Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60S—SERVICING, CLEANING, REPAIRING, SUPPORTING, LIFTING, OR MANOEUVRING OF VEHICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B60S1/00—Cleaning of vehicles
  • B60S1/02—Cleaning windscreens, windows or optical devices
  • B60S1/56—Cleaning windscreens, windows or optical devices specially adapted for cleaning other parts or devices than front windows or windscreens
  • B60S1/58—Cleaning windscreens, windows or optical devices specially adapted for cleaning other parts or devices than front windows or windscreens for rear windows
  • B60S1/583—Cleaning windscreens, windows or optical devices specially adapted for cleaning other parts or devices than front windows or windscreens for rear windows including wiping devices

Definitions

• the invention relates to a windshield wiper device for motor vehicles, in particular for rear windshield wipers with a wiper motor, which is inserted into a housing base body, wherein the housing base body has at least one portion for supplying power to the wiper motor with at least one
• Such windscreen wiper devices are known in the art.
• Wischeran Siemens are mainly manufactured as compact assemblies.
• the plug position for the power supply of the wiper motor depends on the harness design concept of the respective vehicle manufacturer and thus differs from vehicle to vehicle or from project to project.
• plugs for powering the wiper motor are integrated with various engine components. Consequently, a new tool for the production of each different connector layer must be provided for the production or a new adapted thereto housing with appropriately aligned connector layer are generated, which is associated with increased manufacturing and assembly costs.
• the windshield wiper device according to the invention with the features of independent claim 1 thus has the advantage that during the attachment of the section to the housing base body, the at least one connector provided on the section can be fastened in different plug layers to the housing base body. This makes it possible to adjust the orientation of the plug to the geometrical dimensions dictated by the vehicle.
• the plug can thus be mounted without function and quality-limiting features in different directions of plugging on the housing. And so adapted to the conditions of each vehicle type.
• the fastening means may be formed for example by a ring or a clamp or tab. With a mounting clamp according to the invention a continuous adjustment of the connector position in any desired angular position is possible.
• Alternative attachment options can be formed for example by separate or integrated into the housing clamping or Krimphaken.
• Section engages the housing base in at least one formed on the housing body locking recess.
• a particularly simple handling due to flexible positioning of the plug is achieved when the housing base body and / or the section are formed substantially cylindrical. If the attachment is realized by means of latching connections, in this case the latching recesses can be distributed rotationally symmetrically over the section.
• the plug can thereby be rotationally symmetrical in each layer or fixed in a fixed grid spacing on the housing base body, so that different connector layers can be realized by up to 360 ° offset with a single component.
• the housing base body may comprise a gear housing and a pole housing and be designed to realize different connector layers to each other at least two parts.
• the portion is formed integrally with the pole housing.
• Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a basic housing body according to the
• Figure 2 is a schematic representation of a multi-part housing basic body according to the invention in the form of a gear housing and a pole housing with two plugs;
• FIG. 3 shows a cross-section A-A through the housing base according to FIG. 2;
• Figure 4 is an enlarged partial view of an attachment of the pole housing to the transmission housing by means of clamping hooks; and - A -
• Figure 5 is an enlarged partial view of an attachment of the pole housing to the transmission housing by means of Crimphaken.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a one-piece housing basic body 1 for a rear window device in the form of a transmission housing 2 and a pole housing 3 according to the prior art.
• the housing base body has two plugs 4a in the region of the gear housing 2, by their attachment to the transmission housing 2, the respective indicated by arrows
• Plug directions are fixed.
• another plug 4b is provided with a likewise defined plug-in direction.
• the required plug position depends on the particular wiring harness layout concept of each vehicle manufacturer.
• FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of a basic housing body 1 of a windshield wiper device according to the invention for use for rear windshield wipers, which is designed in several parts to realize the various plug layers, which in this exemplary embodiment consists of a gear housing 2, which has a housing
