US 12,420,627 B2
Vehicle
Keisuke Kondoh, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/214,723.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-140669 (JP), filed on Sep. 5, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0075805 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. B60K 11/08 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 11/08 (2013.01) 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a grille opening that is provided in a center of a design panel in a vehicle width direction at a front end of the vehicle and that introduces cooling air;
a radiator air guide duct that guides the cooling air introduced from the grille opening to a radiator;
a brake duct that is connected to each end of the radiator air guide duct in the vehicle width direction and that guides a part of the cooling air flowing into the radiator air guide duct toward a brake of a front wheel; and
a backflow suppression plate configured to:
protrude from a center side plate of the brake duct or a rear plate of the radiator air guide duct toward an inner side of the brake duct; and
suppress hot air after passing through the radiator from flowing back through the brake duct and from flowing toward an upstream side of the radiator.