US 11,891,128 B2Granted

Vehicle spat device

AssigneeAisin Corporation

InventorsRyota Tachi, Kenji Hori, Shuhei Uchida

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Abstract

A vehicle spat device includes: a spat that rotatably supported by a first rotation shaft and configured to be displaced between a deployment position and a storage position; and a link unit transmitting power of an actuator to the spat. The link unit includes a drive link rotating integrally with a drive shaft when the actuator is driven, and an intermediate link connected to the spat via a second rotation shaft and connected to the drive link via a third rotation shaft. The drive link rotates around the drive shaft between a first position where the spat is disposed at the storage position and a second position where the spat is disposed at the deployment position. In the drive link, the first position is a position rotated from a first neutral position in a first rotation direction.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A vehicle spat device comprising:

a spat that is rotatably supported by a first rotation shaft whose axial direction is a vehicle width direction and a second rotation shaft whose axial direction is the vehicle width direction, and is configured to be displaced between a deployment position in which the spat deploys to a space in front of a vehicle wheel and a storage position in which the spat retracts from the space in front of the vehicle wheel;
a first link connected to the spat via the first rotation shaft;
a second link connected to the spat via the second rotation shaft;
an actuator that transmits power to the spat;
and
a controller that controls the actuator, wherein
in a case where the spat is located at the deployment position, the first link and the second link move the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft to the rear of a vehicle as compared with a case where the spat is located at the storage position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/063,313Filed 8 Dec 2022 · continuation
Priority: JP 2019-20537913 Nov 2019
Published: US 2023/0102265 A130 Mar 2023
Granted: 6 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B62D 35/005
Vehicle bodies characterised by streamlining: front spoilers
B62D 37/02
Stabilising vehicle bodies without controlling suspension arrangements: by aerodynamic means
B62D 35/02
Vehicle bodies characterised by streamlining: streamlining the undersurfaces
Y02T 10/82
Technologies aiming to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions common to all road transportation technologies: elements for improving aerodynamics

Family

Application17/096,216Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Nov 2020
US 2023/0102265 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Mar 2023
US 11,623,701 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0139088 A1Published application
US 11,891,128 B2This patent

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