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US 11,142,167 B2Granted
Wiper blade with directionally differentiated motion
AssigneeSteam Tech, LLC
InventorPhilip Hartman
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Abstract
A wiper including wiper bracket which couples a wiper arm to blade carrier which carries one or more blades and includes an internal flow path which conducts fluid from a wiper bracket inlet through a hollow passage in a wiper blade carrier cover to plurality of outlets aligned with passthroughs in the blade carrier through which fluid egresses from the wiper.
Claims6
A wiper blade, comprising:
- a base having a base first side opposite a base second side joined by a base face, said base first side or said base second side includes a taper extending between said base first side or said base second side and said base face;
- a flexible member outwardly projecting from said base face and extending between said base first end and said base second end;
- a sweep outwardly projecting from said flexible member to terminate in a sweep terminal, said flexible member flexes to allow said sweep terminal to travel from a resting position toward said taper or away from said taper, said sweep engaging said taper to delimit travel of said sweep toward said taper in a first degree arc, said sweep engaging said base face to delimit travel of said sweep away from said taper in a second degree arc;
- and wherein
- said first degree arc has a maximum angle greater than a maximum angle of said second degree arc.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.