Wiper blade
AssigneeMitsuba Corporation
InventorTakashi Hoshino
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Abstract
A holder piece assembly having holder pieces continuously arranged and leaf spring members connecting between each holder piece, and being curved in the longitudinal direction by elastic force of elastic members is provided. The holder piece assembly is mounted on the front edge of a wiper arm through a clip pin. Blade rubber for wiping window glass surface is mounted on the holder piece assembly. The elastic force of the leaf spring members elastically deformed when the blade rubber is allowed to conform with the window glass surface can disperse the pressing force of the wiper arm over the blade rubber longitudinal direction. The dispersed pressing force can be set by changing the connecting angle between each holder piece according to the window glass curvature thereby the wiper blade versatility is improved.
Claims6
A wiper blade mounted on a wiper arm which is oscillatingly provided on a car body for wiping a window glass surface by being pressed on the window glass surface by the wiper arm and being reciprocally oscillated, the wiper blade comprising:
- a blade rubber for wiping the window glass surface;
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- a holder piece assembly including a plurality of holder pieces for holding the blade rubber and an elastic member for connecting the holder pieces to each other in the longitudinal direction, the elastic member being provided in each of the holder pieces;
- wherein a gap is provided between a retaining groove formed in the blade rubber and a holding claw formed in each of the holder pieces, whereby the blade rubber is attachable to, and detachable from, the holder piece assembly;
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- wherein a supporting groove is formed above the retaining groove and a vertebra is inserted into the supporting groove, whereby the vertebra provides a predetermined rigidity to the blade rubber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.