IP Library Granted Patent US 7,644,979
Granted Patent B2
US 7,644,979 · App. 12/420,851 · Granted Jan 12, 2010

Front-end part of a motor vehicle with an air-guiding element

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Patent No.
US 7,644,979
App. No.
12/420,851
Granted
Jan 12, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A front-end part of a motor vehicle has an air scoop with an air-guiding duct to a charge air cooler between a central air inlet opening and a lateral air inlet opening of an air-guiding element. Wherein, in a pre-installation position, the air scoop is kept folded away on a central air-guiding element and, in an installation position, is folded back and can be connected to a lateral air-guiding element.

Claims (20)

1. A front-end part of a motor vehicle, comprising:

a central air-guiding element having a central air inlet opening formed therein and directed toward a radiator of an internal combustion engine;

lateral air-guiding elements having lateral air inlet openings formed therein and directed toward a charge air cooler of the internal combustion engine; and

air scoops each having an air-guiding duct, one of said air scoops disposed in each case between said central air inlet opening and one of said lateral air inlet openings, and, in a pre-installation position, said air scoops are kept folded away from said lateral air-guiding elements on said central air-guiding element and, in an installation position, said air scoops are folded back and can be connected to said lateral air-guiding elements.

2. The front-end part according to claim 1 , wherein:

said central air-guiding element has limbs with free ends; and

said air scoops have connecting elements, and in the pre-installation position and the installation position, said air scoops are kept attached to said free ends of said limbs of said central air-guiding element via said connecting elements.

3. The front-end part according to claim 2 , wherein

said limbs of said central air-guiding element having corresponding openings formed therein;

said air scoop has outer limbs with end sides; and

said connecting elements are hooked pegs which are injection molded onto said end sides of said outer limbs of said air scoops and are disposed directed vertically outward and snap in a hooking manner into said corresponding openings in said limbs of said central air-guiding element.

4. The front-end part according to claim 3 , wherein said air scoops can be pivoted via said hooked pegs inward in a direction of a longitudinal center plane of the vehicle in the pre-installation position and outward toward an outer side of the motor vehicle in the installation position.

5. The front-end part according to claim 2 , wherein in the pre-installation position, said air scoops are kept folded away inward together with said central air-guiding element at least on an upper limb of said limbs of said central air-guiding element.

6. The front-end part according to claim 3 , wherein:

said air scoops each have an upper connecting element and a lower connecting element; and

said lateral air-guiding elements have further limbs, and in the installation position, said air scoops can be connected with a snap fit to said further limbs of said lateral air-guiding elements via said upper connecting element and said lower connecting element.

7. The front-end part according to claim 6 , wherein said outer limbs of said air scoops include an upper limb and a lower limb, said upper connecting element is disposed on said upper limb and has a pocket-shaped receptacle with a tab which, in the installation position, engages in a holding manner over an edge of said further limb of said lateral air-guiding elements.

8. The front-end part according to claim 7 , wherein:

said further limbs of said lateral air-guiding elements each have a slot formed therein; and

said lower connecting element is disposed on said lower limb of said air scoops and has a head peg which, in the installation position, engages, to provide a snap fit, in said slot in one of said further limbs of said lateral air-guiding elements.

Assignments (6)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE NAME THAT WAS MISSING FROM THE ASSIGNMENT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 026112 FRAME 0326. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CORRECT ASSIGNEES ARE DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT AND HBPO GMBH. Recorded May 2, 2011
From: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGSELLSCHAFT
To: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGSELLSCHAFT; HBPO GMBH
Reel/Frame 026207/0682 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2011
From: HEMMERSMEIER, RALF
To: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 026112/0265 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2011
From: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: HBPO GMBH
Reel/Frame 026112/0326 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 15, 2010
From: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
To: DR. ING H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 024689/0278 →
MERGER Recorded Jul 14, 2010
From: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (COMPANY NO. 722287)
To: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
Reel/Frame 024684/0871 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 21, 2009
From: BAUERNFEIND, CHRISTOPH
To: DR. ING. H.C F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (COMPANY NO. 722287)
Reel/Frame 023403/0156 →