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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2017
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takumi Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Ryuya Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.