Device for detachably linking a wiper blade with a wiper arm

US7607194B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Matthias Weber · Uttenreuth, DE
• Harald Rapp · Laufenburg (Baden), DE
• Godelieve Kraemer · Odenthal, DE
• Juergen Mayer · Gaggenau, DE
• Wolfgang Leutsch · Bühl, DE
• Michel Baseotto · Hasselt, BE
• Dirk Herinckx · Zoutleeuw, BE
• Peter De Block · Halen, BE
• Hubert Verelst · Tienen, BE
• Philippe Holsbeekx
• Frans Breesch · Borgloon, BE
• Eric Windmolders · Kermt, BE
• Christian Wilms · Neuss, DE
• Inigo Op't Roodt · Hasselt, BE
• Hans Beelen · Herk-de-Stad, BE
• Robert Vertongen · Heusden-Zolder, BE
• Johnny Geling · Kessel-Lo, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 2001
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2009
• Expiry date: Apr 20, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60S2001/4054
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device is proposed which is used to detachably connect a wiper blade (12) to clean windows, particularly of motor vehicles, to a driven wiper arm (10) featuring a wiper blade holder (50 or 150), whereby the wiper blade (12) that can be placed on the window (20) with a long-stretched-out, rubber elastic wiper strip (18) features a band-like, long-stretched-out elastic supporting element (16) that is curved in the longitudinal direction over its band surfaces (15, 17) on whose lower, concave band surface (17) the wiper strip (18) is arranged parallel to the longitudinal axis. On the outer convex band surface (15) of the supporting element (16) sits a connecting element (26), which features two parallel wall surfaces (36) that are aligned in a vertical plane on the band surface and extend in the longitudinal direction of the wiper blade and that a pivot pin (42) projects from each wall surface, whereby the longitudinal axes of the two pivot pins are aligned with one another. An especially simple embodiment of the articulated connection with an integrated connecting device is achieved if an adapter (66 or 166) that can move in a pendulum fashion is positioned on the two pivot pins of…