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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2016
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Scott L. Frederick, Brighton, MI (US);
Paxton S. Williams, Milan, MI (US);
Vanessa Antar, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Daniel B. Gidcumb, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A front grille assembly for a vehicle includes a grille deflector that allows air to flow therethrough into an engine compartment of the vehicle. A grille frame supports the grille deflector at a front of the vehicle. An air flow director fin is located on the grille frame and rearward of the grille deflector. The air flow director fin modifies a flow direction of air entering the engine compartment from an unmodified flow direction without the air flow director fin to a modified flow direction toward a region of a transmission cooler of the vehicle.