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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2023
Transtex Inc., Montréal, CA;
Mathieu Boivin, Montreal, CA;
Walid Deir, Lachine, CA;
George Bassily, Laval, CA;
Swaroop Mulenahalli Kantharaju, Montreal, CA;
Elizabeth Tome, St-Leonard, CA;
Sylvain Daoust, Vaudreuil-Dorion, CA;
Ali Fellah Jahromi, Saint-Laurent, CA;
Transtex Inc., Saint-Laurent, CA;
Abstract
A strut member to be secured to the floor structure includes a top skirt-contacting portion for the aerodynamic skirt panel to be secured thereto, a lower skirt-contacting portion for the aerodynamic skirt panel to be secured thereto distant from the top skirt-contact portion, and a strut portion connecting the top skirt-contact portion to the lower skirt-contacting portion. The strut member provides a clearance in which the skirt panel is free of contact with the strut member between the top skirt-contact portion and the lower skirt-contacting portion. The strut portion is configured to resiliently buckle between a buckled position upon the skirt panel undergoing a force exceeding a threshold value toward the strut member and an original position when no force is applied and when the skirt panel is undergoing a force that is less than the threshold value.