Vehicular mud guard structure

• US 10,457,335 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2018
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kishima, Fumihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Vanaman, Frank B
• Application Number:
  US16/046,489
• Publication Number:
  US 20180327034A1
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/18 Parts or details thereof, e.g. mudguard flaps
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/02 Streamlining the undersurfaces B62D35/005, B62D35/007, B62D35/008 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/88 Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses

Abstract

A mud guard portion is placed on a vehicle rear side relative to a rear tire. This makes it possible to restrain mud or the like splashed by the rear tire from hitting an underfloor. Further, an inside flow regulating portion is provided adjacently to an inner side of the mud guard portion in the vehicle width direction, and the inside flow regulating portion extends from its upper end toward a vehicle lower side and toward the vehicle rear side. Hereby, when a travel wind flowing on an inner side of the rear tire in the vehicle width direction in the wheel house hits the inside flow regulating portion, the travel wind flows toward the vehicle rear side along a deflection wall portion of the inside flow regulating portion. Accordingly, turbulence of the air on a vehicle rear side of the rear tire due to the travel wind is restrained.

Claims

1. A vehicular mud guard structure comprising:

a mud guard portion provided in a rear end of a wheel house in which a wheel assembly is placed, the mud guard portion having a plate shape such that a width direction of the mud guard portion extends along a vehicle width direction, the mud guard portion having a lower end that projects toward a vehicle lower side and that extends below an underfloor on a vehicle rear side of the wheel house; and

an end flow regulating portion extending from an inner part of the mud guard portion in the vehicle width direction toward the vehicle rear side from the mud guard portion, the end flow regulating portion being curved and inclined towards the vehicle rear side as the end flow regulating portion extends towards an inner side in the vehicle width direction, wherein;

the end flow regulating portion has a plate shape; and

a rear end of the end flow regulating portion is provided with a hole portion that penetrates the end flow regulating portion in a plate-thickness direction of the end flow regulating portion.

2. The vehicular mud guard structure according to claim 1, wherein the rear end of the end flow regulating portion is provided with a plurality of convex portions and a plurality of concave portions.

3. The vehicular mud guard structure according to claim 1, further comprising:

a projection portion projecting inwardly in the vehicle width direction is formed in the rear end of the end flow regulating portion.