Height-adjustable windshield wiper

US4741067A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Arno Jambor · Leinfelden, DE
• Gunther Ellenrieder · Eßlingen, DE
• Hans-Joachim Ostertag · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 21, 1986
• Grant date: May 3, 1988
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60S1/0452
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a windshield wiper installation for vehicles, the windshield wipers are lowered into a rest position behind an engine hood after the wiper motor is turned off in that a support arm which supports the wiper motor, the wiper gear and the wiper arm is displaced changing in height along at least one toothed rack guidance by an adjusting motor acting on a pinion.