Abstract: An active air curtain apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a duct that is formed with a suction port, a discharge port, and an air flow path from the section port to the discharge port and that is mounted to the inner surface of a bumper of the vehicle. A flap having a plate shape is operated by being supported and guided by the duct and is configured to open and close the discharge port.

Abstract: A bumper device for a vehicle is arranged on one of a front side and a rear side of a vehicle cabin to extend in a vehicle width direction. The bumper device for a vehicle includes: a tubular portion, which is made of metal and integrally formed so as to have a tubular shape extending in the vehicle width direction; and a reinforcing member, which is formed so as to have a plate-like shape extending in the vehicle width direction along an inner surface of the tubular portion. A foamed resin charged into the tubular portion is foamed to be increased in volume, to thereby fix the reinforcing member inside the tubular portion.

Abstract: A system is disclosed for controlling an incident ambient airflow in a vehicle. The vehicle includes a vehicle body with a first vehicle body end configured to face the incident ambient airflow when the vehicle is in motion relative to a road surface. The system includes a duct providing a conduit for the incident airflow into the vehicle body. The system also includes a shutter assembly configured to control the airflow through the duct and thereby regulate a downforce acting on the first vehicle body end. The shutter assembly may include an adjustable louver, a mechanism configured to select the position for the louver between and inclusive of fully opened and fully closed, and a controller configured to regulate the mechanism. The vehicle may also have a heat-absorbing subassembly, and the duct can provide a conduit for the incident airflow to the heat-absorbing subassembly for cooling thereof.

Abstract: An airflow control device is mounted to the front end of an automotive vehicle and includes an upper air scoop section having a scoop channel disposed rearward of a bumper assembly and oriented to direct airflow entering a bumper intake opening toward an air-receiving powertrain component. A lower air dam section extends downwardly from the upper section to be positioned below a lower extent of the bumper assembly to deflect airflow away from an underside of the vehicle.

Abstract: An adjustable air diffuser is disposed in an airflow channel into which a travelling wind is directed through an opening provided in a bumper face. The diffuser opens and closes the channel by movable louver blades driven by an actuator. An upper part of the diffuser is disposed to face a rear wall of the bumper face and is attached to a bumper beam extending along a vehicle width direction. A lower part of the diffuser is attached to a vehicle body structural member. The attachment structure includes a column that is disposed behind the adjustable air diffuser. A lower end of the column is attached to a lower end of the adjustable air diffuser. Weak portions are provided on the column such that the column breaks when the column interferes with another member behind the column.

Abstract: Bumper system for a motor vehicle with a cross member which is arranged cross to longitudinal members and having a top side, a bottom side, a front side and a back side and with at least one means to ensure adequate energy impact into the cross member 2 characterized in that at least one means on the top side and/or on the bottom side of the cross member is arranged in that way that it is pointing away from the cross member wherein air can stream at least partially through a region above and/or beneath the cross member during driving of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a tail trim using a clad metal plate, and a tail trim made of a clad metal plate, which thus enables decrease in weight and improved corrosion resistance, and which further enables increased heat resistance. The method includes rolling two washed metal materials to obtain an initial clad metal plate, and then heat treating and further rolling the initial clad metal plate to obtain a final clad metal plate; pressing the final clad metal plate, thus forming a main tail trim and a housing, the housing including a tail trim upper cover and a tail trim lower cover; and subjecting the main tail trim and the housing to tungsten inert gas welding, thus manufacturing the tail trim.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a tail trim using a clad metal plate, and a tail trim made of a clad metal plate, which thus enables decrease in weight and improved corrosion resistance, and which further enables increased heat resistance. The method includes rolling two washed metal materials to obtain an initial clad metal plate, and then heat treating and further rolling the initial clad metal plate to obtain a final clad metal plate; pressing the final clad metal plate, thus forming a main tail trim and a housing, the housing including a tail trim upper cover and a tail trim lower cover; and subjecting the main tail trim and the housing to tungsten inert gas welding, thus manufacturing the tail trim.

Abstract: A bumper module including a body portion that is positioned between a front bumper cover and a heat exchanger in a vehicle front-and-rear direction and is disposed extending in a vehicle width direction and the vehicle front-and-rear direction; plural longitudinal ribs that are integrally formed on a lower surface of the body portion, extend toward a vehicle lower side, are disposed extending in the vehicle front-and-rear direction, and are lined up at intervals apart from each other in the vehicle width direction; and an air guide rib that is integrally formed on an upper surface of the body portion, extends toward a vehicle upper side, guides cooling air from a vehicle front to the heat exchanger, and whose front end is unaligned in at least one direction of the vehicle width direction and the vehicle front-and-rear direction with respect to front ends of the plural longitudinal ribs.

