Connector between a wiper blade and a wiper arm driving a wiping system
AssigneeValeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
InventorsStéphane Houssat, Claude Aliberti
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Abstract
A connector for a wiper blade, the connector is configured to cooperate pivotably, by a transverse hinge pin, with an adapter designed to allow an articulation link between the blade and a driving arm, the connector includes a body provided with two opposite side flanges, defining a housing designed to receive the adapter, and a pin between the flanges for the articulation link of the blade to the arm, the flanges include, at each of the ends of the hinge pin, a shoulder configured to allow axial guiding of the articulation link between the blade and the arm, the side flanges is configured to allow lateral flexion of the adapter bearing against the shoulder.
Claims15
A connector assembly for a wiper blade, the connector assembly comprising:
- an adapter comprising two opposite side wings configured to receive, between the two opposite side wings, an end of a driving arm;
- and
- a connector,
- wherein the connector is configured to cooperate pivotably, by a transverse hinge pin, with the adapter, thereby forming an articulation link between the wiper blade and the driving arm, the connector comprising:
- a body provided with two opposite side flanges, defining a housing configured to receive the adapter;
- and
- the transverse hinge pin disposed between the two opposite side flanges with each of two ends of the transverse hinge pin held by one of the two opposite side flanges,
- the two opposite side flanges comprising, at each end of the transverse hinge pin, a shoulder configured to provide axial guiding of the articulation link between the wiper blade and the driving arm, while establishing an at least partial separation between the two opposite side flanges and the adapter between the two opposite side flanges, thereby limiting friction between the adapter and the two opposite side flanges, and
- wherein a height of the shoulders is limited to reaching the side wings of the adapter.
A wiper system comprising:
- a wiper blade;
- and
- a connector assembly, the connector assembly comprising:
- an adapter comprising two opposite side wings configured to receive between them an end of a driving arm;
- and
- a connector,
- wherein the connector is configured to cooperate pivotably, by a transverse hinge pin, thereby forming an articulation link between the wiper blade and the driving arm, the connector comprising:
- a body provided with two opposite side flanges, defining a housing configured to receive the adapter;
- and
- the transverse hinge pin between the two opposite side flanges with each of two ends of the transverse hinge pin held by one of the two opposite side flanges,
- the two opposite side flanges comprising at each of the two ends of the transverse hinge pin, a shoulder configured to provide axial guiding of the articulation link between the wiper blade and the driving arm, while establishing an at least partial separation between the two opposite side flanges and the adapter between the two opposite side flanges, thereby limiting friction between the adapter and the two opposite side flanges, and
- wherein a height of the shoulders is limited to reaching the side wings of the adapter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.