Windshield de-icing
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Apparatus (20) for cleaning a window (24) of a vehicle (22), including a vessel (28) having an inlet (32) through which a washing fluid is received from a reservoir and an outlet (34) through which the fluid is discharged for cleaning the window. There is a heating (50) for heating the fluid in the vessel, which element preheats the vessel before the washing fluid is received therein, whereby at least an initial quantity of the fluid is rapidly heated and discharged from the vessel.
22 Citations
54 Claims
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1-48. -48. (canceled)
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49. A method for cleaning a window of a vehicle using a washing fluid, comprising:
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introducing a quantity of washing fluid into a vessel;
heating the quantity of the fluid in the vessel;
measuring an outside temperature outside said vehicle, and;
discharging the fluid onto a window of the vehicle in response to the outside temperature. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53)
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50-51. -51. (canceled)
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54-58. -58. (canceled)
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