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US 11,097,692 B2Granted
Adapter for connecting a wiper blade to a drive arm
AssigneeValeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
InventorsVincent Gaucher, Stéphane Houssat, Qibin Wang
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Abstract
An adapter (112) for connecting a wiper blade to a drive arm, the adapter comprising two substantially parallel walls (28) connected together by at least one connecting element (30), said walls comprising first inner side faces (28a) between which said at least one connecting element extends, and outer side faces (28b) comprising protruding sliding guide patterns (132), characterised in that said patterns are divided into lines and columns.
Claims15
An adapter for connecting a wiper to a drive arm, the adapter comprising:
- two substantially parallel walls joined together by at least one connecting element, said parallel walls comprising internal first lateral faces between which said at least one connecting element extends, and external lateral faces comprising projecting sliding-guidance patterns,
- wherein said projecting sliding-guidance patterns are distributed in rows and columns, and are separated from one another by grooves that form drainage channels which are, over at least part of their length, inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis of the adapter,
- wherein an angle formed by the inclined grooves with respect to the longitudinal axis is strictly comprised between 0° and 90°,
- wherein the longitudinal axis of the adapter is parallel to a top surface of the at least one connecting element,
- wherein at least some of said patterns form squares, circles, diamonds, triangles and/or polygons.
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