US 2016/0101762 A1Published application

Windscreen wiper device

AssigneeTrico Belgium SA

InventorXavier Boland

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Abstract

A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes at least one longitudinal groove, in which groove at least one longitudinal strip of the carrier element is disposed, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for an oscillating arm, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to said connecting device about a pivot axis near one end thereof, with the interposition of a joint part, wherein said wiper blade comprises a spoiler at a side thereof facing away from the windscreen to be wiped, characterized in that a free end of said spoiler, facing towards an A-pillar of the windscreen to be wiped, is provided with a beveled surface, seen from the windscreen to be wiped.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method of making a windscreen wiper device, comprising the steps of:

making a wiper blade made of an integral piece of a single type of an elastomeric material and extending with an at least substantially constant cross-sectional shape between opposite longitudinal ends, the wiper blade including a wiping part for sealing against a windscreen, the wiper blade further including a holding part interconnected with the wiping part by a tilting web, and the holding part including a longitudinal groove and a spoiler which faces away from the wiping part;
inserting a longitudinal strip of a carrier element into the longitudinal groove of the wiper blade;
and
cutting the spoiler of the wiper blade adjacent at least one of the longitudinal ends to provide the spoiler with a bevelled portion that has a bevelled surface and wherein a height of the wiper blade along the bevelled surface decreases towards the adjacent longitudinal end for avoiding contact between the spoiler and an A-pillar on a vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/974,397Filed 18 Dec 2015
Priority: 11 Jun 2013
Published: 14 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B60S 1/3808
Means, or measures taken, for influencing the aerodynamic quality of the wiper blades: spoiler integral with the squeegee
B60S 1/0461
Arrangement wherein the windscreen frame cooperates with the wipers: arrangement of the side pillars
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 1/3877
Rectangular section: embedded in the squeegee

Family

Application13/877,220Continuation · filed 11 Jun 2013
Application14/974,397Continuation
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