Movable grille shutter for vehicle
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenji Hori, Hiroshi Watanabe, Yoshimasa Asano, Masumi Nishikawa
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Abstract
A movable grille shutter for a vehicle includes a fin adapted to be provided at a grille opening portion and being operated so as to freely open or close the grille opening portion through which ambient air is taken in, a drive source for driving the fin, a driving force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a driving force from the drive source to the fin and a flexible member being linked to the driving force transmitting mechanism and being deformed for operating the fin to open the grille opening portion in a case where a load that is equal to or more than a predetermined value is acted thereon.
Claims6
A movable grille shutter for a vehicle comprising:
- a fin adapted to be provided at a grille opening portion and being operated so as to freely open or close the grille opening portion through which ambient air is taken in;
- a drive source for driving the fin;
- a driving force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a driving force from the drive source to the fin;
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- a flexible member being in association with the driving force transmitting mechanism and being deformed for causing the fin to open the grille opening portion upon receipt of a load that is equal to or more than a predetermined value is acted thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.