18482081. VEHICLE HAVING ANTI-TIP DEVICE (FCA US LLC)
VEHICLE HAVING ANTI-TIP DEVICE
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Vikas Sanghavi of Farmington Hills MI US
Meyyappan Valliappan of Troy MI US
Karthik Chitoor of South Lyon MI US
VEHICLE HAVING ANTI-TIP DEVICE
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18482081 titled 'VEHICLE HAVING ANTI-TIP DEVICE
Original Abstract Submitted
A vehicle including a vehicle frame, a wheel attached to the vehicle frame, and an anti-tip device attached to the vehicle frame. The anti-tip device includes a deflector assembly having a deflector section that extends angularly outward from the vehicle frame and a tail section unitary with deflector section that extends along and in parallel with a length of the vehicle frame, and the anti-tip device is configured, in the event of an offset frontal impact to the vehicle that forces the wheel in a direction toward the vehicle frame, to be struck by the wheel and deflect the wheel in a direction away from the vehicle frame to prevent the wheel from travelling beneath the vehicle frame.