• Plug 4a having a specified direction indicated by an arrow insertion direction, and a portion 3, which is formed in the form of a pole housing.
• a further connector 4b is arranged at the pole housing 3.
• a fastening means 5 is provided on the pole housing 3, with which the pole housing 3 can be mounted and fixed in different positions on the housing base body 1.
• the fastening means 5 is formed in the form of a ring on which a latching element 6 is formed, which engages for positioning of the pole housing 3 in formed on the housing base body 1 latching recess 7.
• the housing base body 1 is formed in the region of the pole housing 3 as well as the pole housing 3 itself substantially cylindrical or rotationally symmetrical. Also the Locking recesses 7 are arranged rotationally symmetrically distributed over the pole housing 3 in a fixed grid spacing.
• Grid allows a variable arrangement of the connector 4b and thus an adaptation to the wiring harness laying concept of each vehicle by the possibility of realizing various mounting or connector positions by an adjustability of the section or the pole housing 3um up to 360 °.
• the fastening element 5 may be formed, for example, in the form of a fastening ring which can be pushed onto the pole tube 3. If the mounting ring 5 in the region of the locking recesses 7, so a resiliently mounted in the mounting ring 5 locking pin 6 is movable into the individual locking recesses 7 and upon reaching a desired mounting position or connector position in such a detent recess 7, for example, by active displacement in the direction of the locking recess. 7 fixable. To change the connector position, the locking pin 6 can be easily moved out of the locking recess 7 out and then the fastening ring 5 are brought into the new assembly or connector position. To simplify changing the connector position by turning the pole tube 3 and des
• Befest onlysringes 5 may be an assembly aid (not shown) may be provided, for example in the form of a simple sheet metal strip, which during the rotation of the section 5, the locking recess 7, which are not required for the realization of a particular connector layer, and thus a premature locking of the locking bolt 6 in one the Council recesses 7 prevented.
• the portion is formed integrally with the pole housing 3.
• the fastening means 5 is also integrated in the section 3.
• For positioning the plug 4a, 4b and thus for aligning the connector layer is simply the entire pole housing 3, in which here a brush holder is additionally integrated, rotated relative to the transmission housing 2.
• the rotation of the pole housing can be done for example by a standard recording of the gear housing 2 on a mounting device.
• the transmission housing 2 is always inserted or placed in the same position on a workpiece carrier or a mounting receptacle.
• To set the relative position of a coding in the form of a recess 10 is formed in the pole housing, in this embodiment, at the bottom Poltopfrand, in the
• a tool engages, with which the pole housing 3 can then be rotated to the desired angular position or plug position.
• the tool be designed to be radially rotatable and are first brought into engagement with the recess 10, to be subsequently adjusted together with the pole housing 2 radially in the desired connector position.
• the tool may also be formed from a resilient nose, wherein the pole housing 3 is initially rotated in the mounting device until the tool nose engages in the recess 10. At the same time the gear housing 2 is held rigidly in its position during this turning process, so that when latching the
• Both assembly steps are designed so that they can be easily integrated into an assembly line.
• the need for manual twisting of the pole housing 3 in the desired connector position can thus be avoided, which is associated with a reduction in the monthly costs.
• pole housing 3 and gear housing 2 must still be fixed in the adjusted relative position to each other. Possible attachment possibilities of the pole housing 3 and the gear housing 2 in the desired or vehicle-specific relative position to each other are shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
• the fastening variant shown in Figure 4 includes a clamping hook 8, which is plugged into the pole housing 3 through an opening 9 and rests with its one end 8a on the inside of the pole housing 3. At the opposite end
• FIG. 5 an alternative mounting option of the pole housing 3 is shown after setting the desired connector position.
• Crimphaken 9 are formed on the pole housing, which are distributed at regular intervals on the circumference of the pole housing 3 and engage in recesses in the gear housing 2 by being bent over the shoulder 2a of the gear housing 2.
• fastening means 5 and / or the section are formed as separate components.
• two or more fastening bolts 6 may be provided for fixing the portion 3 in a desired connector position to additionally secure a whereabouts in this position.
• the fastening bolts 6 can be arranged, for example, opposite one another or at a certain grid spacing from one another.

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