US 12,473,040 B2
Deflector device
Kazuyuki Yokoyama, Aichi (JP); Masahide Inayama, Aichi (JP); Daisuke Nakayama, Aichi (JP); Nobuhiro Kudo, Aichi (JP); Toshiya Ito, Aichi (JP); and Kazunori Tanaka, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Niwa-gun (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/159,182.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-014378 (JP), filed on Feb. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242192 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 35/00 (2006.01); B62D 35/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 35/005 (2013.01) [B62D 35/02 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deflector device comprising:
a deflector body configured to be deployed in front of a front wheel of a vehicle by being rotated in a deploy direction to suppress airflow onto the front wheel and configured to be stowed in a vehicle body by being rotated in a stow direction;
a support body configured to rotatably support the deflector body; and
a cover portion provided at the support body and covering an entire divide in a rotation axis direction of the deflector body between the deflector body and the support body at at least one of an upper side or a lower side of the entire divide in a rotation radial direction of the deflector body.