Patent ID: 9481397
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: B62D

Claim Text:
1. Body of a motor vehicle having a front engine compartment, a passenger compartment and two front wheelhouses; the body comprising: a substantially vertical wall which separates a lower zone of said passenger compartment from said engine compartment; a structure for receiving and draining water; said structure protruding forward into said engine compartment from an upper end of said substantially vertical wall and comprising an upper crosspiece, which is adapted to be arranged below a windshield of the motor vehicle and is shaped so as to define a first channel, adapted to receive the water which slides down from said windshield towards said engine compartment and elongated in the transversal direction so as to divert the water sideways and outwards; said upper crosspiece comprising an intermediate portion and two opposite end portions; wherein said end portions define respective openings for draining water into respective drain passages, and said intermediate portion has at least one hole to allow some of the water to fall from said first channel; a reinforcing crosspiece arranged underneath said upper crosspiece;