Apparatus for cleaning or de-icing a vehicle window
AssigneeMicro-Heat, Inc.
InventorsVyshislav Ivanov, Jossef Rogozinski, Uri Arkashevski
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Abstract
Apparatus for cleaning or de-icing a vehicle window, including a reservoir for containing therein a washing fluid, a vessel having an inlet through which the washing fluid is received from the reservoir and an outlet through which the fluid is discharged for cleaning a vehicle window, and a first heating element disposed in the vessel for heating the fluid in the vessel, characterized by an auxiliary heating element being disposed in the vessel for heating the fluid in the vessel, wherein the auxiliary heating element is disposed at a bottom portion of the vessel and is operative to heat a quantity of fluid which is not necessarily sufficient to cover the first heating element.
Claims13
A method for cleaning or de-icing a vehicle window comprising a sequence of fluid heating and discharge cycles including:
- initially heating an initial quantity of fluid in a vessel to a first target temperature at which temperature the initial quantity of fluid in said vessel is discharged and a further quantity of fluid is supplied to said vessel;
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- heating said further quantity of said fluid to a second target temperature at which temperature the further quantity of said fluid in said vessel is discharged and a still further quantity of fluid is supplied to said vessel,
- and wherein said heating element is operated in said vessel substantially continuously through out the sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.