Windshield device for vehicle
AssigneeSuzuki Motor Corporation
InventorsAkihiko Takahashi, Yuki Shimizu
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Abstract
A vehicle body cover formed by a front cowling covering, from a front direction, a front-head part of a vehicle body, meter panels, and a front panel, which are mutually coupled, covers the front part of the vehicle body. A windscreen capable of being vertically moved by a varying mechanism is disposed at a position above the front cowling. A traveling air taken in at a front part of the vehicle body cover via an air introduction part is exhausted from air-exhaust parts at proper places on the meter panel or the front panel, and an overlap area between the windscreen and the air introduction part in front elevational view of the vehicle changes in accordance with an aspect of the windscreen.
Claims10
A windshield device for a vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle body cover formed by a front cowling covering, from a front direction, a front-head part of a vehicle body, meter panels positioned at a rear of the front cowling, and a front panel positioned behind and below the meter panels, such that the front cowling, meter panels, and front panel are mutually coupled, said vehicle body cover covering the front-head part of the vehicle body to form a uniform external appearance of the front part of the vehicle body;
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- a windscreen disposed at a position above the front cowling and capable of being vertically moved by a varying mechanism between a lower end position and a rising end position, wherein:
- a traveling air taken in at a front part of said vehicle body cover via an air introduction part is exhausted from air-exhaust parts at proper places on the meter panels or the front panel;
- an overlap area between said windscreen and the air introduction part in front elevational view of the vehicle changes in accordance with an aspect of said windscreens;
- a screen backside ventilation passage is provided at a backside of said windscreen, and the air introduction part is positioned at a front surface of the meter panels and is communicated with an intermediate portion of the screen backside ventilation passage, and
- a cross-sectional area of the screen backside ventilation passage is reduced as said windscreen moves upward.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.