Windshield wiper installation for motor vehicles

US4229853A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Gmeiner · Sindelfingen, DE
• Egon Frey · Sindelfingen, DE
• Josef Berger · Tegernsee, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 1978
• Grant date: Oct 28, 1980
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60S1/24
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A windshield wiper installation for motor vehicles, in which wiper arms together with wiper blades which are driven from an electric motor by way of linkage members and wiper shafts, are disposed in the parked position thereof inside of a well in the cowl of the body in front of the windshield; the driving members for the wiper arms are thereby so constructed that the wiper arms together with the wiper blades are manually movable out of their parking position in the wiping direction through a predetermined angular path and subsequently are movable back into the parked position.