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
  • B60S1/04—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers
  • B60S1/32—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers characterised by constructional features of wiper blade arms or blades
  • B60S1/40—Connections between blades and arms
• • 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
  • B60S1/04—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers
  • B60S1/32—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers characterised by constructional features of wiper blade arms or blades
  • B60S1/38—Wiper blades
  • B60S1/3848—Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness
  • B60S1/3849—Connectors therefor; Connection to wiper arm; Attached to blade
  • B60S1/3863—Connectors having a spoiler
• • 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
  • B60S1/04—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers
  • B60S1/32—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers characterised by constructional features of wiper blade arms or blades
  • B60S1/40—Connections between blades and arms
  • B60S1/4067—Connections between blades and arms for arms provided with a side pin
  • B60S1/407—Connections between blades and arms for arms provided with a side pin with means provided on the arm for locking the side pin
• • 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
  • B60S1/04—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers
  • B60S1/32—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers characterised by constructional features of wiper blade arms or blades
  • B60S1/38—Wiper blades
  • B60S1/3848—Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness
  • B60S1/3874—Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness with a reinforcing vertebra
  • B60S1/3875—Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness with a reinforcing vertebra rectangular section
  • B60S1/3879—Flat-type wiper blade, i.e. without harness with a reinforcing vertebra rectangular section placed in side grooves in the squeegee

