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Title:
VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2016168951
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle capable of inhibiting separation of an air flow from the outer surface of a vehicle body at an unintentional position without spoiling the appearance of the vehicle body.SOLUTION: In a vehicle, a vehicle body 4 kept in an electrical insulation state to a road surface is positively charged with static electricity that is caused by external factors including traveling. On an inner surface of the vehicle body at a specific part where a positively-charged air flow flowing around the vehicle body 4 during traveling begins varying from a flow along the surface of the charged vehicle body 4 to a flow separated from the surface, the vehicle comprises an electric charge control device 5, 6 that, by irradiating a negative ion, reduces a positive charge of the specific part or charges the specific part with a negative charge.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Inventors:
TANAHASHI TOSHIO
KANEHARA YOJI
YAMADA HIROSHI
Application Number:
JP2015050651A
Publication Date:
September 23, 2016
Filing Date:
March 13, 2015
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
International Classes:
B62D37/02
Foreign References:
DE102008001103A12009-10-15
WO2015064195A12015-05-07
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Watanabe strong