Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – With distinct wind deflector
Patent
1994-10-31
1996-08-13
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
With distinct wind deflector
2961805, B62D 3500
Patent
active
055449310
ABSTRACT:
There is provided an aerodynamic stabilizer assembly adapted to be mounted in the rear portion of the roof of a motor vehicle. The assembly includes a framework having a front edge and partitioned to define separate openings. A pair of elongated air deflection panels each sized to cover one of the framework openings and each air deflection panel being pivotedly mounted to the framework along a longitudinal axis at the front edge of the assembly framework and being pivotable between a lowered passive position and a raised active position. The assembly framework also includes a restraint for limiting the upward rotational movement of the rear edge of each of the panels beyond the raised active position. There is also provided a deflection plate mounted along the left side of the assembly framework and a rear air deflector located on and adjacent to the rear window and extending from the roof to the rear deck. When a motor vehicle is moving at a high rate of speed and is spinning out the low pressure of the air moving across the roof creates a pressure differential which acts on the panels and causes the panels to rotate to the active raised position thereby resulting in a downward force urging the motor vehicle against the road.
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National Association For Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc.
Pedder Dennis H.
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