Passenger motor vehicle with rear-side air guiding device

• US 8,113,571 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2011
• Issued: 02/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Goenueldinc, Okan
• Primary Examiner(s): LYJAK, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US13/007,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20110169299A1
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 296/180.1, 296/180.2, 296/180.3, 296/180.4, 296/180.5
• US Class Current: 296/180.5
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/007 Rear spoilers B62D35/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/82 Elements for improving aerodynamics

Abstract

A passenger motor vehicle has an air guiding device (8) mounted at a rear end of the vehicle and moveable relative to the rear end by a setting-out mechanism (7). A mounting element (11) connects the setting-out mechanism (7) at a downwardly open depression (12) at an underside region of the air guiding device (8). The mounting element (11) is hooked into the air guiding device (8) in a first region (13), and is connected to the air guiding device (8) by a screw connection (21) in a second region (15). The design enables particularly simple, cheap and fast mounting of the setting-out mechanism in the air guiding device (8).

Claims

1. A passenger motor vehicle having an air guiding device mounted in a rear end of the vehicle and being moveable relative to the rear end by at least one setting-out mechanism, the air guiding device having an underside region formed with at least one downwardly open depression, a mounting element mounted in the downwardly open depression of the air guiding device and connecting the setting-out mechanism to the underside region of the air guiding device, the mounting element having a first region that is hooked into the air guiding device and a second region connected to the air guiding device by a screw connection.

2. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the air guiding device is a wing or spoiler blade.

3. The vehicle of claim 2, wherein the air guiding device has a receptacle for plugging in a projection of the mounting element.

4. The vehicle of claim 3, wherein the receptacle or the projection is aligned substantially in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

5. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the first region of the mounting element is rearward of the second region of the mounting element.

6. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the mounting element is formed in one piece.

7. The vehicle of claim 6, wherein the mounting element is a sheet-metal part.

8. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the downwardly open depression of the air guiding device extends substantially as far as an upper wall of the air guiding device, and the mounting element extends through the depression.

9. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the mounting element has first and second spaced apart plates, the first plate being hooked into the air guiding device and the second plate being screwed to a recessed region of the air guiding device, a region of the mounting element between the first and second plates extending through the downwardly open depression of the air guiding device and receiving the setting-out mechanism.

10. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the setting-out mechanism is mounted in the mounting element by a joint arranged within the depression of the air guiding device.

11. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the mounting element is connected to the air guiding device by a single screw.

12. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the at least one setting-out mechanism comprises two setting-out mechanisms spaced transversely from one another at transverse end regions of the air guiding device.

13. A passenger motor vehicle having a rear end and opposite left and right sides, an air guiding device mounted in proximity to the rear end of the vehicle and having opposite left and right ends in proximity to the left and right sides of the vehicle, the air guiding device being moveable relative to the rear end by left and right setting-out mechanisms, the air guiding device having an underside region formed with downwardly open depressions, mounting element mounted respectively in the downwardly open depressions of the air guiding device and connecting the setting-out mechanisms to the underside region of the air guiding device, each of the mounting elements having a first region that is hooked into the air guiding device and a second region connected to the air guiding device by a screw connection.

14. The vehicle of claim 13, wherein the air guiding device is a wing or spoiler blade.

15. The vehicle of claim 14, wherein the first region of each mounting element is rearward of the second region of each mounting element.

16. The vehicle of claim 13, wherein the downwardly open depressions of the air guiding device extend substantially to an upper wall of the air guiding device, and the mounting elements extend through the depressions.

17. The vehicle of claim 16, wherein each of the mounting elements (11) has first and second spaced apart plates (13, 15), the first plate (13) being hooked into the air guiding device (8) and the second plate (15) being screwed to a recessed region (16) of the air guiding device (8), a region (17) of each of the mounting elements (11) between the respective first and second plates (13, 15) extending through the downwardly open depression (12) of the air guiding device (8) and receiving the respective setting-out mechanism (7).