Patent ID: 7942469

Claim:
An aerodynamic skirt adapted to be substantially longitudinally mounted to a trailer, the aerodynamic skirt comprising: a skirt panel made of a single sheet of material including a front portion and a rear portion, the front portion being adapted to be laterally proximally mounted toward a forward portion of the trailer and the rear portion being adapted to be laterally distally mounted in respect to the forward portion toward a rear portion of the trailer in an aerodynamic configuration, the skirt panel being adapted to move away from the aerodynamic configuration when contacting a foreign object and to recover the aerodynamic configuration thereafter, the skirt panel being resiliently secured to the trailer with a plurality of resilient struts, the resilient struts being adapted to sustain an elastic deformation allowing the resilient struts to bend when a stress is applied to the resilient strut when the skirt panel moves away from the aerodynamic configuration and to self-recover the aerodynamic configuration when the stress is removed, wherein the skirt panel includes a curved portion between the front portion and the rear portion when the skirt panel is secured to the trailer in the aerodynamic configuration.