Abstract: Bumper system for a motor vehicle with a cross member which is arranged cross to longitudinal members and having a top side, a bottom side, a front side and a back side and with at least one means to ensure adequate energy impact into the cross member 2 characterized in that at least one means on the top side and/or on the bottom side of the cross member is arranged in that way that it is pointing away from the cross member wherein air can stream at least partially through a region above and/or beneath the cross member during driving of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a tail trim using a clad metal plate, and a tail trim made of a clad metal plate, which thus enables decrease in weight and improved corrosion resistance, and which further enables increased heat resistance. The method includes rolling two washed metal materials to obtain an initial clad metal plate, and then heat treating and further rolling the initial clad metal plate to obtain a final clad metal plate; pressing the final clad metal plate, thus forming a main tail trim and a housing, the housing including a tail trim upper cover and a tail trim lower cover; and subjecting the main tail trim and the housing to tungsten inert gas welding, thus manufacturing the tail trim.

Abstract: A soot preventing type tail trim may include a tail pipe discharging exhaust gas, and a body enclosing an outer circumference of the tail pipe with a predetermined space therebetween, such that wind may be allowed to flow into the predetermined space and to be discharged therefrom to generate a separation layer in the exhaust gas passing the tail pipe by the wind.

Abstract: Methods of and devices for providing naturally driven routing of air bleed derived from the external air pressure field typically developed about a moving vehicle were conceived. By design, internal duct ways to be used for providing an open flow path from relatively higher air pressure sources (such as that in the undercarriage region of a driven car) into lower base pressure regions (typically developed aft of blunt trailing body regions) as are generally found on road and ‘airdrop” cargo delivery air vehicles having open rear doors. Low energy air bleed flow injected into the vehicle's separated afterbody region acts to replenish entrained base flow and its base drag reduction is thereby, achieved.

Abstract: The use of a bumper faceplate with ports provides for the easy assembly, increased structural strength, and dramatically improved aesthetic appearance of an assembled bumper containing bumper components.

Abstract: An undercover for a vehicle, which covers a silencer which is disposed on a lower surface of a body of the vehicle for discharging reacted gas of a fuel-cell mounted in the vehicle, wherein an opening is formed so as to correspond in position to an open portion which is formed at an end of a discharge pipe of the silencer.

Abstract: A rear bumper assembly and a tail trim cover are disclosed herein. The rear bumper cover comprises a rear bumper cover having an exhaust hole portion, a main tail trim mounted to the exhaust hole portion, and a tail trim cover coupled to the main tail trim. Bent portions defining a gradually decreasing diameter are formed in a joint region between the main tail trim and the tail trim cover.

Abstract: The use of a bumper faceplate with ports provides for the easy assembly, increased structural strength, and dramatically improved aesthetic appearance of an assembled bumper containing bumper components.

Abstract: An exhaust tip assembly conducts hot engine exhaust from a muffler through an opening in a molded plastic bumper fascia. An exhaust pipe defining a cross-sectional flow area for the exhaust flow and has an inlet end attached to the muffler and an outlet end. The exhaust pipe has a flexible coupling portion intermediate the inlet end and the outlet end. A heat shield has a cross-sectional flow area greater than the pipe, and an inlet end attached to the outlet end of the pipe. A decorative bezel is attached to the heat shield at the outlet end of the heat shield. Fasteners fasten the heat shield to the fascia with the bezel located in the opening in the rear bumper fascia. During movement of the muffler, the bezel remains in the center of the opening as the flexible coupling portion of the exhaust pipe flexes.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a cross-current/counter-current structure, so that air which is directed across the heat exchanger is heated in the two successive rows. This design takes advantage of the temperature glide of a refrigerant blend. In this design, the hottest refrigerant blend is in contact with the hottest air, and the coldest refrigerant blend is in contact with the coldest air, leading to a lower difference between the average refrigerant blend temperature and the average air temperature compared to a pure refrigerant in a one-row heat exchanger.

