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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Marcel Mathissen, Würselen, DE;
Rainer Vogt, Aachen, DE;
Volker Scheer, Roetgen, DE;
Lothar Krueger, Much, DE;
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60S 3/04 (2006.01); B01D 45/12 (2006.01); B01D 46/00 (2006.01); B03C 3/00 (2006.01); B60R 19/00 (2006.01); B03C 3/41 (2006.01); B03C 3/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60S 3/04 (2013.01); B01D 45/12 (2013.01); B01D 46/0002 (2013.01); B03C 3/00 (2013.01); B03C 3/41 (2013.01); B03C 3/45 (2013.01); B60R 19/00 (2013.01); B03C 2201/30 (2013.01); B60R 2019/002 (2013.01);
Abstract
A motor vehicle includes at least one air-conducting structure. That at least one air conducting structure is arranged downstream of a vehicle wheel in the direction of travel, for conducting at least some of the air in a wake of the vehicle wheel to a dust collector. A control unit is provided for automatic adjustment, in a manner depending on the speed of travel of the vehicle and/or of the spacing between a lower edge of the air-conducting structure and a roadway surface being driven over by the vehicle.