IP Library Granted Patent US 11,891,128
Granted Patent B2
US 11,891,128 · App. 18/063,313 · Granted Feb 6, 2024

Vehicle spat device

Inventors: Ryota Tachi (Kariya, JP); Kenji Hori (Kariya, JP); Shuhei Uchida (Kariya, JP)
Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
B62D37/02
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Patent No.
US 11,891,128
App. No.
18/063,313
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle spat device includes: a spat that rotatably supported by a first rotation shaft and configured to be displaced between a deployment position and a storage position; and a link unit transmitting power of an actuator to the spat. The link unit includes a drive link rotating integrally with a drive shaft when the actuator is driven, and an intermediate link connected to the spat via a second rotation shaft and connected to the drive link via a third rotation shaft. The drive link rotates around the drive shaft between a first position where the spat is disposed at the storage position and a second position where the spat is disposed at the deployment position. In the drive link, the first position is a position rotated from a first neutral position in a first rotation direction.

Claims (13)

1. A vehicle spat device comprising:

a spat that is rotatably supported by a first rotation shaft whose axial direction is a vehicle width direction and a second rotation shaft whose axial direction is the vehicle width direction, and is configured to be displaced between a deployment position in which the spat deploys to a space in front of a vehicle wheel and a storage position in which the spat retracts from the space in front of the vehicle wheel;

a first link connected to the spat via the first rotation shaft;

a second link connected to the spat via the second rotation shaft;

an actuator that transmits power to the spat; and

a controller that controls the actuator, wherein

in a case where the spat is located at the deployment position, the first link and the second link move the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft to the rear of a vehicle as compared with a case where the spat is located at the storage position.

2. The vehicle spat device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a housing that rotatably supports the first link and the second link, wherein

the first link and the second link constitute a 4-section link mechanism together with the housing and the spat,

when the first link and the second link are used to displace the spat between the storage position and the deployment position, an amount of rotation of the second link is set larger than an amount of rotation of the first link.

3. The vehicle spat device according to claim 2 , wherein

the controller controls the actuator to rotationally move the second link and displaces the spat between the deployment position and the storage position.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 8, 2022
From: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: AISIN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063742/0597 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2022
From: TACHI, RYOTA; HORI, KENJI; UCHIDA, SHUHEI
To: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 062028/0083 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2019-205379 · Nov 13, 2019 · national
JP 2020-022371 · Feb 13, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17096216 · Nov 12, 2020
Related Publication 20230102265A1 · Mar 30, 2023
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