Patent ID: 8561741
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
1. A vehicle air guide duct structure comprising: left and right side-wall ducts provided on left and right sides of an equipment to be cooled and extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle body for guiding air in front of a vehicle as cooling air to the equipment to be cooled; elastically deformable left and right seal sections projecting outward from respective inner wall surfaces of the left and right side-wall ducts toward side-edge front surfaces of the equipment to be cooled, the seal sections extending up to the side-edge front surfaces while being separated by a predetermined distance from the side-edge front surfaces toward a front of the vehicle; a plurality of reinforcing ribs provided on a front wall surface or a rear wall surface of each of the left and right seal sections except a distal end part of each seal section, the reinforcing ribs having a substantially triangular shape and connecting the front wall surface or the rear wall surface of each of the seal sections to the inner wall surface of a corresponding one of the left and right side-wall ducts; wherein each of the side-wall ducts and a corresponding one of the seal sections are formed from a single-piece rubber material, wherein the reinforcing ribs provide each of the seal sections with a rigidity such that, when subjected to a traveling air pressure while the vehicle is traveling, the seal sections undergo elastic deformation and come into contact with the side-edge front surfaces, and when the vehicle is idling, the distal end parts of the seal sections remain separated from the side-edge front surfaces, and wherein the side-wall ducts have: