Adapter for motor vehicle wiper blade mount
AssigneeValeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
InventorsEric Poton, Vincent Gaucher, Stephane Houssat
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Abstract
The invention relates to an adapter for a wiper blade mount, the adapter comprising a cover configured to accommodate, inside a central opening, a removable attachment system which allows subsequent temporary fastening of said adapter to an articulated wiper blade arm, when said adapter is implemented on a wiper blade. To this end, the removable attachment system comprises one or more mounting members which take the form of U-clips configured to be removably inserted in the central opening and held in this configuration by means of temporary fastening means. The invention also relates to a wiper blade comprising such an adapter mounted on a wiper blade mount.
Claims12
A wiper blade for a motor vehicle comprising:
- a wiper blade mount comprising a main cross-bar and two secondary cross-bars, said secondary cross-bars being fastened to the main cross-bar and supporting a wiper rubber,
- the main cross-bar comprising a central recess delimited laterally by two lateral edges, the central recess in the main cross-bar being located in line with the central opening in the cover, and
- a platform which extends transversely through the central recess and between the two lateral edges;
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- an adapter for fastening a wiper blade mount on an articulated wiper blade arm, the adapter being removably fastened to the main cross-bar and comprising:
- a cover configured to be removably fastened to the main cross-bar of the wiper blade mount, the cover comprising a central opening delimited laterally by two lateral sides;
- a removable attachment system for removably attaching the articulated wiper blade arm to the adapter, the platform being located in line with said removable attachment system such that the removable attachment system bears against the platform, the removable attachment system comprising at least one mounting member comprising a pivot connection rod extending transversely through the central opening between the two lateral sides of the cover, the pivot connection rod being delimited laterally by two lateral flanks;
- the removable attachment system comprising temporary fastening means for temporarily fastening said removable attachment system to the cover, each mounting member comprising the temporary fastening means for temporary fastening to the cover;
- wherein at least one of the lateral sides of the cover comprises a groove formed on one face of the lateral side or sides located on the side of the central opening, the groove or grooves extending from a lower edge toward an upper edge;
- the groove or grooves being formed on the lateral side or sides of the cover extending from the lower edge of the corresponding lateral face of the cover and toward the upper edge, and blocked at an upper end by a rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.