MOTOR VEHICLE WITH WATER CHAMBER

• US 20130300154A1
• Filed: 05/06/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: SCHAEFER, Thilo
• Granted Patent: US 8,777,298 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/192
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/081 Cowls ventilating openings situated directly in front of the vehicle front window B60H1/28

Abstract

A motor vehicle having a windshield and a water chamber extending at the base of the windshield and having a joint. The water chamber is surrounded on at least a portion of its length on the underside by a channel that is at least superficially impermeable to water.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle comprising:

a windshield; and

a water chamber extending at the base of the windshield and having a joint, wherein the water chamber is surrounded on at least a portion of its length on the underside by a channel that is at least substantially impermeable to water.

2. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the channel is formed from a sheet of insulating material.

3. The motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the channel adjoins a layer of insulating material, which that is mounted on an end wall extending between the passenger compartment and the engine compartment.

4. The motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the channel adjoins a layer of insulating material mounted on an engine hood.

5. The motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the sheet of insulating material carries a watertight foil on a side facing the water chamber.

6. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the channel comprises a layer of non-woven material or foam.

7. The motor vehicle according to claim 6, wherein the layer of non-woven material or foam has a thermoplastic material.

8. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the channel has an elongated zone in which it is locally compacted.

9. The motor vehicle according to claim 8, wherein a fold is formed along the elongated zone in the channel.

10. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a projection is formed on a rim of the channel and a fold of the channel originates from the projection.

11. The motor vehicle according to claim 10, wherein the channel has an elongated structure running downwards to the fold.

12. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the channel is fixed on the water chamber by an insert piece that penetrates a hole of the channel.

13. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the water chamber has a projecting lug, and wherein the channel is fixed on the lug by an insert piece penetrating holes of the channel and of the lug.

14. The motor vehicle according to claim 13, wherein the water chamber comprises two parts that respectively have a lug and are fixed to one another by the insert piece.

15. The motor vehicle according to claim 13, wherein the channel comprises several regions delimited from one another by folds and that two of these regions have holes lying one over another and penetrated by the insert piece.