Subaru Corporation

Ryuya Kobayashi

Yuji Fujiu

Takumi Hasegawa

Yusuke Oki

A brake dust cover is installed in a brake system including a rotor disposed on an inner diameter side of a rim of a wheel and a caliper interposing and holding the rotor with brake pads and includes a main body, an extension, and an opening. The main body is disposed adjacent to the rotor on an inside of the rotor in a vehicle width direction, that is disposed so as to overlap at least a part of the rotor when viewed from an axle direction, and that is disposed such that an outer circumferential edge portion thereof is separated from an inner circumferential surface of the rim. The extension extends from a part of the outer circumferential edge portion of the main body to an outer diameter side. The opening is formed in the main body, and air in a wheelhouse is introduced toward the rotor through the opening.

Brake dust cover

A vehicle front structure includes a front window glass, a washer nozzle, a cowl, and plate members. The front window glass includes angle-of-view areas at its upper portions. The angle-of-view areas cover angles of view of left and right imagers disposed on an interior of a vehicle. The washer nozzle ejects a washer fluid to an outer surface of the front window glass. The cowl is recessed and extends in a vehicle width direction between the front window glass and a front hood. The plate members stand erect in the cowl and extend in a vehicle front-rear direction. The plate members are disposed at least one at each outer side, in the vehicle width direction, of a widthwise center of the vehicle. The plate members extend toward an area interposed between outer edges of the angle-of-view areas in the vehicle width direction in a plan view of the vehicle.

Vehicle front structure

A rectifying device is provided in a vehicle. The vehicle includes a wheel, a housing, and a lower arm. The wheel includes a tire and a rim. The housing is provided with a hub bearing that rotatably supports the wheel. The lower arm is swingably coupled to a vehicle-body lower portion and a lower portion of the housing and extends substantially along a vehicle width direction. The rectifying device includes an air-injection member. The air-injection member is provided in front of the wheel, and configured to inject air and form an airflow that flows in an inclined manner with respect to a vehicle front-rear direction in a region at a side of the wheel near the lower arm so that a downstream side of the airflow is at an inner side in the vehicle width direction with respect to an upstream side of the airflow.

Rectifying device

A vehicle front structure includes a cowl and one or more washer nozzles. The cowl is disposed between a front window glass and a front hood, which are disposed at a vehicle front. The cowl includes a recess extending in a vehicle width direction. The one or more washer nozzles are disposed at the cowl and configured to eject a washer fluid to the front window glass. The cowl includes plate members that stand erect in the recess and extend in a vehicle front-rear direction. The plate members are disposed on both vehicle-widthwise outer sides of an area in which the one or more washer nozzles are disposed.

A rectifying device is provided in a vehicle. The vehicle includes a wheel, a housing, and a lower arm. The wheel includes a tire and a rim. The housing is provided with a hub bearing that rotatably supports the wheel. The lower arm is swingably coupled to a vehicle-body lower portion and a lower portion of the housing and extends substantially along a vehicle width direction. The rectifying device includes an inward deflector. The inward deflector is provided at the lower arm and configured to deflect an airflow flowing in from a vehicle front side so that a speed component inward in the vehicle width direction of the airflow increases.

A vehicle airflow control device includes: a wheel shutter that is provided to a vehicle wheel, and is movable by a driving mechanism between an open position at which an opening between spokes of the vehicle wheel is brought into an open state and a closed position at which the opening is brought into a closed state; a shutter device that is provided to an introduction path of an air into an engine compartment, and is switchable between an open state in which an air is permitted to be introduced and a closed state in which an introduction of an air is blocked; and a control mechanism that actuates the driving mechanism to move the wheel shutter to either one of the open position and the closed position in accordance with the open and closed states of the shutter device.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryuya Kobayashi