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Title:
INNER FENDER FOR VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2008247146
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an inner fender for a vehicle capable of reducing air resistance in a wheel house.

The inner fender 10 is installed in the vehicular wheel house and has a plurality of dimples 15 on its surface 11a. When the flow speed of air in the wheel house reaches a prescribed value due to an increase of the vehicle speed, a flow at a boundary layer in proximity to the surface 11a of the inner fender 10 is transitted from a stratified flow to a turbulent by the dimples 15, to cause the peeling position of the boundary layer to shift to further downstream so that the pressure of a low-pressure peeling area likely to be a cause of the air resistance may rise to result in the reduction of the air resistance.


Inventors:
TAKEUCHI ATSUSHI
Application Number:
JP2007089563A
Publication Date:
October 16, 2008
Filing Date:
March 29, 2007
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
International Classes:
B62D25/18
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoichiro Shimoda
Tamiya Hiroshi