Rear arrangement for a vehicle
AssigneeDr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
InventorDominik Beierl
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Abstract
A rear arrangement for a vehicle includes a trailer coupling mount and a rear diffuser having an adjustable air-guiding element which is adjustable between a retracted position and an extended position. The trailer coupling mount is pivotable about a pivot axis, which is congruent or parallel to the vehicle transverse axis (y), between an inoperative position and a use position. The air-guiding element in the retracted position at least partially conceals the trailer coupling mount, and the air-guiding element has to be brought into the extended position so that the trailer coupling mount can be pivoted into the use position.
Claims6
A rear arrangement for a vehicle, said rear arrangement comprising:
- a trailer coupling mount that is pivotable about a pivot axis, which is congruent or parallel to a vehicle transverse axis (y), between an inoperative position and a use position;
- a rear diffuser having an adjustable air-guiding element which is adjustable between a retracted position and an extended position;
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- an air-guiding element actuator that is configured for adjusting the adjustable air-guiding element between the retracted position and the extended position;
- a trailer coupling mount actuator that is configured to pivot the trailer coupling mount;
- an operating element that is coupled electrically and/or electronically to a control means which is configured to activate the trailer coupling mount actuator and/or the air-guiding element actuator,
- wherein, in the retracted position of the air-guiding element, the air-guiding element at least partially conceals the trailer coupling mount, and the air-guiding element has to be brought into the extended position so that the trailer coupling mount can be pivoted into the use position,
- wherein the control means is configured to (i) activate the air-guiding element actuator as a result of an actuation of the operating element to adjust the air-guiding element into the extended position, and (ii) activate the trailer coupling mount actuator to pivot the trailer coupling mount into the use position, wherein, when the trailer coupling mount is pivoted into the use position, an adjustment of the air-guiding element into the retracted position is blocked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.