel running between the projection from the cover body and the panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.