IP Library Granted Patent US 9,586,537
Granted Patent B2
US 9,586,537 · App. 14/827,547 · Granted Mar 7, 2017

Vehicle undercover

Inventor: Ryosuke Abe (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
B60R13/0861
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,586,537
App. No.
14/827,547
Granted
Mar 7, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle undercover is disclosed which avoids giving an excessive impact on an object that collides with a vehicle in a vehicle collision. The vehicle undercover includes: an installation surface to be attached to a bracket; a vertical wall surface that is bent at a front edge of the installation surface and extends downward; and a bottom wall surface that is bent at a lower edge of the vertical wall surface and extends in a front direction of the vehicle. The vehicle undercover further includes easily-deformable portions that are formed in a vehicle width direction at least at a corner portion between the installation surface and the vertical wall surface and at a corner portion between the vertical wall surface and the bottom wall surface, respectively, and that allow the respective corner portions to bend easily.

Claims (6)

1. A vehicle undercover configured to cover a bottom part of a front portion of a vehicle body of an automobile and including a front end portion to be fixed to a fixing portion of the front portion of the vehicle body, the vehicle undercover comprising:

an installation surface to be attached to a vehicle body member;

a vertical wall surface that is bent at a front edge of the installation surface and extends downward;

a bottom wall surface that is bent at a lower edge of the vertical wall surface and extends in a front direction of the vehicle body; and

easily-deformable portions at least at a corner portion between the installation surface and the vertical wall surface and at a corner portion between the vertical wall surface and the bottom wall surface, respectively, each easily-deformable portion being formed in a vehicle width direction to allow the corner portion to bend easily.

2. The vehicle undercover according to claim 1 , wherein the vertical wall surface is an inclined surface that extends obliquely downward as the vertical wall surface extends in the front direction of the automobile.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 17, 2015
From: ABE, RYOSUKE
To: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 036338/0017 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-167388 · Aug 20, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160052555A1 · Feb 25, 2016