Abstract: A vehicle glass includes an outer surface and an inner surface opposing the outer surface. A circumferential edge joins the inner and outer surfaces. The edge has at least, in part, a generally planar portion connected to the outer surface by an outer corner and connected to the inner surface by an inner corner. The planar portion is disposed at an acute angle with respect to the outer surface. Furthermore, the outer corner also has a radius less than one half the thickness of the vehicle glass.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 10, 2000
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2003
Assignee:
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors:
Takeshi Yamamoto, Akihiko Kuribayashi, Michael Peterson, Antoine Kmeid
Abstract: A bicycle fairing comprises a blunt molded body shield having a upstanding, rearwardly sloping, flexible, transparent windshield attached thereto. The body shield has a blunt end extending outwardly therefrom having an axis passing therethrough forming an angle with the rearwardly sloping windshield from a side elevation which is more than twice the angle of a rearwardly sloping lower surface of the shield. The body portion of the fairing above the axis in side elevation is approximately twice the length of the fairing extending below the axis. Accordingly, the windshield is high enough to shield the rider while the fairing extends downwardly enough to prevent airflow from coming up from the bottom onto the rider. The fairing is mounted at four fixed points at its extremeties for maximum rigidity and is easily adjustable and removable or can be permanently installed.