US 12,312,021 B2
Vehicle having a spoiler and method for mounting a spoiler on a vehicle
Falco Hollmann, Garching (DE); Helmut Schaffer, Fuerstenfeldbruck (DE); and Bernt Arne Syvertsen, Poing (DE)
Assigned to B ayerische M otoren W erke A ktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/928,676
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 28, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/067607
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/028775, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 120 855.3 (DE), filed on Aug. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0211835 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 35/00 (2006.01); B62D 65/16 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 35/007 (2013.01) [B62D 65/16 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle, comprising:
a spoiler;
an outer-skin component of the vehicle;
clip elements provided on the outer-skin component;
mating clip elements of the spoiler, wherein
the clip elements are in engagement with corresponding ones of the mating clip elements,
the clip elements have an end stop in a z-direction, which is directed transversely in relation to a surface of the outer-skin component; and
an intermediate element arranged between the spoiler and the outer-skin component, which intermediate element is elastically compressed in the z-direction and pushes the spoiler against the end stop, wherein
the spoiler is a shell component having an outer shell, which forms a visible side of the spoiler, and a lower shell, which is directed toward the vehicle, and
the end stop makes contact with a surface of the lower shell.