Wiper apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMamoru Kagawa
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Abstract
A wiper apparatus for a vehicle capable of absorbing impact applied from outside. The wiper apparatus has a rocking wiper arm and a wiper blade attached to a tip end of the wiper arm for wiping a windshield, a pivot fixed to a base end of the wiper arm, and a pivot holder attached to a car-body panel, pivotally supporting the pivot and movable toward inside of a car-body by a load applied from outside of the vehicle substantially in an axial direction of the pivot. Alternatively, a load absorbing member may be provided outside of a section of the wiper arm where the pivot is fixed.
Claims17
A wiper apparatus for a vehicle having a rocking wiper arm and a wiper blade attached to a tip end of the wiper arm for wiping a windshield, comprising:
- a pivot fixed to a base end of said wiper arm;
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- a pivot holder attached to a car-body panel, pivotally supporting said pivot and movable inwardly of said car-body panel by a load applied from outside of said vehicle to said wiper apparatus near said pivot, substantially in an axial direction of said pivot;
- said pivot holder being attached to said car-body panel through a section having low break strength.
A wiper apparatus for a vehicle having a rocking wiper arm and a wiper blade attached to a tip end of the wiper arm for wiping a windshield, the apparatus comprising:
- a pivot adapted to be fixed to a base end of the wiper arm;
- a pivot holder attached to a car-body panel and pivotally supporting said pivot;
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- means operatively associated with said pivot for absorbing an external impact load applied to the apparatus near said pivot substantially in an axial direction of the pivot, to thereby minimize damage caused to the apparatus by the impact load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.