Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – With distinct wind deflector
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-14
2010-10-12
Patel, Kiran B. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
With distinct wind deflector
C296S181500
Reexamination Certificate
active
07810867
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle with a drag-reducing outer surface. A method of reducing aerodynamic or hydrodynamic drag on a vehicle includes the steps of: providing an outer surface on a body of the vehicle, with the outer surface including spaced apart turbulence-inducing structures thereon. The structures cause boundary layer separation to be delayed along a length of the body, thereby reducing a drag coefficient of the body. A vehicle wrapping product for reducing aerodynamic or hydrodynamic drag on a vehicle includes an outer surface for applying onto an opaque portion of a body of the vehicle. The outer surface includes a plurality of structures which induce turbulence and thereby delay separation of a boundary layer along a length of the body, to thereby reduce a drag coefficient of the body.
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FastSkinz, Inc.
Morgan & Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Patel Kiran B.
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