WIPER BLADE ASSEMBLY

• US 20080098554A1
• Filed: 06/08/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KCW Corporation, KWC Corporation
• Original Assignee: KWC Corporation
• Inventors: CHO, Kyung-Hee
• Application Number:
  US11/760,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20080098554A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/250.32
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/38 Wiper blades provided with liquid spreading means B60S1/524; provided with gas spreading means B60S1/546
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/381 Spoilers mounted on the squeegee or on the vertebra
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3879 placed in side grooves in the squeegee
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/382 the backing strip being an essentially planar reinforcing strip, e.g. vertebra

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a wiper blade assembly which is connected to an automobile wiper arm by means of a connector while coming into close contact with the glass surface of an automobile windshield. The wiper blade assembly includes a flexible blade, an elastic member, and a spoiler. The wiper blade assembly has the effect of reducing the number of constituent elements and achieving the easy assembling operation of the elements by virtue of a simplified configuration thereof.

Claims

1. A wiper blade assembly to be connected to an automobile wiper arm by means of a connector while coming into contact with the glass surface of an automobile windshield, the wiper blade assembly comprising:

a flexible blade including a blade edge, a receiving groove formed in a side surface thereof to extend along a longitudinal direction of the blade, and separation-preventing stepped portions formed at both longitudinal ends of the receiving groove;

an elastic member originally having a predetermined curvature and configured to extend the longitudinal direction of the blade, the elastic member including a coupling portion to be received into the receiving groove of the flexible blade and a surplus portion not to be received in the receiving groove, the surplus portion having spoiler fitting holes; and

a spoiler including protrusions to be fitted into the fitting holes of the elastic member, and a guiding/receiving structure to guide the insertion of the elastic member so as to receive the surplus portion of the elastic member.

2. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 1, wherein the elastic member has a length longer than an inner longitudinal length of a receiving space defined by the associated receiving groove and the separation-preventing stepped portions of the receiving groove.

3. A wiper blade assembly to be connected to an automobile wiper arm by means of a connector while coming into contact with the glass surface of an automobile windshield, the wiper blade assembly comprising:

a flexible blade including a blade edge formed at a lower surface thereof, two receiving grooves formed in opposite side surfaces thereof to extend along a longitudinal direction of the blade, and separation-preventing stepped portions formed at both longitudinal ends of each receiving groove;

two elastic members originally having a predetermined curvature and configured to extend the longitudinal direction of the blade, each elastic member including a coupling portion to be received into the associated receiving groove of the flexible blade and a surplus portion not to be received in the receiving groove, the surplus portion having spoiler fitting holes; and

a spoiler including protrusions to be fitted into the fitting holes of the elastic member, and two guiding/receiving structures to guide the insertion of the two elastic members so as to receive the surplus portions of the elastic members, respectively.

4. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 3, wherein the elastic member has a length longer than an inner longitudinal length of a receiving space defined by the associated receiving groove and the separation-preventing stepped portions of the receiving groove.

5. A wiper blade assembly to be connected to an automobile wiper arm by means of a connector while coming into contact with the glass surface of an automobile windshield, comprising:

a flexible blade including a blade edge, a receiving groove formed in a side surface thereof to extend along a longitudinal direction of the blade, and separation-preventing stepped portions formed at both longitudinal ends of the receiving groove;

an elastic member originally having a predetermined curvature and configured to extend the longitudinal direction of the blade, the elastic member including a coupling portion to be received into the receiving groove of the flexible blade and a surplus portion not to be received in the receiving groove, the surplus portion having spoiler fitting holes; and

a spoiler including protrusions to be fitted into the fitting holes of the elastic member, and a guiding/receiving structure to guide the insertion of the elastic member so as to receive the surplus portion of the elastic member,

wherein the spoiler is longitudinally divided into two parts on the basis of the connector.

6. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 5, wherein the elastic member has a length longer than an inner longitudinal length of a receiving space defined by the receiving groove and the separation-preventing stepped portions of the receiving groove.