A system and method of controlling components of a vehicle are disclosed. The method includes the steps of sensing a current position of a rear closure panel with a closure panel position sensor, sensing a speed of the vehicle with a speed sensor, and sensing a current environmental condition with an environmental precipitation sensor. The method also includes adjusting a degree of openness of at least one window as a result of the closure panel position sensor indicating that the rear closure panel is in an open position, the speed sensor indicating that a speed of the vehicle is greater than zero kilometers per hour (kph), and the current environmental condition that is indicated by the environmental precipitation sensor.

A truck or tractor semi-trailer combination interconnected via a fifth wheel, comprising a cabin and an air collection chamber, the air collection chamber provided between a rear end of the cabin and the semi-trailer and having a front wall substantially adjacent or identical to a cabin rear wall, and a rear wall distanced and substantially coplanar to the front wall, which air collection chamber is provided with an air accession structure and a heat exchanger, the air accession structure providing air access to the air collection chamber and towards the heat exchanger, said heat exchanger provided in the rear wall of the air collection chamber extending at least partly over a width of the truck and wherein said air accession structure comprises air accession side ports provided on the side walls of the air collection chamber designed to provide at least a passive air flow from the air accession side ports towards the heat exchanger.

An active air flap device for a vehicle may include: a housing part mounted in a bumper cover part; one or more flap parts rotatably mounted in the housing part, and exposed to the outside through a hole formed in the bumper cover part to form the same skin line as the bumper cover part; a link part connected to the flap part; a loader part mounted in the link part; and a driving part configured to rotate the loader part.

An electric vehicle comprises a vehicle chassis extending along a longitudinal axis and a rotatable vehicle drive axle disposed along a transverse axis and having opposed ends that are configured for attachment to a pair of opposed drive wheels. The electric vehicle also comprises a selectively movable electric propulsion motor comprising a rotatable motor shaft rotatable about a motor axis, the electric propulsion motor configured to be mounted within the vehicle chassis and operatively coupled to the rotatable vehicle drive axle and opposed drive wheels, the motor axis configured to be oriented in a substantially vertical direction.

The invention relates to a shut-off flap (26) for a motor vehicle shut-off device, notably for a device for shutting off an air inlet in the front face of a motor vehicle, comprising a flap body (28), the flap body (28) being at least partially made of a fibre reinforced composite material, notably one that uses continuous reinforcing fibres (42, 44). The invention also relates to a motor vehicle shut-off device comprising such a flap and to methods of manufacturing this flap and this shut-off device for a motor vehicle.

An assembly includes multiple structures and a first bracket. The multiple structures include at least a first structure, a second structure, and a third structure located between the first structure and the second structure. The first bracket is configured to fix the second structure to the first structure and support the third structure. The first structure, the second structure, and the third structure are arranged in a first direction. The first bracket includes a second structure supporting portion supporting the second structure and a third structure supporting portion supporting the third structure. The second structure supporting portion is located on a first side of the first bracket and the third structure supporting portion is located on a second side of the first bracket. The first side and the second side are opposite to each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

A vehicle active air flap system includes a flap configured to open or close an outdoor air inlet disposed in a grill of a vehicle, at least one sensor configured to detect various types of state information of the vehicle, and a controller configured to selectively adopt various sensing data values detected by the at least one sensor according to whether the vehicle starts and then compare at least one sensing data value of the adopted sensing data values with a preset vehicle driving condition data value to open or close the flap according to a compared result value.

a vehicle cooling air introduction structure includes: an outer plate member that covers a front side, relative to a vehicle body, of a radiator; a cover member that is provided adjacent to an upper side, relative to the vehicle body, of the outer plate member and covers a front upper side, relative to the vehicle body, of the radiator; and an opening member that is moved in a rearward direction, relative to the vehicle body, by wind pressure during travel to thereby open an open portion at a lower end portion of the cover member.

The shutter device has a blade and a frame member which supports the blade in a rotatable manner. The device has a shaft arranged along the frame member, an actuator device for rotating the shaft, and a link member which opens and closes the blade by transmitting a rotational force of the shaft to the blade. The device has a calibration structure having a calibration member formed on the shaft and a calibration surface formed on the frame member. The calibration structure calibrates a rotational position of the shaft by coming into contact with the calibration member onto the calibration surface. The device further has a discharge structure which discharges foreign matters existing between the calibration member of the shaft and the calibration surface of the frame member.

An air flap device for a motor vehicle, to a plurality of jointly adjustable air flaps and to an actuator for adjusting the plurality of air flaps between a closed position and an open position, the air flap device including a radiative detection device for detecting and assessing a position of the plurality of air flaps; the radiative detection device having a radiation source and a radiation receiver, the radiation source emitting an electromagnetic test radiation in the direction toward the radiation receiver, at least one air flap as a test air flap having a test section through which the test radiation is able to radiate, the test section being situated in the propagation path of the test radiation from the radiation source to the radiation receiver in such a way that only when the test air flap is in a predetermined reference operating position at least a portion of the test radiation radiates through the test section toward the radiation receiver and reaches the radiation receiver with an irradiation result within a predetermined irradiation result space.