Airflow adjusting apparatus
AssigneeSubaru Corporation
InventorsNaoto Watanabe, Yusaku Dogahira
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Abstract
An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes an airflow ejector. The vehicle includes a wheel and a wheel housing including a cavity. The cavity is opened downward and laterally outward of a vehicle body of the vehicle, and houses a portion of the wheel. The airflow ejector is provided, in the cavity, on a front side of the vehicle relative to the wheel. The airflow ejector is configured to eject an airflow that forms a turbulence boundary layer adjacent to a surface of the wheel on a vehicle-widthwise inner side.
Claims8
An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle, the vehicle including a wheel and a wheel housing including a cavity that is opened downward and laterally outward of a vehicle body of the vehicle, and houses a portion of the wheel, the airflow adjusting apparatus comprising
- an airflow ejector provided, in the cavity, on a front side of the vehicle relative to the wheel, and configured to eject an airflow that forms a turbulence boundary layer adjacent to a surface of the wheel on a vehicle-widthwise inner side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.