Chrysler Corporation

Alfredo N DiMichele

Mark E Gleason

Thomas C Odette

Joseph E Kubina

Richard F Biermacher

Jerry F Loughlin, Jr

Todd H Wludyka

Patrick M Harney

Craig S Montie

There is disclosed herein a fluid containment device secured to, or integrated within a vehicle cowl or louvered panel serving to divert water or windshield washer fluid 'run-up' away from the operator's line of vision. Such run-up of fluid tends to occur in the vicinity of the ends of a wiper blade at the end of its final or intermittent downward stroke. The fluid containment device is formed to include a ramped lead-in front surface and a vertically oriented trailing surface, creating a high pressure, low velocity space adjacent the rear surface thereof, causing a turbulent airflow to circle downwardly and spiral laterally. The result is to urge the fluid downward toward the base of the louvered panel, and laterally toward the outboard sides of the windshield.

Fluid containment device

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Warren, MI, United States of America

Alfredo N DiMichele