WIPER BLADE ASSEMBLY HAVING MULTI-BEAM

• US 20090158547A1
• Filed: 02/11/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KCW Corporation
• Original Assignee: KCW Corporation
• Inventors: KIM, Tae Kyeong
• Application Number:
  US12/028,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20090158547A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/250.351
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3848 Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3851 Mounting of connector to blade assembly
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3877 embedded in the squeegee
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3813 chacterised by a support harness consisting of several articulated elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3817 chacterised by a backing strip to aid mounting of squeegee in support

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wiper blade assembly for wiping a windshield of a vehicle by the activation of a wiper arm, and the wiper blade assembly includes: a flexible elongated wiper blade having a given elastic force and adapted to come into direct contact with the windshield of the vehicle; a pair of rail springs coupled along the sides of the wiper blade so as to maintain the wiper blade in a predetermined shape; a guide beam coupled to the wiper blade and the rail springs to transfer the load and motion applied from the wiper arm to the wiper blade; and at least one or more auxiliary beams coupled to the guide beam and located in a longitudinal direction of the guide beam between the guide beam and the rail springs.

Claims

1. A wiper blade assembly for wiping a windshield of a vehicle by the activation of a wiper arm, the wiper blade assembly comprising:

a flexible elongated wiper blade having a given elastic force and adapted to come into direct contact with the windshield of the vehicle;

a pair of rail springs coupled along the sides of the wiper blade so as to maintain the wiper blade in a predetermined shape;

a guide beam coupled to the wiper blade and the rail springs to transfer the load and motion applied from the wiper arm to the wiper blade; and

at least one or more auxiliary beams coupled to the guide beam and located in a longitudinal direction of the guide beam between the guide beam and the rail springs.

2. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 1, wherein each of the auxiliary beams has holding portions formed at the both end portions thereof, the holding portions being adapted to fixedly hold the rail springs and the wiper blade together.

3. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 1, wherein each of the auxiliary beams has a given initial curvature.

4. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 3, wherein each of the auxiliary beams is coupled to the guide beam by means of a bolt, riveting, or welding.

5. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 3, wherein a yoke is formed on the top portion of each auxiliary beam and a coupling hole is formed correspondingly on the guide beam, such that as the yoke is coupled to the coupling hole, the auxiliary beam is coupled to the guide beam.

6. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 1, wherein each of the auxiliary beams is stepped at the both end portions thereof and extended linearly along the middle portion thereof.

7. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 1, wherein each of the auxiliary beams is made of a plastic material.

8. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 7, wherein the auxiliary beam further comprises an elastic coupling part protruded upwardly and branched radially from the end portion thereof so as to provide a given elastic force therefrom, the elastic coupling part having the upper portion having a larger sectional area than the lower portion thereof.

9. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 2, wherein each of the auxiliary beams has a given initial curvature.

10. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 9, wherein each of the auxiliary beams is coupled to the guide beam by means of a bolt, riveting, or welding.

11. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 9, wherein a yoke is formed on the top portion of each auxiliary beam and a coupling hole is formed correspondingly on the guide beam, such that as the yoke is coupled to the coupling hole, the auxiliary beam is coupled to the guide beam.

12. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 2, wherein each of the auxiliary beams is stepped at the both end portions thereof and extended linearly along the middle portion thereof.

13. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 2, wherein each of the auxiliary beams is made of a plastic material.

14. The wiper blade assembly according to claim 13, wherein the auxiliary beam further comprises an elastic coupling part protruded upwardly and branched radially from the end portion thereof so as to provide a given elastic force therefrom, the elastic coupling part having the upper portion having a larger sectional area than the lower portion thereof.