US 11,731,711 B2
Vehicle front structure
Shunsuke Uno, Hiroshima (JP); Seiji Odan, Hiroshima (JP); Kei Ikeda, Hiroshima (JP); Satoshi Okamoto, Hiroshima (JP); Yosuke Morikawa, Hiroshima (JP); Akihiro Nakata, Hiroshima (JP); and Masafumi Aburame, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Apr. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/711,263.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-067800 (JP), filed on Apr. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0324523 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 35/02 (2006.01); B62D 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 35/02 (2013.01) [B62D 35/005 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle front structure that includes a deflector projected downward from a lower surface of a front bumper face at a position in front of a front wheel house, wherein
the deflector includes:
an air introducing section, through which air is introduced into a space inside the deflector, in a front portion of the deflector; and
an intermediate-speed wind generating hole section that communicates with the air introducing section and generates an airflow at an intermediate wind speed in an area not opposing a tire in a vehicle front view of a portion immediately behind the deflector, the wind speed of the airflow being lower than a wind speed of air separated from a deflector outer edge and higher than a wind speed of air in the front wheel house.