US 11,897,436 B2Granted

Windshield wiper blade

AssigneePylon Manufacturing Corp.

InventorVambi Raymundo Tolentino

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Abstract

A wiper blade including an elongate wiper strip, an elastic backing element and a mounting base. The wiper strip including a lip, a wide portion, and narrower intermediate portion between the lip and the wide portion. The backing element having a top portion from which two legs descend, such that each leg includes a claw that extends towards the opposite leg and has ends that define a gap sized to receive the intermediate portion of the wiper strip. The top portion, legs and claws of defining a wiper strip cavity where the wide portion of the wiper strip is disposed. The mounting base disposed on a section of the backing element and capable of connecting the wiper blade to a wiper arm and receiving force from same, such that the mounting base applies the force from the wiper arm to the backing element, which distributes same along the wiper strip.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A wiper blade comprising:

a mounting base capable of connecting the wiper blade to a wiper arm of a vehicle, the mounting base having a base section, a longitudinal end, a cover securing peg provided proximate the longitudinal end, and a backing element cavity defined within the base section;
an elongate backing element having a top portion secured to the mounting base within the backing element cavity, and a wiper strip cavity;
a cover having a cover securing hole engageable with the cover securing peg, the cover securing hole being shaped and sized to receive and completely encircle the cover securing peg such that significant lateral movement of the cover securing peg within the cover securing hole is prevented;
and
an elongate wiper strip comprising a wiping lip, a wide portion, and an intermediate portion between the wiping lip and the wide portion, wherein the intermediate portion is narrower than the wide portion, and the wide portion is disposed within the wiper strip cavity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/510,214Filed 25 Oct 2021 · continuation
Priority: 26 Oct 2015
Published: US 2022/0041136 A110 Feb 2022
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B60S 1/381
Means, or measures taken, for influencing the aerodynamic quality of the wiper blades: spoilers mounted on the squeegee or on the vertebra
B60S 1/3849
Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness: connectors therefor; Connection to wiper arm; Attached to blade
B60S 1/3851
Connectors therefor; Connection to wiper arm; Attached to blade: mounting of connector to blade assembly
B60S 1/3856
Mounting of connector to blade assembly: gripping the blade

Family

Application62/246,567Us provisional application · filed 26 Oct 2015
Application15/335,138Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Oct 2016
Application16/525,019Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Jul 2019
US 10,363,905 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Jul 2019
US 2022/0041136 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Feb 2022
US 11,155,241 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0113656 A1Published application
US 2019/0351876 A1Published application
US 11,897,436 B2This patent

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