Vehicle front section structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9862424-B2
Application number	US-201615201948-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 5, 2016
Priority date	Sep 2, 2015
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle front section structure includes a hood; a front windshield glass; a cowl louver; a front pillar; a front side door; a wiper arm including an arm base portion; and a flow regulating member that is provided at the cowl louver, that is disposed in a wiper storage section at a vehicle width direction outer side and at a vehicle front side of the arm base portion in a state wherein arm base portion is stored in wiper storage section, and includes a vertical wall extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and an inclined wall disposed at the vehicle front side of arm base portion, in the state wherein the arm base portion is stored in wiper storage section, and extending out from a rear end portion of the vertical wall toward the vehicle width direction outer side and toward the vehicle front side along the arm base portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle front section structure comprising:
a hood provided at a vehicle front section;
a front windshield glass disposed at a vehicle rear side of the hood;
a cowl louver that extends in a vehicle width direction along a lower end portion of the front windshield glass, that extends out from the lower end portion toward as vehicle front side, and that is disposed at a vehicle lower side of the hood;
a front pillar that extends out from an end portion at a vehicle width direction outer side of the cowl louver toward a vehicle upper side and toward the vehicle rear side along an end portion in the vehicle width direction outer side of the front windshield glass;
a front side door that comprises a side mirrors disposed at the vehicle width direction outer side of, and at the vehicle rear side of, a lower end portion of the front pillar, and that is provided at a vehicle side portion;
a wiper arm comprising an arm base portion having one end portion attached to a rotation shaft provided at a position at the vehicle width direction outer side of the cowl louver, and extending out from the rotation shaft toward a vehicle width direction inner side and toward the vehicle upper side in a state in which the arm base portion is stored in a wiper storage section formed between the hood and the cowl louver; and
a flow regulating member that is provided at the cowl louver, that is disposed in the wiper storage section at the vehicle width direction outer side and at the vehicle front side of the arm base portion in the state in which the arm base portion is stored in the wiper storage section, and that comprises a vertical wall extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and an inclined wall disposed at the vehicle front side of the arm base portion, in the state in which the arm base portion is stored in the wiper storage section, and extending out from a rear end portion of the vertical wall toward the vehicle width direction outer side and toward the vehicle front side along the at base portion.

2. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , further comprising:
a pillar side flow regulating member that is provided along a lower portion of the front pillar, and that guides, toward the vehicle upper side, wind flowing in the wiper storage section toward the vehicle width direction outer side,
wherein an end portion at the vehicle width direction outer side of the inclined wall is close to, or touches, the pillar side flow regulating member.

3. The vehicle front section structure of claim 2 , wherein
the pillar side flow regulating member is formed in a plate shape extending in the vehicle front-rear direction along the lower portion of the front pillar, and is disposed with a plate thickness direction of the pillar side flow regulating member in the vehicle width direction.

4. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , wherein
the rear end portion at the vehicle rear side of the vertical wall is close to the arm base portion in the state in which the arm base portion is stored in the wiper storage section.

5. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , wherein:
the cowl louver comprises:
a facing wall that extends out from the lower end portion of the front windshield glass toward the vehicle front side, and that faces a rear portion at the vehicle rear side of the hood in a vehicle up-down direction; and
a supporting wall that extends out from a front end portion at the vehicle front side of the facing wall toward the vehicle upper side, and that supports the hood; and

a front end portion at the vehicle front side of the vertical wall is close to, or touches, the supporting wall.

6. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , wherein
the cowl louver is disposed so as to cover between the hood and the lower end portion of the front windshield glass.

7. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , wherein
the vertical wall is formed in a plate shape extending in the vehicle front-rear direction, and is disposed with a plate thickness direction of the vertical wall in the vehicle width direction.

8. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , wherein
the inclined wall is formed in a plate shape, and is disposed with a plate thickness direction of the inclined wall in the vehicle front-rear direction.

9. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , wherein
the inclined wall is inclined with respect to the vehicle width direction so as to be positioned more toward the vehicle front side on progression from the rear end portion of the vertical wall toward the vehicle width direction outer side.

10. The vehicle front section structure of claim 1 , wherein
the wiper arm comprises an extension that extends out from another end portion of the arm base portion, is bent with respect to the arm base portion, and has a leading end portion to which a wiper blade is rotatably attached.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamamoto Yohei

Classifications

• B60S1/0402

  completely or partially concealed in a cavity · CPC title

• B62D35/005

  Front spoilers (B62D35/001 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B62D25/12 Primary

  Parts or details thereof (locks E05B, {E05B83/16; devices for holding open E05C17/00, e.g. while carrying oversize objects E05C17/042}; hinges E05D; counterbalancing means E05F; {checks, stops, buffers E05F5/00; } springs, {e.g. pneumatic springs} F16F) · CPC title

• B62D25/04

  Door pillars {; windshield pillars} · CPC title

• B62D25/081 Primary

  Cowls (ventilating openings situated directly in front of the vehicle front window B60H1/28) · CPC title