Vehicle fluid controller
AssigneeSubaru Corporation
InventorsYusaku Dogahira, Naoto Watanabe
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Abstract
A vehicle fluid controller to be applied to a vehicle. The vehicle fluid controller includes a jet generator, a wind detector, and a jet controller. The jet generator is configured to generate a jet of air and is disposed at an edge of a vehicle-body opening through which a vehicle cabin of the vehicle is allowed to be open to an outside of the vehicle. The wind detector is configured to detect a speed and a direction of wind acting on the vehicle body of the vehicle. The jet controller is configured to control the jet from the jet generator in accordance with the speed and the direction of the wind in such a manner as to disturb an airflow passing over the vehicle-body opening along a surface of the vehicle body.
Claims7
A vehicle fluid controller to be applied to a vehicle, the vehicle fluid controller comprising:
- at least one jet generator configured to generate a jet of air, the at least one jet generator being disposed at an edge of a vehicle-body opening through which a vehicle cabin of the vehicle is allowed to be open to an outside of the vehicle;
- a wind detector configured to detect a speed and a direction of wind acting on a vehicle body of the vehicle;
- and
- a jet controller configured to control the jet from the at least one jet generator in accordance with the speed and the direction of the wind in such a manner as to disturb an airflow passing over the vehicle-body opening along a surface of the vehicle body,
- wherein,
- the vehicle-body opening is a roof opening,
- the at least one jet generator comprises jet generators configured to respectively generate jets of air toward an inner side of the roof opening in a vehicle-width direction of the vehicle, and each of the jet generators being disposed along an edge on at least one of two sides of the roof opening in the vehicle-width direction, and
- the jet controller is configured to control an intensity of each of the jets.
A vehicle fluid controller to be applied to a vehicle, the vehicle fluid controller comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- cause at least one jet generator to generate a jet of air, wherein the at least one jet generator is disposed at an edge of a vehicle-body opening through which a vehicle cabin of the vehicle is allowed to be open to an outside of the vehicle;
- cause a wind detector to detect a speed and a direction of wind acting on a vehicle body of the vehicle;
- and
- control the jet from the at least one jet generator in accordance with the speed and the direction of the wind in such a manner as to disturb an airflow passing over the vehicle-body opening along a surface of the vehicle body,
- wherein, the vehicle-body opening is a roof opening, and the circuitry is further configured to:
- control jet generators of the at least one jet generator to respectively generate jets of air toward an inner side of the roof opening in a vehicle-width direction of the vehicle, wherein each of the jet generators is disposed along an edge on at least one of two sides of the roof opening in the vehicle-width direction, and
- control an intensity of each of the jets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.