US 12,296,894 B2
Undercarriage panelling element for a vehicle and arrangement of an undercarriage panelling on a structure of the vehicle
Stefan Fuggmann, Stuttgart (DE); Jochen Schmid, Notzingen (DE); and Ralph Manegold, Calw-Stammheim (DE)
Assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/927,273
Filed by Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed May 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/061941
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 22, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/239425, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 003 192.7 (DE), filed on May 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0347993 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 35/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 35/02 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An undercarriage panelling element (24) of a vehicle (10), comprising:
a first air guidance region (28);
a second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″) that is attached to the first air guidance region (28) rearwards in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle (20) and angled away from the first air guidance region (28) such that the second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″) rises relative to the first air guidance region (28) in a vertical direction of the vehicle; and
a flow separation edge (36) that is attached to the second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″), wherein on the flow separation edge (36) an air flow guided along the second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″) comes off in a defined manner when the vehicle (10) is travelling forwards and wherein the flow separation edge (36) is disposed behind the second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″) in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle (20) and extends downwards away from the second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″) over its entire extension running in the vertical direction of the vehicle in parallel or obliquely to the vertical direction of the vehicle (32) such that the flow separation edge (36) extends downwards away from the second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″) in the vertical direction of the vehicle and such that the flow separation edge (36) is a jut of the undercarriage panelling element (24) pointing downwards in the vertical direction of the vehicle starting from a rear end of the second air guidance region (30, 30′, 30″);
wherein a rear axle (12) of the vehicle on which wheels (14) are mounted is disposed behind the undercarriage panelling element (24) in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle (20) and wherein the rear axle (12) is at least partially covered downwards in the vertical direction of the vehicle (32) by a further panelling element (38a, 38b, 38c) disposed behind the undercarriage panelling element (24) in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle (20).