Motor vehicles windscreen wiper comprising a spray line on the wiper blade

• US 5,661,870 A
• Filed: 09/19/1996
• Issued: 09/02/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Valeo Systemes D Essuyage (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Systemes D'Essuyage (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Eustache, Jean-Pierre, Roumegoux, Jean-Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Graham, Gary K.
• Application Number:
  US08/716,383
• Time in Patent Office: 348 Days
• Field of Search: 15/250.04, 15/250.01, 15/250.02, 15/250.201, 15/250.46, 15/250.44, 15/250.361, 15/250.43, 15/250.48, 15/250.41 , 15/250.31, 15/250.32
• US Class Current: 15/250.04
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3801 characterised by a blade support harness consisting of several articulated elements B60S1/3803, B60S1/3806 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3806 Means, or measures taken, for influencing the aerodynamic quality of the wiper blades
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/524 arranged in wiper blades
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3813 chacterised by a support harness consisting of several articulated elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/3815 chacterised by the joint between elements

Abstract

A motor vehicle windscreen wiper comprising blade holder arm, a wiper blade and a spray line for spraying the window or windscreen to be wiped. Said spray line extends substantially along one side surface of the wiper blade and the wiper blade comprises a hinged pressure distribution construction comprising at least one intermediate yoke hinged to a main yoke about a hinge pin, and a noise-reducing member with two parallel side walls inserted between the side arms of the main yoke and the side flanges of the intermediate yoke. Said spray line extends along one of the side arms of the main yoke and is integrally moulded into the material of the noise-reducing member.

Claims

1. A screen wiper assembly for movement over a swept glass surface of a motor vehicle, said assembly comprising:

an elongated wiper arm;

an elongated screen wiper blade supported by said arm;

an elongated ramp having spray means thereon for wetting the swept glass surface, said ramp extending substantially along a lateral face of the screen wiper blade, said screen wiper blade includes an articulated pressure distribution structure which comprises a pair of intermediate yokes, said intermediate yokes articulated on an elongated main yoke about a pair of pivot pins, said pivot pins extend substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the main yoke and extend through, respectively, two side wing portions of the main yoke and two parallel side portions of the intermediate yoke; and

a pair of noise deadening elements, each having two parallel side walls, are interposed between the side wing portions of the main yoke at opposite ends, respectively, and the parallel side portions of the intermediate yokes, and through which the pivot pins pass, the wetting ramp extends along one of the side wing portions of the main yoke, and the ramp is formed integrally by moulding of one piece with the noise deadening elements.

2. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 1, wherein the spray means comprises a longitudinal wetting body portion having an outer face, in said body portion there extends longitudinally a channel for distribution of the washing liquid, and which has a set of orifices for spraying the swept glass surface, and in that the longitudinal wetting body portion is joined to a longitudinal lower edge of one of the side walls of the noise deadening element.

3. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 2, wherein the wetting body portion is formed with an integral, vertical stiffening wall, in which two side walls of the two noise deadening elements are integrated.

4. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 2, wherein the wetting ramp extends along a lower edge of the associated side wing portion of the main yoke, and in that it has a form which substantially matches that of the said side wing portion.

5. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 4, wherein the outer face of the wetting body portion is profiled so as to constitute an aerodynamic deflector.

6. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 5, wherein the wetting body portion includes, at one of its longitudinal ends, a connection for connecting the distribution channel to a duct for supply of washing liquid under pressure.

7. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 2, wherein the wetting body portion includes, at one of its longitudinal ends, a connection for connecting the distribution channel to a duct for supply of washing liquid under pressure.

8. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 1, wherein the wetting ramp includes a longitudinal mounting body portion formed integrally by moulding with the longitudinal wetting body portion, and which has a profile in the form of an inverted U in transverse cross section, which is complementary to the profile of the main yoke within which the said body portion is lodged, the two noise deadening elements being integrated in the wetting body portion.

9. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 8, wherein the mounting body portion comprises two parallel stiffening walls together with an upper connecting spine portion.

10. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 9 wherein the main yoke has an upper spine portion which joins together the side wing portions, and which has an opening for passage through it of a connector for articulation of an end of the screen wiper arm on a pivot pin which extends transversely between the side wing portions, facing the opening, and in that the connecting spine portion of the mounting body of the wetting ramp has an opening which is complementary to the opening in the spine portion of the main yoke, and in that upper edges of the lateral stiffening walls, in the region of the opening, have aligned notches in which the pivot pin is fitted elastically, so as to complete fastening of the wetting ramp on the main yoke in the central articulating zone of the latter.

11. A screen wiper assembly according to claim 10, wherein wetting ramp extends along the lower edge of the associated side wing portion of the main yoke, and in that it has a form which substantially matches that of the said side wing portion.