FLAT WIPER BLADE AND COUPLING METHOD

• US 20150258965A1
• Filed: 12/23/2014
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KBWS Corporatio
• Original Assignee: KCW Corporation
• Inventors: AN, Jae-Hyuck
• Application Number:
  US14/581,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20150258965A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/381 Spoilers mounted on the squeegee or on the vertebra
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3848 Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3853 Snap-fit, e.g. elastic connection
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3879 placed in side grooves in the squeegee
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3881 in additional element, e.g. spoiler
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3841 Squeegee modifications to prevent longitudinally sliding of squeegee in support structure

Abstract

A flat wiper blade may be provided that includes: a wiper strip 10; a guide spring 30; a spoiler 40; and a seating part 100. The wiper strip 10 and the guide spring 30 are coupled to the spoiler 40. The spoiler 40 is made of an elastic material and includes a central portion 41. The seating part 100 includes a seating slot 101 into which the central portion 41 of the spoiler 40 is inserted. The central portion 41 of the spoiler 40 is elastically transformed by being pressed and then is inserted into the seating slot 101 of the seating part 100.

Claims

1. A flat wiper blade comprising:

a wiper strip;

a guide spring;

a spoiler; and

a seating part,

wherein the wiper strip and the guide spring are coupled to the spoiler,

wherein the spoiler is made of an elastic material and comprises a central portion,

wherein the seating part comprises a seating slot into which the central portion of the spoiler is inserted,

and wherein the central portion of the spoiler is elastically transformed by being pressed and then is inserted into the seating slot of the seating part.

2. The flat wiper blade of claim 1, wherein the seating part is made of a material which is rigid without being transformed.

3. The flat wiper blade of claim 1,

wherein an opening is formed under the seating slot by a pair of right and left extension parts extending toward a central portion of the seating part from both sides of a lower portion of the seating part,

wherein a width of the opening is less than an inner width of the seating slot,

wherein the seating part comprises an inner corner,

wherein an interval between one upper end of the extension part and the inner corner opposite to the upper end is less than a width direction length of an outer contour of a cross section of the central portion of the spoiler, the cross section which is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the spoiler, and the interval is greater than a width direction length of the guide spring,

and wherein the extension part of the seating part comprises a first surface which comes in contact with the central portion when the central portion of the spoiler begins to be transformed in order to be pressed and inserted into the seating slot of the seating part, and comprises a second surface which comes in contact with the central portion under a state where the central portion of the seating part has been pressed and inserted into the seating slot of the seating part.

4. The flat wiper blade of claim 3, wherein the first surface of the extension part is curved such that a thickness of the extension part is reduced toward the opening.

5. The flat wiper blade of claim 3, wherein lengths of the pair of extension parts extending toward the width direction central portion of the seating part are different from each other.

6. The flat wiper blade of claim 1, wherein the spoiler comprises a coupling slot into which the wiper strip and the guide spring are inserted.

7. The flat wiper blade of claim 3,

wherein the spoiler comprises a first fin and a second fin which are formed outwardly from the central portion in the longitudinal direction of the spoiler,

and wherein, when the central portion of the spoiler is coupled to the seating slot of the seating part, a first surface of the first fin, the first surface which is toward a longitudinal central portion of the spoiler, mutually faces a first seating surface formed on one longitudinal end of the seating part, and a second surface of the second fin, the second surface which is toward the longitudinal central portion of the spoiler, mutually faces a second seating surface formed on the other longitudinal end of the seating part.

8. The flat wiper blade of claim 1,

wherein the wiper strip comprises a first protrusion formed on one longitudinal end of the wiper strip,

and wherein the guide spring comprises a first insertion portion which is formed on one longitudinal end thereof and into which the first protrusion is inserted.

9. The flat wiper blade of claim 8,

wherein the wiper strip further comprises a second protrusion formed on the other longitudinal end of the wiper strip, and

wherein the guide spring comprises a second insertion portion which is formed on the other longitudinal end thereof and into which the second protrusion is inserted.

10. The flat wiper blade of claim 9, wherein the first insertion portion of the guide spring is open toward the one end of the guide spring, the one end in which the first insertion portion is formed.

11. The flat wiper blade of claim 3, wherein the seating part comprises an inner surface on which a concave portion or a convex portion is formed.

12. The flat wiper blade of claim 3, wherein the central portion of the spoiler comprises an outer surface on which a convex portion or a concave portion is formed.

13. The flat wiper blade of claim 3,

wherein the seating part comprises an inner surface on which a concave portion or a convex portion is formed,

wherein the central portion of the spoiler comprises an outer surface on which a convex portion or a concave portion, each of which corresponds to the concave portion or the convex portion respectively, is formed, and

wherein, when the central portion of the spoiler is coupled to the seating slot of the seating part, the convex portion or the concave portion of the outer surface of the central portion of the spoiler is engaged respectively with the concave portion or the convex portion of the inner surface of the seating part.

14. The flat wiper blade of claim 11, wherein the concave portion of the inner surface of the seating part has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a smaller distance along the inner surface from the opening, or wherein the convex portion of the inner surface of the seating part has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a greater distance along the inner surface from the opening.

15. The flat wiper blade of claim 13, wherein the concave portion of the inner surface of the seating part has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a smaller distance along the inner surface from the opening, or wherein the convex portion of the inner surface of the seating part has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a greater distance along the inner surface from the opening.

16. The flat wiper blade of claim 12, wherein the convex portion 48 of the outer surface of the central portion of the spoiler has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a smaller distance along the outer surface from the opening, or wherein the concave portion of the outer surface of the central portion of the spoiler has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a greater distance along the outer surface from the opening.

17. The flat wiper blade of claim 13, wherein the convex portion of the outer surface of the central portion of the spoiler has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a smaller distance along the outer surface from the opening, or wherein the concave portion of the outer surface of the central portion of the spoiler has a shape including at least one wedge having a catching surface located at a greater distance along the outer surface from the opening.