US 2015/0307137 A1 · VEHICULAR MUD GUARD STRUCTURE

Abstract

A mud guard portion is placed on a vehicle rear side relative to a rear tire. This makes it possible to restrain mud or the like splashed by the rear tire from hitting an underfloor. Further, an inside flow regulating portion is provided adjacently to an inner side of the mud guard portion in the vehicle width direction, and the inside flow regulating portion extends from its upper end toward a vehicle lower side and toward the vehicle rear side. Hereby, when a travel wind flowing on an inner side of the rear tire in the vehicle width direction in the wheel house hits the inside flow regulating portion, the travel wind flows toward the vehicle rear side along a deflection wall portion of the inside flow regulating portion. Accordingly, turbulence of the air on a vehicle rear side of the rear tire due to the travel wind is restrained.

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Dependent claims

A guard structure comprising:

a mud guard portion provided in a rear end of a wheel house in which a wheel assembly is placed, the mud guard portion having a plate shape of which width direction extends along a vehicle width direction, the mud guard portion having a lower end that projects toward a vehicle lower side and that reaches a position below and underfloor of the vehicle on a rear side of the wheel house;
and
an inside flow regulating portion provided adjacently to an inner side of the mud guard portion in the vehicle width direction, the inside flow regulating portion having a plate shape of which width direction extends along the vehicle width direction, the inside flow regulating portion having an upper end placed in front of the rear end of the wheel house in a vehicle front-rear direction, the inside flow regulating portion extending from the upper end toward the vehicle lower side and toward a vehicle rear side.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Vehicular mud guard structure

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Vehicular mud guard structure

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Abstract

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