IP Library Granted Patent US 11,459,039
Granted Patent B2
US 11,459,039 · App. 16/685,004 · Granted Oct 4, 2022

Vehicular under cover

Inventors: Kazuya Matsushita (Toyota, JP); Katsuhisa Hirano (Toyota, JP); Hiromichi Sato (Nagoya, JP); Go Kuroyanagi (Toyota, JP); Yuya Chono (Toyota, JP); Hisashi Jufuku (Toyota, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B62D35/02B62D25/2009
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Patent No.
US 11,459,039
App. No.
16/685,004
Granted
Oct 4, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicular under cover includes an oblong hole-shaped through-hole and is assembled to a lower side of a vehicle so as to cover a lower part of the heat source. In a plan view, the through-hole is formed so that a longitudinal direction of the through-hole is inclined with respect to a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The inclination excludes an orthogonal direction to the front-rear direction of the vehicle.

Claims (9)

1. A vehicular under cover comprising:

a pair of oblong-shaped through-holes, wherein the vehicular under cover is attached to a lower side of a vehicle so as to cover a lower part of an exhaust pipe of the vehicle, longitudinal direction of each of the through holes is inclined with respect to a front-rear direction of the vehicle in a plane view, and an inclination excludes an orthogonal direction to the front-rear direction of the vehicle, wherein:

the inclination is set so that a distance between a front side of adjacent through holes of the through holes is greater than a distance between rear sides of the corresponding through holes;

when the vehicle is running a pressure in an external space of the vehicular under cover below the exhaust pipe is lower than a pressure of an internal space of the vehicular under cover below the exhaust pipe;

the vehicular under cover is under the exhaust pipe;

hot air heated by the exhaust pipe is released to an outside of the vehicle.

2. The vehicular under cover according to claim 1 , wherein each of the through-holes is formed directly below the exhaust pipe.

3. The vehicular under cover according to claim 1 , wherein an upper edge of each of the through-holes is flush with an upper surface of the vehicle under cover.

4. The vehicular under cover according to claim 1 , wherein the inclination is 45-degrees.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 15, 2019
From: MATSUSHITA, KAZUYA; HIRANO, KATSUHISA; SATO, HIROMICHI; KUROYANAGI, GO; CHONO, YUYA; JUFUKU, HISASHI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 051041/0293 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-216331 · Nov 19, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200156565A1 · May 21, 2020
Cited By (1)
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