Chrysler Corporation

Daimlerchrysler Corporation

Thomas C Odette

John D Bucci

Robert N Hubbach

K Neil Walling

Ernest J Barry

Donald A Renkert

David C McKinnon

Robert E Boniface

Mark E Gleason

Joseph E Kubina

Richard F Biermacher

Todd H Wludyka

Patrick M Harney

Jerry F Loughlin, Jr

Craig S Montie

Alfredo N DiMichele

Automobile body

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

Automobile front end unit

Front face for a vehicle wheel

Automobile

Growing community of inventors

Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States of America

Thomas C Odette