US 12,221,170 B2
Deflector device
Kazuya Umino, Aichi (JP); Kazuyuki Yokoyama, Aichi (JP); Nobuhiro Kudo, Aichi (JP); and Shigeki Yoshida, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Aug. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/896,371.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-141663 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0065474 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 35/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 35/02 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deflector device, comprising:
a deflector body configured to be deployed at a front side of a front wheel of a vehicle by being rotated in a deployment direction so as to suppress airflow toward the front wheel, and configured to be stowed in a vehicle body by being rotated in a stowing direction;
a rotator configured to cause the deflector body to rotate due to the deflector body being coupled to a vehicle body side, and configured to permit rotation of the deflector body in the stowing direction due to an external force acting on the deflector body so as to release coupling of the deflector body to the vehicle body side;
an urger configured to couple the deflector body to the vehicle body side from anywhere over an entire rotatable range of the deflector body in the stowing direction by urging the deflector body in the deployment direction when the coupling of the deflector body to the vehicle body side has been released; and
an urging section configured to urge between a deflector body side and the vehicle body side so as to limit movement of the deflector body with respect to the vehicle body side.