Adjustable Fairing Extension for Motorcycle Wind Deflection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicles, particularly those with open front areas, lack adequate shielding and buffering to protect operators from high velocity winds, precipitation, debris, and other environmental elements, with existing fairings often failing to provide sufficient protection or flexibility based on varying weather conditions.
Innovation Solution
A motor vehicle with a frame, fairing, and adjustable fairing extensions featuring planar surfaces, hinges, and adjustment pins, allowing for customizable deflection angles to redirect air, debris, and other elements away from the operator, with extendible surfaces providing additional protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a fairing is designed to deflect air, then operator protection from wind and debris is improved, but the deflection angle may be insufficient to provide adequate shielding in varying weather conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the fairing extension adjustable rather than fixed. The extendible planar surface can be positioned at different angles and extensions using hinges and adjustment pins, allowing the deflection angle to be dynamically changed based on weather conditions. This resolves the contradiction by enabling the fairing to adapt to varying wind and debris conditions while maintaining adequate protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The fairing is segmented into a base fairing and an adjustable extension component. The extension includes separate planar surfaces that can be independently positioned and adjusted. This segmentation allows different portions of the fairing to be optimized for different protection needs, resolving the contradiction between providing sufficient deflection and maintaining adaptability to various conditions.
2Reliability
If the fairing is made fixed to provide stable protection, then operator shielding is improved, but the ability to adjust to different operating conditions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The fairing extension uses hinges and adjustment pins to create a dynamically adjustable structure that can be securely positioned at different angles. This provides both stability when positioned and adaptability to change positions, resolving the contradiction between reliable stable protection and adjustability to different conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustment pin acts as an intermediary element that connects and secures the extendible planar surface to the base fairing at selected positions. This intermediary mechanism enables the fairing to transition between fixed stable positions while maintaining the capability to adjust, thus resolving the contradiction between reliability and adaptability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the fairing extension is made adjustable with multiple components, then adaptability to weather conditions is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fairing is divided into modular components (base fairing, extension, hinges, adjustment pins) that can be independently manufactured and assembled. This segmentation enables adaptability through combination while managing complexity by using standardized, replaceable parts rather than a single complex adjustable mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustable fairing uses simple hinge and pin mechanisms rather than complex motorized or automated systems. This mechanical approach provides the needed adaptability through manual adjustment while keeping the device complexity manageable through the use of basic, well-understood mechanical components.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances operator safety and comfort by dynamically adjusting to weather conditions, effectively deflecting environmental elements while maintaining visibility and vehicle operation.
Implementation Method 1
the extension of the extendible planar surface deflects air about the handlebars at a second deflection angle
Implementation Method 2
the extendible planar surface attaches to the at least one planar surface via the hinge and the at least one adjustment pin is inserted through the aperture on the extendible planar surface, such that the extendible planar surface is adjustable about said hinge along an adjustment plane
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a motor vehicle including a frame, a fairing, handlebars, and at least one fairing extension. The fairing and said handlebars are connected to the frame, such that the fairing deflects air about the handlebars at a first deflection angle. The fairing is removably attached to the at least one adjustable wind fairing extension, the fairing extension including at least one planar surface and, in some embodiments, at least one extendible planar surface, a hinge, an aperture, and at least one adjustment pin. The extendible planar surface is adjustable about said hinge along an adjustment plane up to the maximum extension allowed by the at least one adjustment pin. The fairing extension deflects air about the handlebars at a second deflection angle. The extension of the extendible planar surface deflects air about the handlebars at a third deflection angle.