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US 9,168,958 B2Granted
Automotive wheel separation mechanism
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsHyun Sik Kim, Sung Uk Hong, Joonam Kim, Soo Heung Eom, Seongsu Shin
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Abstract
An automotive wheel separation mechanism may include a hitting member that hits and breaks a lateral arm connecting a wheel to a vehicle body by being pushed back in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle due to a shock force from the outside in a front collision, and an anti-sliding protrusion that is disposed on the lateral arm to prevent the hitting member hitting the lateral arm from sliding on the lateral arm.
Claims11
An automotive wheel separation apparatus comprising:
- a hitting member, that hits and breaks a lateral arm connecting a wheel to a vehicle body, by being pushed back in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle due to a shock force from the outside in a front collision;
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- an anti-sliding protrusion that is disposed on the lateral arm to prevent the hitting member hitting the lateral arm from sliding on the lateral arm, the hitting member being formed with a groove in which the lateral arm is movably fitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.