Patent ID: 8567851
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle cowl cover comprising: a windshield support portion including a first windshield supporting wall and a second windshield supporting wall coupled to the first windshield supporting wall to define a windshield receiving cavity that is configured to receive a bottom edge of a windshield, the windshield receiving cavity extending in a lateral direction along the bottom edge of the windshield; and a channel portion extending from the second windshield supporting wall and defining a water receiving channel that is configured to receive water that flows over a top edge of the second windshield supporting wall from the windshield receiving cavity, with the channel portion being angled relative to an inner surface of the windshield to direct water laterally along the channel portion to at least one side edge of the vehicle cowl cover, the channel portion having a channel base that extends from the second windshield supporting wall and a channel wall that extends from the channel base, a distance between the channel base and the top edge of the second windshield supporting wall being less than a distance between the bottom edge of the windshield and the top edge of the second windshield supporting wall.