Front structure of vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsMakoto Morimoto, Etsuji Saiki
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Abstract
The front structure of a vehicle includes a drain, provided below a cowl grille, that forms a closed cross-section in cooperation with the cowl grille, in which the drain has flow path portions that extend in the vehicle width direction and serve as paths through which water flows, the flow path portion has air speed reduction portions that reduce the flow speed of air flowing through the flow path portion in the region ranging from the position that overlaps with an outside air introduction hole of the cowl grille in the vehicle width direction to an air inlet of a dash panel.
Claims10
A front structure of a vehicle, comprising:
- a dash panel that extends in a vehicle width direction and performs partitioning into an engine compartment and a vehicle interior in a vehicle front-rear direction;
- an air inlet provided on one end side in the vehicle width direction of the dash panel;
- a cowl grille that has an outside air introduction hole at a position away from the air inlet toward another end side in the vehicle width direction;
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- a drain provided below the cowl grille, the drain forming a closed cross-section in cooperation with the cowl grille,
- wherein the drain has a flow path portion that extends in the vehicle width direction and serves as a path through which water flows, and
- the flow path portion has an air speed reduction portion that reduces a flow speed of air flowing through the flow path portion in a region ranging from a position that overlaps with the outside air introduction hole in the vehicle width direction to the air inlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.