Adjustable Fairing Extension for Wind Shielding and Visibility
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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 and operating conditions.
Innovation Solution
A motor vehicle with a frame, fairing, and adjustable fairing extensions featuring planar surfaces, hinges, and adjustment pins, allowing for adjustable deflection angles to manage airflow and debris, including extendible surfaces that can be removably attached to enhance protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a fairing is added to shield the operator from high velocity winds and environmental elements, then protection and buffering are improved, but the open front area for visibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The fairing system is divided into a base fairing and an adjustable extension component. The extension can be independently positioned to provide shielding only in specific areas where protection is needed, rather than blocking the entire front area, thus maintaining visibility while providing targeted protection from winds and environmental elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The fairing extension is designed to be adjustable and repositionable along the handlebars, allowing the operator to dynamically modify the shielding configuration based on varying weather conditions and operational needs. This dynamic adjustment enables optimization between protection and visibility requirements.
2Ease of manufacture
If a fixed fairing configuration is used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to varying weather and operating conditions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The fairing extension incorporates an adjustable mechanism that allows repositioning along the handlebars to adapt to different operating conditions. This dynamic feature enables the same fairing structure to provide varying degrees of protection based on weather conditions, rider preference, and operational requirements, significantly enhancing versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The fairing system allows adjustment of the extension position and angle, changing the geometric parameters of the shielding structure. This enables the fairing to optimize airflow deflection and protection characteristics for different weather conditions and riding scenarios while maintaining a relatively simple base manufacturing process.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the fairing extension is made extendible to increase protection, then shielding effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fairing extension is designed as a modular component that can be independently attached and adjusted on the existing fairing structure. This segmentation allows the extension to be a simple, lightweight component rather than a complex integrated system, providing enhanced shielding while maintaining structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The extendible fairing incorporates a simple hinge mechanism with adjustment pins that allow the extension to be positioned at different angles and distances. This dynamic adjustment capability provides enhanced shielding effectiveness through a relatively simple mechanical design, avoiding the need for complex actuation systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The adjustable fairing extensions effectively deflect air, debris, and other elements away from the operator, enhancing vehicle operation and operator experience while maintaining visibility and flexibility based on environmental conditions.
Implementation Method 1
the fairing deflects air about the handlebars at a first deflection angle
Implementation Method 2
the extension of the extendible planar surface deflects air about the handlebars at a second deflection angle
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.