Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
015250340 | Arm-to-actuating shaft detail | 26 |
20090025173 | ROTATION CONTROL MECHANISM ESPECIALLY FOR A WINDOW WIPING DEVICE PERTAINING TO A MOTOR VEHICLE - A rotation control mechanism including a primary shaft driven in an alternating axially rotating manner, a drive carrier fixed to the primary shaft, a secondary shaft mounted in an axially rotatable manner in relation to the drive carrier, a fixed cam provided with a specific profiled element, and a control element which is fixed to the secondary shaft and cooperates in a sliding manner with the cam profiled element during the displacement of the drive carrier in relation to the fixed cam, where the sliding of the control element along the cam profiled element control the axial pivoting of the secondary shaft. | 01-29-2009 |
20090113654 | WIPER APPARATUS - A location space in an engine compartment is made smaller. A DR-side wiper motor and an AS-side wiper motor are arranged within a projection area of a windshield into a cabin of a vehicle in comparison with a DR-side pivot holder and an AS-side pivot holder. Therefore, a location space of each wiper apparatus inside an engine compartment can be made smaller, and can further improve a degree of freedom of design on a vehicle side. | 05-07-2009 |
20090126141 | VEHICLE WINDSHIELD WIPER SYSTEM - In a vehicle windshield wiper system, a support base includes a connecting rod ( | 05-21-2009 |
20100071147 | WATER BLOCKER AND ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR WIPER SYSTEM - A wiper system for a vehicle includes a frame supported by the vehicle and a wiper motor supported by the frame. The wiper system further includes a wiper arm coupled to the wiper motor and configured to be driven by the wiper motor to move in a reciprocating pattern. A water blocking member is wrapped around a portion of the frame to prevent water running along the frame from reaching the wiper motor. The blocking member is flexible and has separate free ends to enable assembly with the frame. A method of assembling the wiper system includes pressing the water blocker onto the frame at a location away from spaced apart ends of the frame. | 03-25-2010 |
20100162512 | Wiper apparatus - A swing lever is fixed to a pivot shaft to pivot the pivot shaft about a pivot axis thereof. A wiper arm is directly connected to a distal end portion of the pivot shaft and is pivoted together with the pivot shaft about the pivot axis of the pivot shaft when the pivot shaft is driven by the swing lever. The wiper arm is pivotable about a pivot axis thereof, which is generally perpendicular to or is tilted relative to the pivot axis of the pivot shaft, toward or away from a wiping surface. A coil spring is directly or indirectly connected between the wiper arm and the swing lever to exert an urging force to urge the wiper arm toward the wiping surface in a wiping operational position of the wiper arm for wiping the wiping surface. | 07-01-2010 |
20100293737 | WIPER BLADE WITH CONNECTOR AND METHOD FOR MAKING SUCH BLADE - The invention relates to a wiper blade ( | 11-25-2010 |
20110067198 | BALL AND SOCKET JOINT UTILIZING A SINGLE BALL, FOR DRIVING MORE THAN ONE DRIVEN MEMBER - An articulating ball joint for connecting a pair of driven members to a driving member such as a crank pin. In one embodiment, a single ball is held in a first, or inner, socket defined by a coupling member having a convex outer surface, and the first socket is held within a second, outer, socket defined in a second coupling member also having a convex outer surface, which is, in turn, engaged by a retainer. | 03-24-2011 |
20110072608 | WINDSHIELD WIPER DRIVE AND MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING A WINDSHIELD WIPER DRIVE - The invention relates to a windshield wiper drive ( | 03-31-2011 |
20110078869 | WIPER ARM FOR A WINDOW WIPER SYSTEM, WINDOW WIPER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A WINDOW WIPER SYSTEM - The invention relates to a wiper arm ( | 04-07-2011 |
20110083296 | Collapsible pivot body for a windshield wiper system - A collapsible pivot body having a housing that includes a channel defined therein and a mounting bracket that is adapted to attach the pivot body to a portion of a vehicle. The collapsible pivot body further includes a sleeve operatively disposed within the channel. The sleeve includes an internal passage that is adapted to receive a pivot shaft assembly of a wiper system. The collapsible pivot body further includes a plurality of bridges that connect the sleeve to the housing. The bridges are adapted to fail in response to a predetermined load acting on a pivot shaft assembly and cause the sleeve to collapse within the housing, thereby displacing the pivot shaft assembly and a portion of a wiper arm below the impact line of a vehicle. | 04-14-2011 |
20110094050 | VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH AT LEAST TWO WINDSCREEN WIPER DEVICES - A vehicle provided with at least two windscreen wiper devices each comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen of the vehicle to be wiped, each wiper blade including opposing longitudinal grooves on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves spaced-apart longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed, wherein neighboring ends of longitudinal strips are interconnected by a respective connecting piece, which windscreen wiper devices each comprise a connecting device for a respective oscillating arm, with the interposition of a joint part, with the special feature that each joint part and its corresponding oscillating arm comprise mutually cooperating protrusion/recess means resulting in an asymmetric form of joint part and of oscillating arm with the respect to their respective middle longitudinal planes, seen in vertical direction. | 04-28-2011 |
20130042427 | WIPER LINKAGE - A wiper linkage of a windscreen washing system for a motor vehicle, comprising a motor crank ( | 02-21-2013 |
