Patent ID: 8882182

Claim:
A cowl structure for an automobile, the cowl structure comprising: a guide plate that is disposed in a cowl portion of a vehicle and guides at least liquid that ingresses into the cowl portion through a cowl louver toward a vehicle forward side; and a plurality of screen plates that are provided standing inside the cowl portion, that impede movement in a vehicle width direction of air that enters from a power plant compartment, and that are joined by the guide plate, at least one of an upper side portion or a lower side portion of each screen plate, relative to a boundary with the guide plate, being an inclined portion that is inclined from a vertical direction, wherein the inclined portion includes: an upper inclined portion at an upper side relative to a region of the boundary; and a lower inclined portion at a lower side relative to the region of the boundary, the lower inclined portion being inclined in a different direction from the upper inclined portion, and a low-stiffness portion, at which the screen plate is locally low in stiffness, is provided between the upper inclined portion and the lower inclined portion.