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US 11,173,879 B2Granted
Streamlined flat windscreen wiper
AssigneeValeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
InventorsEric Poton, Stéphane Houssat, Vincent Gaucher
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Abstract
Streamlined flat windscreen wiper (1), in particular of a vehicle, characterized in that it comprises: a longitudinal wiper blade (8), at least one longitudinal stiffening spine (6), a longitudinal member (7) for holding said wiper blade and said stiffening spine, a longitudinal fairing (2, 3) comprising two end caps (3) and a central mount (2) extending between the end caps and being linked thereto, the mount comprising means for fixing to said stiffening spine or to said member for holding this spine.
Claims15
A fairing for a streamlined flat windscreen wiper of a vehicle, the fairing comprising:
- two end caps;
- and
- a central mount which is situated between the two end caps and which comprises means for fixing to a stiffening spine of the wiper or to a member for holding this spine,
- the central mount comprising, at each of its longitudinal ends, means for linking to one of the end caps,
- wherein the linking means are configured to cooperate by fitting with complementary means of the corresponding end cap,
- wherein the fairing is configured so that a force necessary to separate said linking means from said complementary means by releasing them from one another, is greater than a rupture strength of at least a part of the fairing,
- wherein the fairing comprises a wall having a thinned part that has a reduced thickness from adjacent portions thereof from which the linking means or the complementary means extend,
- wherein said linking means comprise a first finger and said complementary means comprise a second finger,
- wherein the second finger comprises two external lateral faces comprising substantially cylindrical pins embedded in a mass of the second finger, the mass of the second finger wrapping around and completely surrounding an entirety of an outer periphery of the substantially cylindrical pins,
- wherein the second finger extends between two reinforcements, each reinforcement being located at a distance and spaced apart from the second finger,
- wherein each reinforcement out of the two reinforcements bears against a respective longitudinal wall, and
- wherein each reinforcement extends to form a planar face oriented in a vertical plane and facing a corresponding external lateral face out of the two external lateral faces of the second finger.
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A streamlined flat windscreen wiper for a vehicle, comprising:
- a fairing for the streamlined flat windscreen wiper of the vehicle, the fairing comprising:
- two end caps;
- and
- a central mount which is situated between the two end caps and which comprises means for fixing to a stiffening spine of the wiper or to a member for holding this spine, the central mount comprising, at each of its longitudinal ends, means for linking to one of the end caps,
- wherein the linking means are configured to cooperate by fitting with complementary means of the corresponding end cap,
- wherein the fairing is configured so that a force necessary to separate said linking means from said complementary means by releasing them from one another, is greater than a rupture strength of at least a part of the fairing,
- wherein the fairing comprises a wall having a thinned part that has a reduced thickness from adjacent portions thereof from which the linking means or the complementary means extend,
- wherein said linking means comprise a first finger and said complementary means comprise a second finger,
- wherein the second finger comprises two external lateral faces comprising substantially cylindrical pins embedded in a mass of the second finger, the mass of the second finger wrapping around and completely surrounding an entirety of an outer periphery of the substantially cylindrical pins,
- wherein the second finger extends between two reinforcements, each reinforcement being located at a distance and spaced apart from the second finger,
- wherein each reinforcement out of the two reinforcements bears against a respective longitudinal wall, and
- wherein each reinforcement extends to form a planar face oriented in a vertical plane and facing a corresponding external lateral face out of the two external lateral faces of the second finger.
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A fairing for a streamlined flat windscreen wiper of a vehicle, the fairing comprising:
- two end caps;
- and
- a central mount which is situated between the two end caps and which comprises means for fixing to a stiffening spine of the wiper or to a member for holding this spine,
- the central mount comprising, at each of its longitudinal ends, means for linking to one of the end caps,
- wherein the linking means are configured to cooperate by fitting with complementary means of the corresponding end cap,
- wherein the fairing is configured so that a force necessary to separate said linking means from said complementary means by releasing them from one another, is greater than a rupture strength of at least a part of the fairing,
- wherein the fairing comprises a wall having a thinned part that has a reduced thickness from adjacent portions thereof from which the linking means or the complementary means extend,
- wherein said linking means comprise a first finger and said complementary means comprise a second finger,
- wherein the second finger comprises two external lateral faces comprising substantially cylindrical pins embedded in a mass of the second finger, the mass of the second finger wrapping around and completely surrounding an entirety of an outer periphery of the substantially cylindrical pins,
- wherein the second finger extends between two reinforcements, each reinforcement being located at a distance and spaced apart from the second finger, and
- wherein the two reinforcements are not in contact with either of the two external lateral faces of the second finger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.