Abstract: The automobile rear structure includes a diffuser which is arranged on a vehicle-body rear side of a muffler and is configured to interfere with exhaust gas discharged from the muffler so as to make a portion of the exhaust gas flow downwardly, and a flow rectification plate which is arranged below the muffler and guides the downwardly flowing exhaust gas in the direction along an air flow flowing below the floor of the vehicle body to merge the exhaust gas into the air flow. The exhaust gas discharged downwardly from a space defined between a front end portion of the diffuser and a body portion of the muffler is guided in the direction inclined downwardly toward the rear side of the vehicle body and, thereafter, is guided in the direction along the air flow flowing below the floor of the vehicle body, and is merged into the air flow.

Abstract: A gas exhaust structure of a fuel-cell-powered vehicle includes a recess formed in a rear bumper with a surrounding wall. An opening of the recess is covered with louvers to allow ventilation, thereby to form a chamber. A discharge end of the discharge pipe is mounted to the chamber. An exhaust gas including hydrogen is guided through the discharge pipe into the chamber and is emitted from the opening to the outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: An exhaust system provided with a tail pipe arrangement which extends adjacent to a wall part of a body of a motor vehicle, so that the exhaust system or the tail pipe arrangement, on the one hand, has sufficient space for relative movements and, on the other hand, is integrated in the visible dimensional structure of the vehicle body, viewed in the driving direction, the tail pipe arrangement is situated by a free end in front of the wall part, and, viewed from the rearward side of the motor vehicle upon the tail pipe arrangement, a first countour of an end area of the wall part corresponds basically at least in sections with an exterior second contour of the tail pipe arrangement.

Abstract: A front end structure of a vehicle for preventing heat from going around to before a heat exchanger (or vehicle) while reducing the damage of a shock which may be imparted on the front end portion of the vehicle is disclosed. Gaps are formed between a panel wall portion and a bumper cover, between the panel wall portion and a grille, between a bumper wall portion and the panel, and between a grille wall portion and the panel. At the same time, labyrinth structures are configured of the panel wall portion and the bumper wall portion on the one hand and the panel wall portion and the grille wall portion on the other hand. As a result, heat is prevented from going (flowing) around to before the heat exchanger (or vehicle) while at the same time reducing the damage under a shock which may be imparted on the front end portion of the vehicle.

Abstract: A fresh air duct system for a vehicle that includes an engine air cleaner with an attached conduit for passing fresh air into the air cleaner. The system includes a bumper beam that has elongated upper and lower air passageways that can be in fluid flow communication with the conduit for defining an air flow path between the air cleaner and the passageways. Fresh air can be introduced into the air duct system such that at least one of the air flow passageways can simultaneously act as a sound resonator and a resonator tuner.

Abstract: An air intake for feeding air to an engine, in which a tubular structure is associated with the cross-member of a vehicle body via a port connected to an aperture in the cross-member. Atmospheric air is drawn through it, along a path external to the engine compartment, and through an induction structure provided within the engine compartment, the tubular structure also acts as a stiffening frame for the vehicle bumper.

Abstract: A passenger motor vehicle rear section includes body parts extending adjacent the road surface and an apron which is so constructed that it performs a protective function for traffic participants who follow the vehicle as well as covering body parts and/or aggregates of the passenger motor vehicle and additionally is aerodynamically designed; the apron has the shape of a plate which extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction, is arranged at a distance to the body parts and is secured at the latter.

Abstract: A motor vehicle has a radiator for the liquid of the engine cooling circuit supported by the front part of the motor vehicle bodywork, and a conveyor for air for cooling the radiator having a part which is movable resiliently towards the front part of the bodywork in the case of a frontal collision of the vehicle.

Abstract: The device of this invention comprises an air induction passage for directing air upwardly rearwardly and a planar anti-lift member. The device is mounted at the front bumper, near a headlamp, or at rear bumper, or air dam skirts or at the rear of the radiator grille without substantial alterations of the vehicle's general contour lines. An anti-lift thrust is generated by lowering the point at which the front airstream splits up into an upper stream which moves over the upper surface of the vehicle and a lower stream which moves below the bottom of the vehicle, whereby the vehicle's power of adherence to the ground at the front wheels is increased. The vehicle's adherence power at the rear wheels is also increased by directing the airstream flowing below the vehicle bottom surface upwardly rearwardly of the vehicle. The impact absorbing capability of the vehicle is increased by forming the air induction passage with a resilient material to make the air passage act as an impact absorbing member.