Air balance panel for vehicles
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTeiji Okuyama
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Abstract
An air balance panel for vehicles which includes an air balance panel integrally and unitarily formed with a vehicle bumper which is made of plastic and which further includes a flexible portion and a drive mechanism operatively connected to the air balance panel for acting on the flexible portion of the air balance panel according to a predetermined signal. The air balance panel also includes an arm member operatively connected to the drive mechanism for acting on the flexible portion of the air balance panel. Also included are link members interposed between the arm member and the air balance panel for transmitting driving force from the drive mechanism to the air balance panel.
Claims7
An air balance panel for vehicles having a bumper, comprising
- an air balance panel integrally and unitarily formed with said vehicle bumper which comprises plastic and which further comprises an expandable flexible portion for integrally interconnecting said air balancing panel with said vehicle bumper;
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- drive means operatively connected to said air balance panel for acting on said expandable flexible portion of said air balance panel according to a predetermined signal.
An air balance panel for vehicles having a bumper comprising:
- an air balance panel integrally and unitarily formed with said vehicle bumper which comprises plastic and which further comprises a vertically expandable and contractable flexible portion for integrally interconnecting said air balancing panel with said vehicle bumpers;
- drive means operatively connected to said air balancing panel for acting on said vertically expandable and contractable flexible portion of said air balance panel according to a predetermined signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.