US 6,684,448 B2 · Automatic prop-up device of windshield wiper

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic prop-up device of windshield wiper, which includes a roller device at where the supporting pole of vehicle windshield wiper located and a wedge device at the lower rim of vehicle windshield glass or at the air ventilation panel where the windshield glass adjoining the hood, corresponding to the location of the roller device. When the windshield wiper swings to the near lowest position, it brings the roller device to make opposite movement against the wedge device, so when the roller device moves upwards along the wedge device to prop up the supporting pole of windshield wiper, the scrapping rubber strip of windshield wiper is prop up correspondingly so that the scrapping rubber strip and the windshield glass are separated and not tightly against each other.

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Dependent claims

An automatic prop-up device of windshield wiper mainly comprises two major parts, a roller device and a wedge device, wherein:

said roller device, fixed onto a supporting pole of a windshield wiper device, and said roller device further comprises:
a body, comprising a pole-clamping trough and a washer-clamping trough, wherein said pole-clamping trough can be encased onto said supporting pole of said windshield wiper device and a washer with a screw hole can be placed into said washer-clamping trough, wherein a separation board of said pole-clamping trough and said washer-clamping trough further includes a hole, and a sideboard with plural parallel teeth-shape grooves extended out from a bottom of said body and at the mid-section of said sideboard further includes an elongate hole;
a top pole, shaped as a long flat stick, including a roller at a lower rim, wherein an inner surface of said top pole includes plural parallel teeth-shape grooves that are matched with said teeth-shape grooves on said sideboard of said body, and at the mid-section of said top pole further includes an elongate hole to allow a screw being inserted into said elongate hole and said elongate hole of said sideboard to connect said top pole and said sideboard of said body by screwing a nut tightly;
a washer, which can be set into said washer-clamping trough of said body, including a screw hole to allow a screw to go through and locked;
and
a clamping board, shaped as a shape object, including a hollow interior space with a top board which can be set into said clamping trough of said body and encased onto said supporting pole of windshield wiper while a bottom board thereof is tightly engaged against the bottom of said body, and at the center of said bottom board further including a hole for said screw to be inserted, wherein a front end of said screw is tightly engaged against said supporting pole of windshield wiper after being inserted through said screw hole of said washer and said hole of said body in sequence;
and
said wedge device, constituted of a board with slopping top which can be either a flat-surface slope or a arc-surface slope.

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Summary802 words

#(1) Field of the Invention

#The present invention relates to an automatic prop-up device of windshield wiper, which includes correspondingly a roller device and a wedge device at where the supporting pole of vehicle windshield wiper located, the lower rim of vehicle windshield glass, or the air ventilation panel where the windshield glass adjoining the hood. When the windshield wiper swings to the near lowest position, it brings the roller device to make opposite movement against the wedge device, so when the roller device moves upwards along the wedge device to prop up the supporting pole of windshield wiper and its scrapping rubber strip as well to separate the scrapping rubber strip from the windshield glass and not tightly against each other in order to prolong the usage life of the crapping rubber strip of windshield wiper.

#(2) Description of the Prior Art

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#The present invention will now be specified with reference to its preferred embodiment illustrated in the drawings, in which

#FIG. 1 is a schematic 3-dimentional explosion view of a preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention.

#FIG. 2 is a schematic side cross-section view (1) of a preferred embodiment in use in accordance with the present invention.

Detailed description958 words

#The invention disclosed herein is directed to an automatic prop-up device of windshield wiper. In the following description, numerous details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be appreciated by one skilled in the art that variations of these specific details are possible while still achieving the results of the present invention. In other instance, well-known components are not described in detail in order not to unnecessarily obscure the present invention.

#First please refer to FIG. 1, FIG. 2, and FIG. 3, the schematic views of a preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention.

#The automatic prop-up device of windshield wiper in accordance with the present invention, mainly comprises two major parts, a roller device 1 and a wedge device 2, wherein:

Facts

Application

10/158,939Filed 3 Jun 2002

Published

US 2003/0221275 A14 Dec 2003

Granted

3 Feb 2004

Term ended

3 Jun 2022

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification2 codes

B60S 1/0455
Position of the wipers relative to the vehicle: device for lifting the wipers off the screen in its parking position or at extremes of wipe
B60S
Servicing, cleaning, repairing, supporting, lifting, or manoeuvring of vehicles, not otherwise provided

Automatic prop-up device of windshield wiper

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