TRIM STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE
    91.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180111463A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-26

    申请号:US15565108

    申请日:2016-10-17

    摘要: A trim structure of a vehicle includes a deck cover constituting a vehicle interior upper portion at a vehicle rear side. The trim structure is provided between a seat and the deck cover and at an upper end of a door main body. The deck cover includes: left and right cover side portions opposed to each other; a rear window opening opening at a vehicle rear side of the seat; and a rear window configured to be openable and closable. The trim structure includes a straightening trim body located between a lower portion of a front end of one of the cover side portions and the seat and projecting to the upper end of the door main body. The straightening trim body is formed so as to straighten traveling wind to the rear window opening in an open state, the traveling wind flowing into a vehicle interior.

    Side skirt system for reducing drag

    公开(公告)号:US09919750B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-20

    申请号:US14457222

    申请日:2014-08-12

    IPC分类号: B62D35/02 B62D35/00

    摘要: A trailer having a storage container, a landing gear assembly coupled to the storage container, and a rear wheel assembly coupled to the storage container includes a side skirt system for reducing drag on the trailer. The side skirt system includes a side skirt wall configured to be coupled to one side of the trailer to extend below one side wall of the trailer at least partially along a length of the trailer. A length of the side skirt wall along a top edge of the side skirt wall is approximately 48%-80% of a distance between the landing gear and forward-most position of the rear wheel assembly.

    FAIRING SHIELDING CRITCAL UPPER WHEEL
    93.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180043944A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-15

    申请号:US15725173

    申请日:2017-10-04

    申请人: GARTH L. MAGEE

    发明人: GARTH L. MAGEE

    IPC分类号: B62D35/00 B62D35/02

    摘要: An upper wheel fairing assembly for increasing the propulsive efficiency of a wheeled vehicle having wheels otherwise exposed to headwinds, comprising a deflector panel or skirt panel assembly mounted upstream in front of a wheel set, extending downward toward the axle, and arranged to deflect headwinds from impinging upon the high drag-inducing mechanically advantaged upper wheel surfaces downward onto the low drag-inducing mechanically disadvantaged lower wheel surfaces.Additionally, an upper wheel skirt assembly for increasing the propulsive efficiency of a wheeled vehicle having rearward wheels otherwise exposed to headwinds comprising a wheel skirt panel assembly mounted laterally adjacent to a wheel assembly and disposed to shield upper sidewalls of the wheel assembly from headwinds otherwise impinging thereon.

    Rectifier to prevent airflow flowing outward in vehicle width direction

    公开(公告)号:US09855983B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-02

    申请号:US15279636

    申请日:2016-09-29

    IPC分类号: B62D35/00

    摘要: A rectifier that is installed on a vehicle which includes a front shield at a front of a vehicle compartment, a hood in front of the front shield, a cowl between a back edge of the hood and a lower end of the front shield, and a fender on an outside of the hood and the cowl in a vehicle width direction, the rectifier including a rectifier member that is installed at a region on a side surface of the fender and adjacent to the back edge of the hood, and has a negative pressure generation part which causes an airflow created when the vehicle travels to generate a negative pressure backward. The front shield is shaped like a curved surface that projects toward a front of the vehicle. At least a part of the negative pressure generation part is disposed in front of a shield extension virtual curve.

    TRUCK SEMITRAILER UNDERBODY AND UNDERCARRIAGE AERODYNAMIC FAIRINGS FOR FUEL ECONOMY

    公开(公告)号:US20170349224A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-07

    申请号:US15687461

    申请日:2017-08-26

    申请人: Nikolai Logounov

    发明人: Nikolai Logounov

    IPC分类号: B62D35/00 B62D35/02 B62D63/08

    摘要: A semitrailer underbody screen and wheel-set fairing kit comprises several panels and fairings for retrofitting on conventional semitrailers. A sectioned panel like fish scales covers the dozens of transverse I-beam cross-members positioned underneath conventional enclosed trailer floors, and carries on down the length of the underbody. A v-hull air deflector is set just beneath these panel covers, ahead of the semitrailer's undercarriage, suspension and tandem rear axle wheels. Such v-hull air deflector splits and aerodynamically “flows” the air being pushed ahead outwards to the sides and around the wheels. The tandem rear axle wheels themselves are completely boxed inside full fenders that cowl over the front, sides, top, and rear. Removable access panels are provided on the outsides of the full fender units for wheel and tire maintenance. The result is significantly less wind drag and noise at highway cruising speeds. Less drag means better fuel economy for the tractor operator.