Grille shutter device
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji HORI
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Abstract
A grille shutter device adapted to be arranged at a front portion of a vehicle body, the grille shutter device including a main air inlet taking air to flow the air to a specific heat exchanger arranged in the vehicle body, a shutter mechanism arranged at the main air inlet, the shutter mechanism opening and closing to control a flow rate of the air flowing from the main air inlet to the specific heat exchanger, and a bypass air inlet allowing the air to bypass the shutter mechanism to guide the air to the specific heat exchanger.
Claims17
A grille shutter device adapted to be arranged at a front portion of a vehicle body, the grille shutter device comprising:
- a main air inlet taking air to flow the air to a specific heat exchanger arranged in the vehicle body;
- a shutter mechanism arranged at the main air inlet, the shutter mechanism opening and closing to control a flow rate of the air flowing from the main air inlet to the specific heat exchanger;
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- a bypass air inlet allowing the air to bypass the shutter mechanism to guide the air to the specific heat exchanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.