Automobile provided with wheel well deflectors
AssigneesCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
InventorsFabien Marlier, Jean-Jacques Azam
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Abstract
A motor vehicle includes at least one wheel designed to turn in a well defined by a wheelhouse. The vehicle also includes a wheel deflector of an elongate overall shape extending from the wheelhouse towards the wheel with one end provided with a radius R corresponding substantially to an exterior radius of the wheel. The deflector is arranged in an upper portion of the wheelhouse and extends longitudinally on each side of a median plane of the wheel passing through an axis of rotation of the wheel, with an overall angular length L between 1/20 and ¼ of an external circumference of the wheel.
Claims11
A motor vehicle comprised of a body formed of bodywork elements that include:
- a wheelhouse forming a well in which a wheel of the vehicle turns while the vehicle is running;
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- a deflector of elongate overall shape extending from the wheelhouse towards the wheel, with an end portion of the deflector being provided with a radius R corresponding substantially to an exterior radius of the wheel,
- wherein the deflector is arranged at an upper portion of the wheelhouse, and has an overall angular length L between 1/20 and ¼ of an external circumference P of the wheel, and
- wherein the end portion of the deflector closest to the wheel is situated axially relative to the wheel at a distance l of at most 1 cm from a plane of an exterior surface of the wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.