Wiper blade
AssigneeMitsuba Corporation
InventorsTakashi Hoshino, Hiroki Tokunaka, Junichi Sekiguchi
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Abstract
A wiper blade (18a) has a rubber holder (22) for holding a blade rubber (21). This rubber holder (22) has a connection block (24) coupled to a wiper arm and two sub-holders (25) fixed on both sides of the connection block (24), and the sub-holders (25) each has two rod-shaped spring members (27) curved with curvature radii smaller than that of a front glass and 11 holder pieces (26) fixed to these rod-shaped spring members (27) in a longitudinal direction at a predetermined interval. Further, this rubber holder (22) is formed so that the two sub-holders (25) are coupled to each other via the connection block (24) in the longitudinal direction.
Claims1
A wiper blade attached to a wiper arm provided swingably to a vehicle to perform a swinging motion on a windshield glass and wipe said windshield glass, the wiper blade comprising:
- two sub-holders coupled in a longitudinal direction via a connection block connected to said wiper arm;
- wherein a plurality of holding pieces respectively provided with holding portions for holding a blade rubber, and a rod-shaped spring member coupling said plurality of holding pieces in the longitudinal direction at a predetermined interval are provided at said sub-holders;
- wherein said connection block is formed by injection-molding of hard resin material;
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- wherein one of said sub-holders is fixed to one end side of said connection block by one end side of the rod-shaped spring member and the other of said sub-holders is fixed to the other end side of said connection block by one end side of the rod-shaped spring member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.