Patent ID: 7942467

Claim:
A resilient strut adapted to secure an aerodynamic skirt to a trailer, the aerodynamic skirt being adapted to be substantially longitudinally mounted to the trailer, the aerodynamic skirt comprising: a skirt panel 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 with 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 resilient strut comprising: an intermediate portion; a trailer connecting portion extending at a first end thereof; and a skirt connecting portion extending at a second end thereof, the intermediate portion being adapted to sustain an elastic deformation allowing the intermediate portion to bend when a load is applied to the resilient strut when the skirt panel moves away from the aerodynamic configuration and to self-recover the original shape when the load is removed.