Multimatic Inc.

Joel David Causley

Rudolf Gruber

Richard Anthony Czapka

A deployable vehicle rear wing conforms closely to the styled surface of the vehicle body in a retracted, or stowed, position while adaptively changing its cross section in a deployed position so as to provide a highly efficient airfoil section, with an integrated Gurney flap. Additionally, the adaptive cross section changes and Gurney flap deployment is provided via a linkage that utilizes a drive mechanism of a main deployment system.

Vehicle rear wing with adaptive section and extendable flap

A spoiler mechanism () for a vehicle () includes a spoiler () that has a stowed position and first and second deployed positions. An actuator () is configured to move the spoiler () though the stowed and first and second deployed positions in response to a command. A multi-link assembly () is interconnected by pivot points. The multi-link assembly () is operatively connected to the spoiler (). In the first deployed position at least three pivot points are aligned with one another in a plane and provide a first geometrically locked position. In the second deployed position a second geometrically locked position is provided in which a link of the multi-link assembly () abuts another structure.

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Markham, Canada

Joel David Causley