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US 11,685,324 B2Granted
Member for ratcheting between a moving component and adjacent structure
AssigneeAtieva, Inc.
InventorsVijay Shankar Authimoolam Iyer, Tobias Emanuel Monteiro Martins, Boon-Sam Tan, Eric Magnus Bach
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Abstract
A vehicle comprises: a vehicle body having a front and a rear; a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis portion; a component attached to the front of the vehicle body; and a member comprising (i) an elongate portion having teeth, and (ii) an attachment portion attaching the member to one of the chassis portion or the component, wherein the member is configured for ratcheting of the teeth against an edge of the other of the chassis portion or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis portion.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a front and a rear;
- a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis beam;
- a component attached to the front of the vehicle body;
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- a member comprising (i) an elongate portion having teeth, and (ii) an attachment portion attaching the member directly to one of the chassis beam or the component, wherein the member is configured for ratcheting of the teeth against an edge of the other of the chassis beam or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis beam.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a front and a rear;
- a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis portion;
- a component attached to the front of the vehicle body;
- a member comprising (i) an elongate portion having teeth, and (ii) an attachment portion attaching the member to one of the chassis portion or the component, wherein the member is configured for ratcheting of the teeth against an edge of the other of the chassis portion or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis portion;
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- a lighting component that forms an upper leading edge in the front of the vehicle body, the lighting component positioned higher in the vehicle than the component and further forward in the vehicle than the component.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a front and a rear;
- a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis portion;
- a component attached to the front of the vehicle body;
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- a member comprising (i) an elongate portion having teeth, and (ii) an attachment portion attaching the member to one of the chassis portion or the component, wherein the member is configured for ratcheting of the teeth against an edge of the other of the chassis portion or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis portion;
- wherein the member further comprises a bridge portion extending substantially perpendicularly from the elongate portion.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a front and a rear;
- a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis portion;
- a component attached to the front of the vehicle body;
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- a member comprising (i) an elongate portion having teeth, and (ii) an attachment portion attaching the member to one of the chassis portion or the component, wherein the member is configured for ratcheting of the teeth against an edge of the other of the chassis portion or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis portion;
- wherein the member is attached to the component, wherein the component includes openings facing each other, and wherein opposing ends of the attachment portion are configured for being received in the respective openings.
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A member comprising:
- an elongate portion having teeth;
- a bridge portion fixed to, and extending substantially perpendicularly from, the elongate portion;
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- an attachment portion fixed to, and extending substantially perpendicularly from, the bridge portion on a same side of the bridge portion as the elongate portion, wherein only the bridge portion connects the elongate portion and the attachment portion to each other, with the teeth oriented in a direction away from the attachment portion.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a front and a rear;
- a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis beam;
- a component attached to the front of the vehicle body;
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- means, directly attached to one of the chassis beam or the component, for ratcheting against an edge of the other of the chassis beam or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis beam.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.