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US 2014/0076419 A1Published application
Self adjusting deturbulator enhanced flap and wind deflector
AssigneeSinhatech
InventorSumon K. Sinha
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Abstract
A self adjusting flap is disclosed. The self adjusting flap comprises a solid body including a hinge. The flap includes a flexible skin stretched across an array of equi-spaced ridges on a convex surface of the hinged solid body, such that lift and drag forces due to fluid flow across it causes the flap to rotate about the hinge and automatically orient itself to minimize flow losses through turbulence while shielding objects downstream from flow induced drag.
Claims11
A self adjusting flap comprising:
- a solid body including a hinge;
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- a flexible skin stretched across an array of equi-spaced ridges on the convex surface of a hinged solid body, such that lift and drag forces due to fluid flow across it causes the self adjusting flap to rotate about the hinge and automatically orient itself to minimize flow losses through turbulence while shielding objects downstream from flow induced drag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.