Definitions

• Wiper blade according to a sidelock principle
• the invention is based on a connecting device for the articulated connection of a wiper arm to a wiper blade according to a sidelock principle according to the preamble of claim 1.
• a connecting device for a wiper arm and a wiper blade which has a wiper blade-side connecting element and a wiper arm-side connecting element, which are arranged side by side in the operating position of the wiper blade.
• the connecting element has a bearing element, which cooperates with a bearing element of the connecting element, so that the wiper blade is connected to a pivot axis about its longitudinal extent pivotally connected to the wiper arm.
• the bearing element on the connecting element is formed by a bearing pin which engages in a hub of the connecting element.
• a locking device in the form of a bridge, which runs parallel to the bearing journal and laterally comprises the connecting element with an angled end. At the other end, the bridge is integrally formed on the connecting element.
• connection device is shown in DE 10 2005 050 569 A1.
• the bridge only partially overlaps the connecting element, wherein the angled end of the bridge dips into a pocket of the connecting element, so that the angled end is covered by a side wall of the connecting element from the outside.
• the connecting element has on its front side a bridge-shaped securing bracket, which partially encloses a connecting element of the wiper arm with its angled end and thus secures the relative position of the bearing pin to the hub.
• an encoder is provided between the connecting element and the connecting element, which only allows a pivoting of the wiper blade in the operating position when the wiper blade is intended for operation with the associated wiper arm.
• the coding device prevents a wiper blade, which basically would fit due to the nature of its connection element to a connecting element of a wiper arm, can be mounted on a wrong vehicle or on a wrong side of the vehicle. Frequently, vehicles on the driver's side and passenger's side have different wiper blade lengths. Since the length of the driver-side wiper blade is usually longer compared to the passenger-side wiper blade, a driver-side wiper blade on the passenger side is solid on the rubber of the water deflector, the A-pillar trim, if it is mounted on the passenger side. This inevitably leads to wiping quality errors. By the connecting device according to the invention such incorrect assembly can be prevented.
• the locking device is often in the form of a bridge or a bracket with an angled end, which holds the connecting element or the connection element in the operating position laterally, it is expedient to provide the coding device on the locking device.
• This expedient consists of a coding cam, which is arranged on the connecting element or on the connecting element and correspondingly fits into a coding recess of the respective other part. If the code cam does not fit in the coding recess, the wiper blade can not be pivoted to the operating position, whereby the assembly fails and incorrect installation is prevented.
• the coding for various applications can be done on the one hand by the shape and shape of the Codiernockens and the Codieraussparung and on the other by the position on the connecting element or on the locking device or on the connection element. As forms triangular or polygonal recesses and cams or single or Mobogige forms into consideration. Furthermore, the position of the coding device on the connecting element or on the connecting element can also be used for coding. The variety of coding possibilities can be further increased by the combination of shape and position. Due to the variety of Kombinsammlungsève false assembly can be avoided with certainty even if multiple windshield wipers must be mounted on a vehicle with connection devices of the same kind. The same applies to similar types of vehicles, which have different wiper blades with the same connection devices.
• FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view of a wiper blade with a connecting device according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a partially transparent, perspective partial view of a first connecting device according to the invention of a windshield wiper set
• FIG. 3 shows a side view of a connecting element according to FIG. 2 in the direction of an arrow III in FIG. 1,
• FIG. 3 shows a side view of a connecting element according to FIG. 2 in the direction of an arrow III in FIG. 1,
• FIG. 3 shows a side view of a connecting element according to FIG. 2 in the direction of an arrow III in FIG. 1, FIG.
• FIG. 4 shows a partially transparent, perspective partial view of a second connecting device according to the invention of a windshield wiper set
• FIG. 5 shows a side view of a connecting element according to FIG. 4 in the direction of an arrow III in FIG. 1.
• Fig. 1 shows a wiper blade 12 with a connection device 10.
• the wiper blade 12 has a wiper strip 14 with a wiper lip 16.
• the wiper strip 14 is on its head strip 20 by a flat pre-bent support member 18 in the form held two parallel spring rails.
• Spoils 22, which extend from the ends of the wiper blade 12 to a connection element 24 of the connection device 10 in the middle region of the wiper blade 12, are mounted on the parts of the support element 18 projecting from the head strip 20.
• Connecting profiles 26 of the connecting element 24 overlap the spoiler 22 a distance in the longitudinal direction of the wiper blade 12.
• the connecting element 24 has a transversely to the longitudinal direction of the wiper blade 12 extending hub 34 in which a bearing pin 38 is mounted, the free end is mounted in a connecting element 36 ,
• the connecting element 36 has a wiping lip 16 towards open U-shaped profile, in the legs 44 of the bearing pin is inserted.
• the connecting element 36 extends in the assembled state laterally from the connection element 24, wherein a locking device 40 is integrally formed on the connecting element 36 on the side toward the connection element 24.
• the locking device 40 engages in the form of a bridge, a top wall 30 of the connecting element 24, the two side walls 32 of the connecting element 24 connects to each other and on the side facing away from the connecting element 36 a pocket 28 forms. In this engages an angled end 42 of the locking device 40.
• the connecting element 24 and thus the wiper blade 12 is fixed in the direction of the bearing pin 38 between the angled end 42 and an inner leg 44 of the connecting element 36.
• the locking device 40 of FIG. 2 has an encoder 46.
• This consists of an integrally formed on the angled end 42 of the locking device 40 Codieraus Principleung 50 in the form of an arcuate section of about 90 ° into which fits the corresponding matching contour of a Codiernockens 48, the Area of the angled end is integrally formed on the connecting element 24.
• the outer contour of the Codiernockens 48 abuts the inner contour of the Codierausappelung 50.
• the encoder 46 thus prevents that a not matching the CodierausEnglishung 50 connecting element can be mounted.
• the coding recess 50 faces the bearing journal 38.
• connection device 10 In the embodiment of the connection device 10 according to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, a coding recess 56 at the angled end 42 to the opposite side. Accordingly, a coding cam 54 of the coding device 52 is arranged on the connecting element 24 such that its convex contour, which fits into the coding recess 56, faces the bearing journal 38. It is easy to see that a wiper blade 12 with a connecting device 10 according to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 can not be criticized on a wiper arm with a connecting element 36 according to FIG. 5, since the coding devices 46 and 52 are characterized by the position of the coding cams 48, 54 and the corresponding Codieraus Principle 50, 56 differ.
• the coding devices 46 and 52 may in principle also differ in the shape of their coding cams 48, 54 and their coding recesses 50, 56, for example in that the coding recesses 50, 56 have different inner contours to which corresponding outer contours of the contour cams 48, 54 fit.
• the coding recesses 50, 56 have different inner contours to which corresponding outer contours of the contour cams 48, 54 fit.
• triangular or polygonal recesses and cams or single or Mobogige forms into consideration. This results in a large number of possible variations in order to differentiate between different wiper arm and wiper blade pairings without being confused with one another. This is particularly advantageous when different wiper blades are used in motor vehicles on the driver side compared to the passenger side. But it is also advantageous if windshield wiper similar types of motor vehicles are to be differentiated against each other.
• connection devices and locking devices for the Sidelock principle As they have been described in the opening, arise for the skilled in the knowledge of the present invention numerous possibilities to find a suitable coding for the respective connection device.

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