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US 6,519,802 B2Granted
Active wiper system for an automobile
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorJeong-Hoon Lee
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a wiper system for an automobile and more particularly, to an active wiper system which secures a good front visual range by changing the track of the wiper blade of a passenger's side and positioning pertinently the wiper blade in each range of the track, thus preventing rainwater wiped by the wiper blade of a passenger's side from dropping down to the front of a driver's side while driving in the rain.
Claims5
An active wiper system for an automobile, said system comprising:
- a passenger side wiper and a driver side wiper, said wipers being driven by a wiper drive to sweep a windshield;
- said wiper drive including;
- a pivot shaft pivotally mounted in a body member and slidably moveable upwardly and downwardly therein, said pivot shaft is integrally connected at an upper end thereof with said passenger side wiper and is biased downwardly in the body member by a pivot shaft spring;
- a link member is connected perpendicularly to a lower end of said pivot shaft and has a stopper member thereon which is coupled with a link rod;
- a slider is slidable coupled in an opening within said link member;
- a contoured rail is provided and adapted to be coupled with the automobile and is engageable by said slider during wiper drive actuation such that said slider can engage said rail to move said link member, pivot shaft and attached passenger side wiper vertically during a portion of the sweep.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.