Windscreen wiper device

• US 6,820,304 B1
• Filed: 08/13/2002
• Issued: 11/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Federal-Mogul SA (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Federal-Mogul SA (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gossez, Paul, Boland, Xavier
• Primary Examiner(s): Graham, Gary K.
• Application Number:
  US10/110,357
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• Field of Search: 152/504.6, 152/504.4, 152/503.61, 152/503.1, 152/503.2, 403/24, 403/79, 403/67, 403/163
• US Class Current: 15/250.46
• 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 2001/3815 chacterised by the joint between elements

Abstract

A windscreen wiper device comprising an oscillating arm and a frame connected thereto for receiving a wiper blade (5), which frame includes a secondary yoke (3) which is pivotally connected to a primary yoke or carrier (1) about a pivot axis (2), wherein both the carrier primary yoke (1) and the secondary yoke (3) are of at least substantially U-shaped cross section at the location of their interconnection, and wherein said secondary yoke (3) is positioned at least substantially within said primary yoke (1) and wherein the primary yoke (1) includes a closed substantially cylindrical protuberance (8) in each leg of the U-shaped cross section at the location of the pivot axis (2), which protuberance (8) forms a substantially cylindrical bearing surface.

Claims

1. A windscreen wiper device comprising an oscillating arm and a frame connected thereto for receiving a wiper blade, which frame includes a yoke which is pivotally connected to a carrier about a pivot axis, wherein both the carrier and the yoke are of at least substantially U-shaped cross section at the location of their interconnection, and wherein said yoke is positioned at least substantially within said carrier, characterized in that said carrier includes a closed substantially cylindrical protuberance in each leg of the U-shaped cross section at the location of the pivot axis, which protuberance forms a substantially cylindrical bearing surface, and wherein said yoke is externally formed with a longitudinal groove in at least one leg of its U-shaped cross section, along which groove said protuberances of said carrier are guided when said yoke is at least substantially received in said carrier in the longitudinal direction of said carrier.

2. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said protuberances extend inwards on either side relative to the yoke.

3. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 2, wherein the yoke includes a recess in each leg of its U-shaped cross section, at the location of the pivot axis, in which a corresponding protuberance of the carrier pivotally engages.

4. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said carrier is made of a metal and wherein said yoke is made of a plastic material.

5. A method of manufacturing a windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein the two closed substantially cylindrical protuberances are stamped in the sheet material from which the carrier is made before the material is given its U-shaped cross section.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein said longitudinal groove is formed externally in at least one leg of the U-shaped cross section of the yoke, along which groove said protuberance of said carrier is guided when the yoke is at least substantially received in said carrier in the longitudinal direction of said carrier.