AERODYNAMIC STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE
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Abstract
An aerodynamic device for a vehicle that can effectively adjust airflow within a wheel house is obtained. A fixed aerodynamic stabilizer device 10 is formed at a vehicle body longitudinal direction rear side of a rotational axis of a front wheel 15 within a wheel house 16, as a step having an airflow collision groove wall that faces downward in a vehicle body vertical direction. This fixed aerodynamic stabilizer device 10 suppresses flowing-in, into the wheel house 16, of airflow F that is generated accompanying the front wheel 15 rotating in a direction of arrow R.
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42 Claims
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- 14. An aerodynamic structure for a vehicle, comprising a step portion having an airflow collision groove wall that faces downward in a vehicle body vertical direction, the step portion being provided at a vehicle body longitudinal direction rear side of a rotational axis of a wheel within a wheel house, wherein the step portion further has an airflow guiding wall that extends downward in the vehicle body vertical direction from a vehicle body longitudinal direction rear end portion at the airflow collision groove wall.
- 15. An aerodynamic structure for a vehicle, wherein an aerodynamic stabilizer for adjusting airflow that accompanies rotation of a wheel within a wheel house is formed, at a vehicle body longitudinal direction rear side of a rotational axis of a wheel, as a step portion that faces downward in a vehicle body vertical direction at a vehicle body structural member that extends along the vehicle body vertical direction, and the step portion further has an airflow guiding wall that extends downward in the vehicle body vertical direction from a vehicle body longitudinal direction rear end portion at the aerodynamic stabilizer.
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20. An aerodynamic structure for a vehicle, comprising a width direction groove that is provided along a vehicle width direction only at a vehicle body longitudinal direction rear side of a rotational shaft of a wheel at an inner surface side of a wheel house at whose inner side the wheel is disposed, and that opens toward the wheel,
the width direction groove being structured to have: -
a guide groove wall inclined from an edge portion of an open end that faces the wheel at the width direction groove, toward a downstream side in a direction of rotation of the wheel, so as to gradually move away from an outer peripheral surface of the wheel; and an airflow collision groove wall extending from an end portion side that is away from the outer peripheral surface of the wheel at the guide groove wall, toward another edge portion of the open end. - View Dependent Claims (21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41)
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22. An aerodynamic structure for a vehicle, comprising a width direction groove that is provided along a vehicle width direction at a portion that is positioned rearward, in a vehicle body longitudinal direction, of a wheel at an inner surface side of a wheel house at whose inner side the wheel is disposed, and that opens toward the wheel,
wherein the width direction groove has a guide groove wall that extends rearward in a vehicle body longitudinal direction and upward in a vehicle body vertical direction from a vehicle body vertical direction bottom edge at an open end of the width direction groove, and an airflow collision groove wall that extends frontward in the vehicle body longitudinal direction from a top rear end of the guide groove wall.
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