MOTOR VEHICLE REAR SPOILER ARRANGEMENT

• US 20180099704A1
• Filed: 10/06/2017
• Published: 04/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Weiss, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 10,173,737 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 29/043 Superstructures B62D25/161 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 29/048 Connections therefor, e.g. joints B62D29/045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/007 Rear spoilers B62D35/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/82 Elements for improving aerodynamics

Abstract

A motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement includes a spoiler wing movable between a retracted inoperative position and an extended working position; a supporting body structure that defines a body recess; a recess cover that at least partially closes the body recess; and a support arrangement configured to support the spoiler wing (in its inoperative position on the recess cover. The support arrangement includes an elastic buffer element on a lower side of the spoiler wing, a support surface on an upper side of the recess cover, wherein the buffer element rests in the inoperative position on the support surface, and a separate supporting body arranged in the body recess and that supports a lower side of the recess cover in a region of the support surface on the body structure.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement, comprising:

a spoiler wing movable between a retracted inoperative position and an extended working position;

a supporting body structure that defines a body recess;

a recess cover that at least partially closes the body recess; and

a support arrangement configured to support the spoiler wing (in its inoperative position on the recess cover,

wherein the support arrangement includes;

an elastic buffer element on a lower side of the spoiler wing,

a support surface on an upper side of the recess cover, wherein the buffer element rests in the inoperative position on the support surface, and

a separate supporting body arranged in the body recess and that supports a lower side of the recess cover in a region of the support surface on the body structure.

2. The motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the recess cover is formed from a plastics cover body, and

wherein a supporting body receptacle into which a supporting body head can be inserted is located on the lower side of the recess cover.

3. The motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the supporting body receptacle is formed by a thin-walled cage having a wall thickness of at most 0.8 times a wall thickness of the recess cover.

4. The motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the supporting body receptacle is undercut in such a manner that the supporting body head is fixed in a proximal and distal direction by the supporting body receptacle.

5. The motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the buffer element is formed by a separate buffer body which plugs in a plug-in opening of the spoiler wing.

6. The motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the supporting surface of the supporting body head is larger than an impact surface of the buffer element.

7. The motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement (as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support surface is formed by a smooth distal surface of the recess cover.

8. The motor vehicle rear spoiler arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the supporting body consists of a fiber-reinforced plastics body.