US 12,403,959 B2
Vehicle cowl structure
Tomoya Ohguma, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/116,101.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-044776 (JP), filed on Mar. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294773 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 25/08 (2006.01); B60R 13/07 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 25/081 (2013.01) [B60R 13/07 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle cowl structure for a vehicle comprising:
a cowl body extending in a vehicle width direction on a vehicle front side of a lower end of a windshield glass of the vehicle and having a recessed shape with an upper opening facing a vehicle upper side when viewed in a longitudinal direction of the cowl body;
a cowl panel extending in the vehicle width direction on the vehicle upper side of the cowl body, closing the upper opening of the cowl body, and having an outside air inlet configured to allow outside air to be introduced into the cowl body;
an air outlet disposed in the cowl body and configured to allow air inside the cowl body to be discharged toward a vehicle interior of the vehicle; and
a chamber having a hollow interior serving as a chamber interior, provided in a bottom part of the cowl body, and disposed between the outside air inlet and the air outlet in the vehicle width direction,
wherein the chamber comprises
a blocking wall constituting a wall of the chamber on a side of the outside air inlet, extending upward from a bottom wall of the cowl body, and having, at a lower end of the blocking wall, a water inlet configured to allow liquid inside the cowl body to be drawn into the chamber interior,
a chamber-side drainage outlet configured to allow the liquid drawn into the chamber interior to be drained out, and
a communication port disposed on a side of the air outlet with respect to the blocking wall and configured to allow the chamber interior to communicate with an inside of the cowl body.