Windshield wiper device

• US 8,499,408 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2013
• Issued: 08/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trico Belgium SA
• Original Assignee: Federal-Mogul SA (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Boland, Xavier
• Primary Examiner(s): GRAHAM, GARY K
• Application Number:
  US13/759,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20130145569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 182 Days
• Field of Search: 152/503.2, 152/503.3, 152/503.51, 152/504.3, 152/504.4, 152/502.01, 152/503.61
• US Class Current: 15/250.32
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/3868 pin formed on the exterior of side walls
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/40 Connections between blades and arms
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/4064 the channel-shaped end being provided with protrusions on, or holes in, the side walls to create a pivot
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/4087 the end being provided with protrusions or holes
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 2001/4054 the intermediate element engaging the back part of the arm

Abstract

A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, a connecting device pivotally connected to the connecting device about a pivot axis near one end. The connecting device comprises at least a first part and a second part and first and second retaining means for retaining the connecting device onto the oscillating arm. The first retaining means comprises at least one first protrusion on the second part engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in the oscillating arm, and wherein the second retaining means comprise at least one second protrusion provided on the first part engaging the oscillating arm.

Claims

1. A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes opposing longitudinal grooves on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves spaced-apart longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for an oscillating arm, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to said connecting device about a pivot axis near one end, wherein said connecting device comprises at least two parts provided with protrusion/hole means for detachably connecting said parts together, wherein the first part is retained onto the wiper blade and wherein the second part has an at least substantially U-shaped cross-section at the location of its connection to said first part, wherein said windscreen wiper device is provided with first and second retaining means for retaining said connecting device onto said oscillating arm, wherein said first retaining means comprises at least one first protrusion on the second part engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in said oscillating arm, and wherein said second retaining means comprise at least one second protrusion provided on the first part engaging the oscillating arm, wherein said first part is positioned at least substantially within said second part and that said second protrusion engages into a correspondingly shaped hole with a closed circumference provided on the oscillating arm or into a correspondingly shaped hole with an open circumference provided on a longitudinal side of the oscillating arm or into a correspondingly shaped recess provided on the oscillating arm.

2. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said first protrusion engages into a correspondingly shaped hole with a closed circumference provided on the oscillating arm.

3. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said first protrusion engages into a correspondingly shaped hole with an open circumference provided on a longitudinal side of the oscillating arm.

4. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said first protrusion engages into a correspondingly shaped recess provided on the oscillating arm.

5. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said first protrusion extends downwardly from a base of the U-shaped cross-section of said second part.

6. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said second protrusion extends upwardly from said first part.

7. A windscreen wiper device according to claim 1, wherein said first part comprises engaging members made integral therewith for engaging around the longitudinal sides of the longitudinal strips that face away from each other.