Technical Field
The present invention relates to a windshield glass peripheral structure.
Related Art
In vehicles such as automobiles, a windshield glass and a cowl louver positioned at a vehicle from side of the windshield glass are coupled together with a molding interposed therebetween. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (JP-A) No. 2015-51653 describes a coupling structure between a windshield glass and a cowl louver that is provided with a molding that includes a fixed portion fixed to an inner face of a lower edge portion of the windshield glass, and a fitting portion that receives an anchor rib that protrudes downward from a location near to an upper edge portion of the cowl louver.
Ordinarily, a molding provided between a windshield glass and a cowl louver is joined to an outer face of the windshield glass. In contrast thereto, in the invention described in JP-A No. 2015-51653, an interposed portion of the molding is interposed between the outer face of the windshield glass and an outer face of the cowl louver; and the outer face of the windshield glass and the outer face of the cowl louver, and a leading end of the interposed portion of the molding, are disposed so as to be flush with each other. In a case of an ordinary molding, when water from a vehicle width direction end portion of the windshield glass enters at the inside of the windshield glass, water droplets run along an inner face of the windshield glass and flow down toward the vehicle up-down direction lower side, falling as they are toward the cowl.
However, in case of the invention described in JP-A No. 2015-51653, the fixed portion of the molding is joined to the inner face of the windshield glass and the molding is curved protruding toward the vehicle front and vehicle bottom. Thus, some of the water droplets that have run along the inner face oldie windshield glass and flowed down toward the vehicle up-down direction, lower side at the vehicle width direction end portion of the windshield glass then run along an upper end portion of the fixed portion of the molding and head toward the vehicle width direction inside. It is therefore possible that the water droplets drip onto part of a wiper unit, such as a wiper link, provided further to the vehicle inside than the cowl louver. There is therefore room for improvement to suppress early deterioration of the wiper unit due to water exposure of the wiper link.
In order to address the problem above, conceivably, for example, a water stopping member such as a dam rubber might be provided to the upper end portion of the molding, to dam water droplets from running along the upper end portion of the molding and beading toward the vehicle width direction inside. However, in such a configuration, providing the water stopping member to the molding as a separate body increases the number of components, thereby increasing the assembly steps and component costs.
In consideration of the above, an object of the present invention is to obtain a windshield glass peripheral structure capable of suppressing water exposure of a wiper unit due to water droplets falling from a molding without adding any new components.