Link apparatus of variable rear spoiler for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsPhil Jung Jeong, Young Sub Oh, Seung Mok Lee, Hyun Gyung Kim, Bock Cheol Lee, Dong Eun Cha
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Abstract
A link apparatus of a variable rear spoiler for a vehicle, may include an outer linkage coupled to a motorized rotating drive shaft, a base bracket affixed to a vehicle body and a spoiler bracket connected to a rear spoiler, wherein the outer linkage determines a withdrawal height of the rear spoiler at a fully open state of the rear spoiler, and an inner linkage positioned inside of the outer linkage and coupled to the drive shaft, the base bracket, and the spoiler bracket, wherein the inner linkage determines a withdrawal angle of the rear spoiler at the fully open state of the rear spoiler.
Claims11
A link apparatus of a variable rear spoiler for a vehicle, comprising:
- an outer linkage coupled to a motorized rotating drive shaft, a base bracket affixed to a vehicle body and a spoiler bracket connected to a rear spoiler, wherein the outer linkage determines a withdrawal height of the rear spoiler at a fully open state of the rear spoiler;
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- an inner linkage positioned inside of the outer linkage and coupled to the drive shaft, the base bracket, and the spoiler bracket, wherein the inner linkage determines a withdrawal angle of the rear spoiler at the fully open state of the rear spoiler,
- wherein the outer linkage includes first, second, and third links that are separately provided,
- a first end of the first link is engaged to a first end of the drive shaft to be rotated integrally with the drive shaft,
- a first end of one of the second and third links is rotatably hinged to the base bracket, and a first end of the other of the second and third links is rotatably hinged to the spoiler bracket, and
- two portions of one of the first, second, and third links are rotatably hinged to respective second ends of the other two of the first, second, and third links.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.