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Granted Patent B2
US 9,352,792 · App. 14/426,559 · Granted May 31, 2016

Vehicle lower structure

Inventors: Keita Ito (Nisshin, JP); Shinya Watanabe (Seto, JP); Hirokatsu Fukunaga (Miyoshi, JP); Akihiko Ishikawa (Miyoshi, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B62D35/02B62D25/18
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Patent No.
US 9,352,792
App. No.
14/426,559
Granted
May 31, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle lower structure includes a plurality of spat body portions and a guide portion. The spat body portions are provided side by side in a vehicle longitudinal direction on a vehicle front side of a wheel, are protruded from an underfloor of the vehicle toward a vehicle lower side, and extend in a vehicle width direction. The guide portion constitutes vehicle-width-direction outer regions of the spat body portions in at least one of second and subsequent rows from a vehicle rear side, is inclined toward the vehicle rear side and outward in the vehicle width direction to guide a traveling wind, and has a vehicle-width-direction outer end that is arranged more outward in the vehicle width direction than a vehicle-width-direction outer end of the spat body portion that is adjacent to the vehicle rear side.

Claims (10)

1. A vehicle lower structure comprising:

a plurality of spat body portions that are provided side by side in a vehicle longitudinal direction on a vehicle front side of a wheel, are protruded from an underfloor of the vehicle toward a vehicle lower side, and extend in a vehicle width direction; and a guide portion that constitutes vehicle-width-direction outer regions of the spat body portions in at least one of second and subsequent rows from a vehicle rear side, is inclined toward the vehicle rear side and outward in the vehicle width direction to guide a traveling wind, and has a vehicle-width-direction outer end that is arranged more outward in the vehicle width direction than a vehicle-width-direction outer end of the spat body portion that is adjacent to the vehicle rear side.

2. The vehicle lower structure according to claim 1 , wherein

a spacing distance between vehicle-width-direction outer ends of a pair of the spat body portions that are adjacent to each other in the vehicle longitudinal direction is set shorter than a spacing distance between the pair of the spat body portions in the vehicle longitudinal direction.

3. The vehicle lower structure according to claim 1 , wherein

at least one of opposed faces of a pair of the spat body portions that are adjacent to each other in the vehicle longitudinal direction is inclined in such a direction as to move away from the opposed spat body portion with decrease in distance to the vehicle lower side.

4. The vehicle lower structure according to claim 3 , wherein

a spacing distance between vehicle-width-direction outer ends of the pair of the spat body portions that are adjacent to each other in the vehicle longitudinal direction is set shorter than a spacing distance between the pair of the spat body portions in the vehicle.

5. The vehicle lower structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the vehicle-width-direction outer end of the guide portion is arranged closer to the vehicle rear side than the vehicle-width-direction outer end of the spat body portion that is adjacent to the vehicle rear side.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2015
From: ITO, KEITA; WATANABE, SHINYA; FUKUNAGA, HIROKATSU; ISHIKAWA, AKIHIKO
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 035103/0842 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-270575 · Dec 11, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150274224A1 · Oct 1, 2015