Backing member in wiperblade of windshield wiper

• US 4,807,326 A
• Filed: 02/18/1988
• Issued: 02/28/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nippon Wiper Blade Company Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Wiper Blade Company Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Arai, Masaru, Saita, Itsuro
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/157,267
• Time in Patent Office: 376 Days
• Field of Search: 15/250.32-250.42
• US Class Current: 15/250.43
• 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 2001/3818 the backing strip being a channel-like element, e.g. not continuous

Abstract

A backing member of a wiperblade of a windshield wiper and comprising two elongated body elements extending parallel at a spaced apart relationship and extending substantially along the entire length of a blade rubber to which the backing member is mounted, a plurality of bridge portions being spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the backing member and connecting the body elements, the space between the body elements being adapted to receive a neck portion of the blade rubber, the bridge portions extending in the sidewise direction and above the body elements so as to define a space above the body elements for receiving a head portion of the blade rubber, and two longitudinally spaced apart pivot connections for connecting with a yoke member of the wiper. At least one of the pivot connections is adapted to permit relative longitudinal displacement of corresponding pivot connection of the yoke member. The curvature and the rigidity of the backing member are changed in the longitudinal direction.

Claims

1. A backing member in a wiperblade of a windshield wiper, said backing member comprises two elongated body elements extending parallel at a spaced apart relationship and extending substantially along the entire length of a blade rubber to which the backing member is mounted, a plurality of bridge portions being spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the backing member and connecting the body elements, the space between the body elements being adapted to receive a neck portion of the blade rubber, the bridge portions extending in the sidewise direction and above the body elements so as to define a space above the body elements for receiving a head portion of the blade rubber, and two longitudinally spaced apart pivot connections for connecting with a yoke member of the wiper, at least one of the pivot connections being adapted to permit relative longitudinal displacement of corresponding pivot connection of the yoke member, and the curvature of the lower surfaces of the body elements and the rigidity of the backing member being changed in the longitudinal direction.

2. A backing member as set forth in claim 1, wherein the rigidity is high at the pivot connections and is low at the longitudinally central portion and at opposite end portions.

3. A backing member as set forth in claim 1, wherein the curvature is small at opposite end portions and is large at the central portion.

4. A backing member as set forth in claim 1, wherein the curvature at the longitudinally central portion is downwardly convex.

5. A backing member as set forth in claim 1, wherein metal strips are embedded in the backing member of synthetic resin material.

6. A backing member as set forth in claim 1, wherein cutout portions are formed in the body elements at locations where the bridge portions are connected to the body elements, whereby the backing member can easily formed by die forming process.

7. A backing member as set forth in claim 1, wherein means for restricting relative displacement of the blade rubber is provided on one longitudinal end portion of the backing member.