Air flap device having a plurality of air flaps with air flap movement ending sequentially

Abstract

An air flap device for a motor vehicle, having an air flap member with a flow-through opening and having a plurality of air flaps, which protrude into the flow-through opening or pass through it and which are each mounted on the air flap member so that they can move between a blocking position as a working position and a feed-through position as another working position, wherein each air flap in its blocking position interferes with flow through the flow-through opening as intended to a greater extent than in the feed-through position, wherein the air flap device has, as one operating position, a closed position, in which each air flap of the plurality of air flaps is in the blocking position as the working position associated with the closed position, and has an open position as another operating position, in which each air flap of the plurality of air flaps is in the feed-through position as the working position associated with the open position, the air flap device having a drive device for supplying a driving force for the movement of the air flaps between the blocking position and the feed-through position and a coupling device for transfer of the driving force supplied by the drive device to the air flaps, the coupling device is coupled to the plurality of air flaps such that at least some of the air flaps, because of an adjustment operation of the air flap device into a target operating position, reach their target working positions associated with the target operating position at different points in time.