Car provided with a pneumatic unit operated by a gearbox
AssigneeFerrari S.P.A.
InventorFabrizio Favaretto
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Abstract
A car has a gearbox, which is interposed between the engine and two drive wheels and has at least one input shaft connected to a drive shaft of the engine and at least one output shaft connected to the drive wheels; a rear bottom, which defines part of a lower floor of the car and is provided with a pneumatic unit configured to blow a first air flow in the direction of a road surface and/or to suck part of a second air flow flowing under the lower floor during the normal operation of the car; and a coupling device to connect a transmission shaft of the pneumatic unit and the input shaft or the output shaft of the gearbox to one another.
Claims8
A car comprising a support frame (2) defining part of a lower floor (3) of the car;
- a passenger compartment (4) projecting upwards from the lower floor (3);
- an engine (12) to move the car;
- two drive wheels (13);
- a gearbox (14), which is interposed between the engine (12) and the drive wheels (13) and has at least one input shaft connected to a drive shaft of the engine (12) and at least one output shaft (25) connected to the drive wheels (13);
- an aerodynamic bottom (5), which is at least partly fixed to the support frame (2), defines part of the lower floor (3) and comprises, in turn, a rear bottom (8), which is mounted in the area of a rear zone (9) of the car and is provided with a pneumatic unit (21) configured to blow a first air flow (F1) in the direction of a road surface and/or to suck part of a second air flow (F2) flowing under the lower floor (3) during the normal operation of the car;
- and characterized by the fact that it further comprises a coupling device (26) to connect a transmission shaft (24) of the pneumatic unit (21) and the input shaft or the output shaft (25) of the gearbox (14) to one another so as to operate the pneumatic unit (21) through the gearbox (14).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.