RADIATOR GUARD FOR A VEHICLE AND VEHICLE HAVING SUCH A RADIATOR GUARD

• US 20150102627A1
• Filed: 12/23/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: PICKARTZ, Thomas, GRIMM, Hergen
• Granted Patent: US 9,415,696 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/97.22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/00 Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units B60K7/00 takes precedence; arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion B60K6/00; electric transmission arrangements B60K17/12; electric equipment or propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles per se B60L; current-collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L5/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/05 Inlet covers
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0507 Arrangements for adjusting the inlet cover
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/36 Temperature of vehicle components or parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/32 of electricity
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/34 of parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/16 Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/52 Radiator or grille guards ; Radiator grilles cooling aspects B60K11/08
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2019/525 Radiator grilles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A radiator guard for a vehicle, particularly a motor vehicle, which is arranged on the front end of the vehicle and covers one or a plurality of units and/or devices arranged in the engine compartment of the vehicle. The radiator guard is formed advantageously in multiple parts, wherein to avoid an opening in the visible region thereof at least one part of the radiator guard is designed so as to be adjustable relative to the other part(s), thus allowing access to at least one of said units and/or devices.

Claims

1. A radiator guard for a vehicle, the radiator guard being arranged on a front end of the vehicle and covers one or more units and/or devices arranged in the engine compartment of the vehicle, the radiator guard being configured of multiple parts, and to avoid an opening in a visible area thereof at least one part of the radiator guard is formed so as to be adjustable relative to the other part(s) thereby enabling access to at least one of the units and/or devices.

2. The radiator guard according to claim 1, wherein the radiator guard has a support part supporting at least one first cover part fixedly arranged on the support part, and at least one second cover part relatively adjustable to it.

3. The radiator guard according to claim 2, wherein the cover parts have one or more bars formed in a manner of a grille or radiator guard grille.

4. The radiator guard according to claim 2, wherein the cover parts are arranged one behind the other when viewed in a transverse vehicle direction or one above the other when viewed in a vertical vehicle direction.

5. The radiator guard according to claim 2, wherein the at least one adjustable second cover part in a first operating position (normal position) with the at least one first cover part fixedly arranged on the support part, forms an aligned visible side of the radiator guard.

6. The radiator guard according to claim 2, wherein the at least one adjustable second cover part in a second operating position (open position) is arranged in a plane that is arranged parallel, virtually parallel, or at an angle to the plane of the normal position.

7. The radiator guard according to claim 2, wherein the at least one adjustable second cover part is formed slidable and/or pivotable relative to the at least one first cover part fixedly arranged on the support part.

8. The radiator guard according to claim 2, wherein the at least one adjustable second cover part forms at least proportionally a joint to one or more adjacent parts of the vehicle.

9. The radiator guard according to claim 2, wherein the at least one adjustable second cover part is arranged in an area of the radiator guard that covers a media connecting device arranged on the engine compartment side, particularly a charging socket for supplying an electrical storage unit with electrical current.

10. A vehicle, particularly a motor vehicle, comprising a radiator guard according to claim 1.