Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

Audi Ag

Suspa Gmbh

Joachim Paul

Dominik Beierl

Haiko Neher

Mathias Froeschle

Sebastian Weber

Henrik Heidorn

Bernd Herrmann

Frank Neubrand

Tobias Posch

Thomas Huebener

Johannes Preis

Johannes Toepfl

Thomas Wolf

Dieter Jungert

Riccardo Bauer

Dieter Schiebel

Juergen Durm

Mathias Fröschle

Chris Paulus

Johannes Lang

Ulrich Hohl

Oliver Fischer

Bernd Kasperowski

Michael Roemer

Thomas Wiegand

Wolfgang Maier

Timo Lemke

Wolfgang Ramin

Markus Schwarz

Waldemar Ruff

Bernd Hollerbaum

Roi Nunez Millan

Jochen Wild

Matthias Glass

Alexander Gaida

Harald Bielesch

Sandra Hoerlezeder

Maarten Brink

Marc Feihl

Andreas Dinter

Sascha Marzia

Moritz Zeh

Steffen Ullrich

Bernd Jachowski

Wolfgang Schuster

Daniel Spielberg

Jochen Meder

Fred Woelfle

Jochem Meder

Michael RÖMER

An air guide device for a motor vehicle having an air guide element and a movement mechanism. The air guide element forming a rear side part of a body of the motor vehicle so as to be movable relative to the remaining body. The air guide element is movable between an inoperative position and at least one operating end position. The air guide element, in its inoperative position, is flush with the remaining body. The rear side part has a flow guide surface which faces an environment of the motor vehicle and along which air flows. The air guide element has a surface which is at least part of the flow guide surface. The air guide element, in its operating end position, is configured to extend the flow guide surface along a body longitudinal axis (X) of the body.

Air guide device for a motor vehicle

An air conduction device for a motor vehicle includes an air conduction element and a movement device. The air conduction element is movably configured relative to the remaining body as at least part of a tail side part of a body of the vehicle. The air conduction element can be brought into an inoperative position and at least one final operating position. The tail side part has a flow guiding area along which air flows which is designed to face an area surrounding the motor vehicle. The air conduction element has a surface which is at least part of the flow guiding area. The air conduction element is configured in its final operating position to lengthen the flow guiding area in the direction of a longitudinal body axis (X) of the body. The air conduction element can be brought into its positions with the help of the movement device.

Air conduction device for a motor vehicle

An air conduction device for a motor vehicle including an air conduction element and a movement device with adjustment kinematics. The air conduction element is movable relative to the remaining body as at least part of a tail side part of the vehicle body. The air conduction element moves between an inoperative position and at least one final operating position. The tail side part has a flow guiding area along which air flows which is designed to face an area surrounding the motor vehicle. The air conduction element has a surface which is at least part of the flow guiding area. The air conduction element is configured in its final operating position to lengthen the flow guiding area in the direction of a longitudinal body axis (X) of the body. The adjustment kinematics are configured in the form of multipoint joint kinematics.

A motor vehicle side spoiler arrangement with a spoiler blade which can be moved in a motorized manner between a retracted rest position and a laterally extended spoiler position. A spoiler shell is fixed on the vehicle and provided with a shell rear wall, a guide mechanism which guides the spoiler blade in the longitudinal direction, and an actuating motor. A sliding seal lip is provided between the spoiler blade and the shell rear wall, which sliding seal lip closes a front-side gap (S) between the spoiler blade and the shell rear wall in the spoiler position of the spoiler blade.

Motor vehicle side spoiler arrangement

A drive unit for an air deflector element of a motor vehicle includes a drive motor transmission unit formed by a drive motor connected with, as a single unit, at least one transmission, a control unit configured to control the drive unit, and a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the drive unit.

Drive unit and method for controlling a drive unit, in particular for an air deflector element of a motor vehicle

An air guide device for a motor vehicle body of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle body has a longitudinal axis, a transverse axis, and a vertical axis. The air guide device includes: an air guide element, which is received in the motor vehicle body so as to be movable with the aid of an adjusting device, and which is movable into at least a first position and a second position. In order to effect a reduced coefficient of air resistance and an increased downforce, the air guide element has a guide element, which is configured to be movable and which is received movably on a wing top surface of the air guide element.

