US 2022/0185396 A1 · BARRIERS FOR REAR FRAME MOUNTED SPARE TIRES

Barriers for rear frame mounted spare tires

AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC

InventorsLeonard Anthony Shaner, Diego Eduardo Mendoza Hernández, Greg Gombert, Marcela Arana, Peter Joseph Jargowsky, Sukhwinder Singh Dhindsa, Jeffrey A. Walesch, Chih-Yu Lin, Mikolaj Tyksinski, Grant Warr, William L. Duncan

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Abstract

Barriers for rear frame mounted spare tires are disclosed. An example vehicle disclosed herein includes a frame including a cross member, a spare tire, a skid plate, and a barrier extending between the skid plate and the cross member, the barrier abutting the spare tire, the barrier including a first surface having a first curvature, the first curvature concave relative to a rear of the vehicle.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A vehicle comprising:

a frame including a cross member;
a spare tire;
a skid plate;
and
a barrier extending between the skid plate and the cross member, the barrier abutting the spare tire, the barrier including a first surface having a first curvature, the first curvature concave relative to a rear of the vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/121,406Filed 14 Dec 2020

Published

16 Jun 2022

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Classification7 codes

B62D 43/04
External to the vehicle body: attached beneath the vehicle body
B62D 21/15
Understructures, i.e. chassis frame on which a vehicle body may be mounted: having impact absorbing means, e.g. a frame designed to permanently or…
B62D 21/152
Having impact absorbing means, e.g. a frame designed to permanently or temporarily change shape or dimension upon impact with another body: front…
B62D 25/20
Superstructure or monocoque structure sub-units; Parts or details thereof not otherwise provided for: floors or bottom sub-units