Patent ID: 8657350
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: B60K,B60R

Abstract:
1. An impact protection device for a motor-vehicle member mounted protrudingly beneath the body thereof, comprising: a fairing element rigidly connected to at least one structural body element of the motor vehicle located between a rear extremity of the motor vehicle from which an obstacle may appear during a reversing maneuver of the motor vehicle and the motor-vehicle member, which is positioned rearward of a rear axle of the motor vehicle along a longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle, to protect the member from impacts during the reversing maneuver; the fairing element comprising a lower support surface extending beneath the body substantially between the extremity of the motor vehicle and the motor-vehicle member along a negative incline, such that a low point of the lower support surface is lower than a low point of the motor-vehicle member along a vertical axis of the motor vehicle, the low point being a forward-most part of the fairing element along the longitudinal axis and being positioned to the rear of a rear-most point of the motor-vehicle member along the longitudinal axis.