Fiat Auto S.p.a.

Politecnico Di Torino Dipartimento Di Energetica

Nevio Di Giusto

Felice Cornacchia

Alberto Morelli

Claudio Mottino

The device includes fan devices associated with each wheel of the vehicle for creating respective auxiliary flows. Conveying devices, associated with the wheel housing, direct the auxiliary flows to a distributor provided with an outlet opening, so that the air flows from the distributors sweep along the bottom of the motor vehicle and exit in the area of the truncated tail portion of the vehicle body in order to create, at least partially, a so-called tailstream produced by a stationary ring vortex.

Device for reducing the form drag of vehicles

An armrest comprising a supporting portion bounded above by a surface supporting the forearm of a user, and a terminal portion constructed in such a way as to house a first and a second switch panel located on opposite sides of the said terminal portion for the control of at least one corresponding service in the vehicle; the terminal portion is hinged onto the supporting portion to be rotated with respect to the supporting portion between a first working position in which the terminal portion extends longitudinally beyond the said supporting portion and in which the first switch panel is located on the same side as the supporting surface, and a second working position in which the terminal portion overlaps the supporting portion and the first and the second switch panels are located in contact with the supporting surface and in a position facing away from the said part of the supporting surface respectively.

Armrest for a vehicle

A steering wheel and deflection unit for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle, is described, of the type in which a steering wheel is connected in an angularly rigid manner to a steering shaft and a control lever for a direction signalling device is supported radially in the vicinity of this steering wheel; the rest position of the control lever with respect to the steering wheel can be adjusted into a plurality of different angular positions.

Steering wheel and deflection unit for a vehicle, in particular for a

The lock is formed from a fork which engages a striker pin and is itself engaged at one end by a catch; its main characteristic is that between the fork and catch there is interposed a rotatable insert which pivots at one end against the catch and is arranged to cooperate at its other end with the hook-shaped end of the fork, the insert being dragged rigidly with the catch by a spring connected to the insert eccentric to the position in which this latter pivots against the catch.

Lock requiring reduced opening force

A high-performance motor car includes a body which surrounds the rear wheels and has a tapered front part from which the front steerable wheels project. The front wheels are inserted in respective aerodynamic fairings which can be steered with the wheels. A vertical fin is pivoted to the rear of each fairing.

High-performance motor car

The invention relates to a vehicle door equipped with an integrated control device that can be mounted and tested off the assembly line; the door presents a slot for an outer handle, an inner supporting plate and a lateral clearance hole machined close to the clearance slot; the aforesaid integrated device comprises an L-shaped bracket supporting, on one wing, the outer handle and, on the other, a fork of a lock housed inside the bracket and connected to the outer handle and an inner handle fitted with its own supporting bracket and connected to the lock by means of a flexible cable; during use, the L-shaped bracket is fixed to the door with the fork facing the lateral slot and the outer handle housed inside the clearance slot and the bracket of the inner handle fixed to the inner plate of the door.

Integrated control device for a vehicle door and door fitted with this

A catch device is described of the type in which a fork element is thrust by a striker pin during closure of the door of a vehicle to rotate to come into snap engagement with a catch element operable to lock it in a closure position; its principal characteristic lies in the fact that it is provided with a supplementary spring pivotally attached eccentrically at one end to the fork element and at the other end to an attachment point fixed with respect to this latter, in such a way that the initial rotation of the fork element causes an eccentric elastic reaction of the spring which forces the fork element to complete its rotation with a reduced door-closing movement so as to reduce the door closure force.

Catch device with automatic clearance compensation, in particular for

A front bumper for motor vehicles comprises a hollow body having at least one frontal inlet aperture acting as an air intake, and two rear end apertures defined by nozzles arranged to direct respective air flows towards the brakes for the front wheels of the vehicle. The cavity within the body also communicates with a rear tubular appendage acting as a duct for conveying an air flow towards the radiator of the vehicle engine.

Front bumper for motor vehicles

A sliding pane for a motor vehicle window has the corners of its edges intended to face outwardly of the vehicle chamfered to define outer tapered portions which are housed in respective guide channels of the window. This enables the outer surface of the pane contiguous with the chamfers to be coplanar with the outer surface of those parts of the vehicle body defining the window opening, so as to reduce the turbulence arising from discontinuities in the outer surface of the vehicle.

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