20130133153 | WIPER CONNECTOR - A wiper connector which includes a connector body and at least one retaining plate, where the connector body has at least one through structure, and one end of the elastic fin is defined as a fastening portion for establishing secure coupling with the connector body. The elastic fin has an opening formed thereon which correspondingly aligning the through structure so that an inserted bolt is retained in the connector body by the retaining plate. The wiper connector is applicable on all bolt-type wiper arms, therefore, fewer disturbances are brought to the users in selection of the wiper connectors. Furthermore, the wiper connector has a simple structure which can be assembled and dismantled easily, where other advantages includes a low damage rate, a high adaptability, and a significant reduce in the expense. Thus, overcoming disadvantages of conventional wiper connectors such as having a complex structure and a poor adaptability. | 05-30-2013 |
20130145570 | WIPER DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A wiper device for a vehicle may include a lower pivot shaft integrally coupled at a lower end thereof to a link lever that may be rotated by a force transmitted from a wiper motor, thus enabling the lower pivot shaft to rotate, wherein the lower pivot shaft includes a coupling protrusion protruding integrally from an upper end of the lower pivot shaft, an upper pivot shaft seated on an upper surface of the lower pivot shaft, the upper pivot shaft having a coupling recess integrally formed on a lower surface thereof to selectively fit the coupling protrusion therein, wherein an arm head may be integrally coupled to an upper end of the upper pivot shaft that protrudes above a cowl top panel, and a shaft holder secured to the cowl top panel while engaging therein a coupled portion between the lower pivot shaft and the upper pivot shaft. | 06-13-2013 |
20130340196 | WINDSHIELD WIPER DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE - The invention relates to a windshield wiper device ( | 12-26-2013 |
20140173846 | DRIVE MEMBER, DEVICE FOR HOLDING A PIPE, IN PARTICULAR FOR WINDSCREEN WASHER LIQUID, AND CORRESPONDING WIPER SYSTEM - A drive member for a wiper carrier of a wiper system for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The driver member includes an orifice designed to receive a drive shaft, the drive shaft being able to rotate about a rotation axis, and an external contour when this drive member is viewed along the rotation axis. The drive member also includes a housing having a groove formed on the drive member and designed to partially receive the pipe in the configuration in which, when the drive member is viewed along the rotation axis and when the pipe is installed on the drive member, the pipe has a curved portion set back from the external contour of the drive member, and a holding means for holding the pipe in the groove when the pipe is installed on the drive member. | 06-26-2014 |
20140289989 | UNIT FOR FIXING AN AUTOMOTIVE WIPER DEVICE - The invention relates to a unit for fixing an automotive wiper device, comprising at least one pivot housing for setting the automotive wiper arm fixing shaft, characterised in that said pivot housing ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140325787 | WIPER APPARATUS - A wiper apparatus is provided with: a wiper arm ( | 11-06-2014 |
20140338145 | CONNECTING STRUCTURE OF WIPER ARM - A connecting structure of a wiper arm may be provided according to an embodiment of the present invention, which includes: an arm head of which one side has an assembly hole and the other side has a first connecting portion; a retainer including a second connecting portion which is formed on one side thereof and is connected with the first connecting portion; and an elastic member connected between the arm head and the retainer. | 11-20-2014 |
20140352099 | WIPER BLADE - Provided is a wiper blade wherein: a pair of accommodation sections ( | 12-04-2014 |
20150013095 | CONNECTION MOUNT, MECHANICAL CONNECTOR AND WIPING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - The present invention relates to a connection mount comprising a support ( | 01-15-2015 |
20150336540 | MECHANISM FOR DYNAMICALLY VARYING BLADE LOAD OVER A WINDSHIELD WIPER SWEEP CYCLE - A wiper arm assembly has a load member, a wiper arm, and a blade load cam with a cam slot. The load member mates with a joint disposed between first and second ends of the wiper arm. Changes in length of the load member impose a force in a lengthwise direction of the load member. The wiper arm is configured to rotate relative to the blade load cam about an axis proximate to the first end of the wiper arm. The cam slot is configured to vary the length of the load member as a function of a wiper angle in which the wiper angle is defined as the angle between the wiper arm and a starting position of the wiper arm. | 11-26-2015 |
20160016538 | LEAF SPRING FOR A VEHICLE WIPER BLADE - A leaf spring for a wiper blade of a vehicle window in a motor car is disclosed. The leaf spring includes at least one flexible leaf, the spring having an elongate shape and including, at a first longitudinal extremity, linking means to at least one stiffening joint of the wiper blade. The leaf spring includes or carries, at a second longitudinal extremity, a tubular member designed to receive a shaft of a driver of the wiper blade. | 01-21-2016 |
20160016539 | VEHICLE WINDOW WIPER ASSEMBLY WITH CURVILINEAR GUIDE RAIL - A windshield wiper assembly includes a telescoping wiper head having a first section fixed to a pivot drive shaft and a second section capable of translating relative to the first section between an extended position and a retracted position. A curvilinear guide rail engages the second section and guides the second section between the extended and retracted positions. A wiper blade is carried on the second section. Advantageously the wiper assembly functions to provide enhanced wiper coverage over the Zone B portion of the windscreen through which the occupants view is typically directed. | 01-21-2016 |
20170232935 | FIN RAY WIPER | 08-17-2017 |
20180022319 | WIPER SYSTEM | 01-25-2018 |