Member for ratcheting between a moving component and adjacent structure
AssigneeAtieva, Inc.
InventorsVijay Shankar Authimoolam Iyer, Tobias Emanuel Monteiro Martins, Boon-Sam Tan, Eric Magnus Bach
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Abstract
A vehicle comprises: a vehicle body having a front and a rear; a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis portion; a component attached to the front of the vehicle body; and a member comprising (i) an elongate portion having teeth, and (ii) an attachment portion attaching the member to one of the chassis portion or the component, wherein the member is configured for ratcheting of the teeth against an edge of the other of the chassis portion or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis portion.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a front and a rear;
- a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis portion;
- a component attached to the front of the vehicle body;
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- a member comprising (i) an elongate portion having teeth, and (ii) an attachment portion attaching the member to one of the chassis portion or the component, wherein the member is configured for ratcheting of the teeth against an edge of the other of the chassis portion or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis portion.
A member comprising:
- an elongate portion having teeth;
- a bridge portion extending substantially perpendicularly from the elongate portion;
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- an attachment portion extending substantially perpendicularly from the bridge portion on a same side of the bridge portion as the elongate portion, with the teeth oriented in a direction away from the attachment portion.
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body having a front and a rear;
- a vehicle chassis supporting the vehicle body, the vehicle chassis including a chassis portion;
- a component attached to the front of the vehicle body;
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- means, attached to one of the chassis portion or the component, for ratcheting against an edge of the other of the chassis portion or the component due to relative movement between the component and the chassis portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.