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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
Mazda Motor Corporation, Aki-gun, Hiroshima, JP;
Starlite Co., Ltd., Osaka-shi, JP;
Yuhki Takanaga, Aki-gun, JP;
Kazuma Kondou, Aki-gun, JP;
Manabu Yamaoka, Aki-gun, JP;
Yoshimitsu Hayamizu, Hiroshima, JP;
Naoya Takashima, Hiroshima, JP;
MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Aki-gun, JP;
STARLITE CO., LTD., Osaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a vehicle shutter capable of detecting a flap to which power transmission is cut off by providing turn restriction units each having a simple structure in flaps. The vehicle shutter is provided with: a plurality of flapscapable of opening and closing an outside air introduction pathfor introducing outside air into an engine compartment and arranged in parallel to each other so as to cross the outside air introduction path; a linkage operation section linking the flapswith each other to perform an opening/closing operation of the flaps; a drive section driving the flapsto be open and closed through the linkage operation section; an abnormality detection section detecting an abnormality of the flapson the basis of an operating state of the drive section; and an abnormality notification section notifying the abnormality to a user on the basis of output from the abnormality detection section. Opening failure detecting restriction unitsand closing failure detecting restriction unitsare formed on adjacent flapsas turn restriction units which restrict, when power transmission to one of the adjacent flapsfrom the drive section is cut off, the other flapfrom turning.