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Motor vehicle with dust collector

US10286882B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims

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Assignee

Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

Marcel Mathissen · Übach-Palenberg, DE
Rainer Vogt · Bad Reichenhall, DE
Volker Scheer · Roetgen, DE
Lothar Krueger · Much, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 16, 2017
Grant date	May 14, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 16, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60R2019/002
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

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.

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