Fluid containment device

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1994-10-28

1996-09-10

Pedder, Dennis H.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Structural detail

296208, 296 91, B62D 2508

Patent

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055539122

ABSTRACT:
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.

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patent: 4772066 (1988-09-01), Leschke et al.
patent: 5094497 (1992-03-01), Hartung et al.
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