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US 4,907,315 AGranted
Wiper arm of windshield wiper
AssigneeNippon Wiperblade Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaru Arai, Itsuro Saita
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Abstract
A wiper arm device of the kind including a rotatable arm head connected to a wiper motor, a retainer rockingly connected to the arm head through a hinge pin, a spring with one end connected to the retainer and the other end connected to a roller pin, and a link supporting the roller pin and being rockable around a pivot shaft which is mounted on the arm head. The link can be forcibly displaced in response to the movement of the wiper arm from the rock-back condition toward the normal operating condition.
Claims3
A wiper arm device comprising;
- a rotatable arm head adapted to be connected to a wiper motor, a wiper blade supporting retainer, a hinge pin rockingly connecting said retainer to said arm head for pivoting movement between a normal condition and a rock back condition, a spring having one end connected to said retainer, a roller pin to which the other end of said spring is connected, a link supporting said roller pin, a pivot shaft mounted on said arm head and around which said link is rockable, said arm head having a groove therein, and a pin displacable in said groove when said rtainer is pivoted toward the normal condition for forcibly displacing said link from the rock back condition toward the normal condition.
A wiper arm device comprising;
- a rotatable arm head adapted to be connected to a wiper motor, a wiper blade supporting retainer, a hinge pin rockingly connecting said retainer to said arm head for pivoting movement between a normal condition and a rock back condition, a spring having one end connected to said retainer, a roller pin to which the other end of said spring is connected, a link supporting said roller pin, a pivot shaft mounted on said arm head and around which said link is rockable, a member secured to said retainer and projecting toward said link and which, when said wiper arm is in the rock back condition, is spaced slightly from said link, and when said wiper arm returns to the normal operating condition said member engages with and forcibly moves said link down in response to the movement of said retainer toward the normal condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.