US 11,794,824 B2
Vehicle air guide path structure and air guide path forming member
Ryuji Nozaki, Tokyo (JP); Kazuyuki Kotsuka, Tokyo (JP); Hideki Hata, Tokyo (JP); Kenji Watanuki, Tokyo (JP); and Koushi Yamada, Odawara (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/526,620.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-190674 (JP), filed on Nov. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0153358 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 35/00 (2006.01); B62D 35/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 35/008 (2013.01) [B62D 35/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle air guide path structure in which a vertically long air guide path forming member is provided to be vertically long along an outer edge of a side surface portion of a vehicle body of a vehicle on a rear side of a wheel house of the vehicle, a vertically long air guide path is formed by the vertically long air guide path forming member at the rear side of the wheel house, and the vertically long air guide path is configured to suction air from the wheel house and exhaust air along a side surface of the vehicle body, the vehicle air guide path structure comprising:
a partition member that partitions the vertically long air guide path so as to form a plurality of sections in an upper-lower direction,
wherein a vertically long inclined surface is formed on the side surface portion of the vehicle body at a rear side of the vertically long air guide path, and
wherein the partition member protrudes to a rear side from the vertically long air guide path,
wherein the partition member includes:
an inclined portion that is lowered forward toward an introduction port of the vertically long air guide path; and
a flat portion that extends from a rear end of the inclined portion along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body.