Air guide device for a motor vehicle body of a motor vehicle

An air guide device for a vehicle has: a static carrier, which is installable via installation brackets on a body structure of the vehicle, which are connected at a first portion to the body structure and at a second portion to a carrier; an air guide displaceable relative to the static carrier between a retracted rest position and a deployed operating position; a kinematic link arrangement, which has multiple links via which the air guide is displaceable relative to the carrier, wherein the links of the kinematic link arrangement are mounted on first installation brackets; and an adjusting motor, which acts on the kinematic link arrangement for the purposes of displacing the air guide relative to the carrier. The adjusting motor is mounted on a second installation bracket. The carrier, which is made of plastic, is connected by a clip connection to the installation brackets, which comprise plastic or metal.

Air guide device for a vehicle

A drive arrangement for a motor vehicle functional part includes: a housing, in which a drive motor, a gear mechanism and an adjustor are provided at least partially; a drive shaft configured to transfer the adjustor via the gear mechanism from a closed position into an open position and vice versa; and a wrap spring arrangement comprising two wrap spring members, which act in opposite directions. The wrap spring arrangement is arranged on a gear mechanism output side, in a region of the adjustor.

Drive arrangement for a motor vehicle functional part

A worm drive includes a rotatably mounted worm shaft, and a device for compensating an unwanted axial backlash of the worm shaft. The device for compensating the unwanted axial backlash of the worm shaft includes two pressure bodies between which the worm shaft is clamped in the axial direction by a diaphragm spring device. The diaphragm spring is assigned to one of the pressure bodies.

Worm drive

A motor vehicle body includes an air-guiding unit having an air-guiding element configured to be positioned flush with the motor vehicle body and movably connected to the motor vehicle body and an adjustment unit including an actuation element arranged fixedly on a support element of the motor vehicle body and configured to aid movement of the air guiding element. The motor vehicle body further includes a receiving space configured to receive the air-guiding element, wherein the receiving space is arranged in a rear region of the motor vehicle body. The support element is designed in a form of a torsional profile for reinforcing a rear lid, forming the receiving space, of the rear region.

Motor vehicle body having an air-guiding unit

An actuating drive for an air deflector device on a vehicle includes a controllable electric motor having an output shaft; a step-down mechanism having a first worm drive and a second worm drive, the first worm drive being coupled by a first worm to the output shaft of the electric motor, the first worm drive having a worm wheel configured to be brought into operative connection with a worm of the second worm drive, the second worm drive having a worm wheel configured to drive the adjustment shaft for the air deflector device; and a mechanical actuating force transmitter configured to transmit an actuating force to the air deflector device.

Actuating drive for an air deflector device

A drive apparatus includes a housing, an electric motor arranged in the housing, and a worm gear mechanism arranged in the housing. The worm gear mechanism includes a worm gear arranged on a rotor shaft of the electric motor and a gearwheel in engagement with the worm gear and fixedly connected to an output shaft so as to rotate with the output shaft. The electric motor is axially mounted in the housing with one axial end via a stop element and with the opposite axial end via an axial clamping element. The axial clamping element has a spring element, a separate floating holding element, and a separate elastomer element. The holding element is arranged axially between the spring element and the elastomer element.

Drive apparatus

A motor vehicle () has a body () and a sill () arranged between the wheel houses () on a longitudinal side of the vehicle. The sill () has a sill element () that is adjustable in the lateral direction between a first end position and a second end position. At least one protruding air guiding element () is arranged on the sill element ().

Motor vehicle with an adjustable sill

A rear spoiler for a motor vehicle has a spoiler body () for deflecting a stream of air to provide an aerodynamic effect. The spoiler body () has a main spoiler () with a main surface () and an auxiliary spoiler () with an auxiliary surface (). A multi-jointed actuating kinematics () can move the main spoiler () and the auxiliary spoiler () between a storage position where the auxiliary surface () of the auxiliary spoiler () is at least partially below the main spoiler () and a use position where the auxiliary spoiler () is substantially in a common plane with the main surface ().

Spoiler for a motor vehicle

A rear region of a vehicle has an air-guiding device () with a mounting element () for the air-guiding device on the vehicle, and with at least one air-guiding element () that is shiftable between a retracted inoperative position and an extended operating position. A gap () is formed between the air-guiding element () and the mounting element () when the air guiding device () is in the extended operating position. However, the gap () can be closed via a closure device (). The closure device () has a multi-layered, flexible sheetlike structure () with at least one front outer, flexible layer () and a rear outer, flexible layer (). In the extended operating position, the front outer layer () can be stretched with the aid of a stiff clamping element () and the rear outer layer () can be stretched with the aid of a flexible clamping element ().

Air-guiding device for a vehicle

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