WO2006018453A1 - Windscreen wiper device - Google Patents
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- WO2006018453A1 WO2006018453A1 PCT/EP2005/054118 EP2005054118W WO2006018453A1 WO 2006018453 A1 WO2006018453 A1 WO 2006018453A1 EP 2005054118 W EP2005054118 W EP 2005054118W WO 2006018453 A1 WO2006018453 A1 WO 2006018453A1
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- windscreen
- wiper blade
- wiper
- wiper device
- wiped
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- B60S1/3806—Means, or measures taken, for influencing the aerodynamic quality of the wiper blades
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- 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
- B60S2001/3812—Means of supporting or holding the squeegee or blade rubber
- B60S2001/3817—Means of supporting or holding the squeegee or blade rubber chacterised by a backing strip to aid mounting of squeegee in support
- B60S2001/382—Means of supporting or holding the squeegee or blade rubber chacterised by a backing strip to aid mounting of squeegee in support the backing strip being an essentially planar reinforcing strip, e.g. vertebra
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- 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
- B60S2001/3812—Means of supporting or holding the squeegee or blade rubber
- B60S2001/3822—Means of supporting or holding the squeegee or blade rubber characterised by additional means to prevent longitudinal sliding of squeegee in support, e.g. clips
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes opposing longitudinal grooves on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves spaced-apart longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed, which windscreen wiper device further comprises a connecting device for an oscillating arm, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to said connecting device about a pivot axis near one end.
- the invention also refers to a method for manufacturing such a windshield wiper device.
- Such a windscreen wiper device is known from German patent publication no. 101 30 903 (Robert Bosch GmbH), for example.
- the prior art windscreen wiper device is designed as a
- a disadvantage of the windscreen wiper device known from the above-mentioned German patent document is the following.
- the oscillating arm of this prior art windscreen wiper device is pivotally connected to a mounting head fixed for rotation to a shaft driven by a small motor.
- the shaft rotates alternately in a clockwise and in a counter-clockwise sense carrying the mounting head into rotation also, which in turn draws the oscillating arm into rotation and by means of the connecting device moves the wiper blade.
- a spring is hooked with its first end on the mounting head and with its second end on the oscillating arm in order to ensure that the oscillating arm and thus the wiper blade connected thereto is pressed onto the windscreen to be wiped.
- a windscreen wiper device of the type mentioned in the introduction to the description according to the invention is characterized in that said wiperblade and/or said strips comprise (s) a superelastic material such that said wiper blade has a pre- shape with a specific curvature and is deformed when placed in abutment with the windscreen to be wiped, wherein an at least substantially constant force is applied on said windscreen by outer ends of said wiper blade, independent of the curvature of said windscreen.
- said superelastic wiperblade and/or said superelastic strips ensure (s) that said wiper blade is deformable from an original position when it is not placed against the windscreen to be wiped (for example, when it is packaged in a package, holder or container) into a working position when it is placed against the windscreen to be wiped, and vice versa, in such a manner that — in the original position the wiper blade exhibits a shape with a predetermined curcature, whereas
- the wiper blade in the working position the wiper blade has a curvature corresponding to the curvature of the windscreen to be wiped, while a constant force is applied on said windscreen by the outer ends of said wiper blade, independent of the specific curvature of said windscreen.
- the present wiper blade can be used on almost every type of windscreen.
- said wiper blade and/or said strips is/are made of a superelastic material.
- a constant force is applied on said windscreen along the entire length of said wiper blade, that is from one outer end to the other outer end of the wiper blade.
- the superelastic material comprises nickel and titanium.
- the superelastic material further comprises at least one third element selected from the group consisting of niobium, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten and gold.
- said superelastic material may (also) comprise copper (or an alloy thereof) and/or iron (or an alloy thereof) .
- the stress/strain curve of the superelastic material exhibits a loading plateau, wherein an increase in strain over a range of strain varying between 0,1 and 8%, preferably between 0,1 and 5%, is accompanied by an at least substantially constant stress at the location of said loading plateau.
- the invention also refers to a method for manufacturing a windscreen wiper device provided with an elastic elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes opposing longitudinal grooves on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves spaced-apart longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed, which windscreen wiper device further comprises a connecting device for an oscillating arm, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to said connecting device about a pivot axis near one end, characterized in that said wiper blade and/or said strips comprise (s) a superelastic material such that said wiper blade has a pre-shape with a specific curvature and is deformed when placed in abutment with the windscreen to be wiped, wherein an at least substantially constant force is applied on said windscreen by outer ends of said wiper blade, independent of the curvature of said windscreen.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective, schematic view of a preferred embodiment of a windscreen wiper device according to he invention
- Figure 2 is a detail of a windscreen wiper device of figure 1
- Figure 3 is the stress/strain curve of the superelastic material of the wiper blade used in the windscreen wiper device of figure 1.
- FIG. 1 shows a preferred variant of a windscreen wiper device 1 according to the invention.
- Said windscreen wiper device is built up of a wiper blade 2, as well as of a connecting device 3 of plastic material for an oscillating arm 4.
- the oscillating arm 4 comprises a arm member 5 pivotally connected to a mounting head 6 fixed for rotation to a shaft 7 driven by a small motor (not shown) .
- the shaft 7 rotates alternately in a clockwise and in a counter ⁇ clockwise sense carrying the mounting head 6 into rotation also, which in turn draws the oscillating arm 4 into rotation and by means of the connecting device 3 moves the wiper blade 2.
- a spring (not shown) is hooked with its first end on the mounting head 6 and with its second end on the arm member 5 in order to ensure that the oscillating arm 4 and thus the wiper blade 2 connected thereto is pressed onto a windscreen to be wiped.
- a spoiler 8 extending along the entire length of the wiper blade 2 is detachably connected thereto.
- Said windscreen wiper device is built up of said elastomeric wiper blade 2, in the longitudinal sides of which opposing longitudinal grooves 9 are formed, and of longitudinal strips 10 made of an superelastic material comprising nickel and titanium, which are fitted in said longitudinal grooves 9.
- Said strips 10 form a superelastic carrier element for the rubber wiper blade 2, as it were, which is thus biased in a curved position (the curvature in operative position being that of a windscreen to be wiped) .
- Neighbouring ends 11 of strips 10 are interconnected on either side of the windscreen wiper device 1 by means of connecting pieces 12 functioning as clamping members.
- the connecting pieces 12 are separate constructional elements, which may be form-locked ("positive locking” or “having positive fit") as well as force-locked to the ends 11 of strips 10.
- said connecting pieces 12 are in one piece with the strips 10. In the latter case said connecting pieces form transverse bridges for the strips 10, as it were.
- said material has a stress/strain curve showing how stress varies with strain during deformation of the wiper blade 2.
- the curve exhibits a loading plateau 13.
- an increase in strain over a range of strain varying between 0,1% and 5% corresponds with a constant stress. That means that the wiper blade 2 is able to follow any curvature of a windscreen to be wiped, while the oscillating arm 4 exerts a constant pressure measured along the entire length of the wiper blade on the windscreen to be wiped.
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Priority Applications (4)
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MX2007002025A MX2007002025A (en) | 2004-08-20 | 2005-08-22 | Windscreen wiper device. |
CA002575412A CA2575412A1 (en) | 2004-08-20 | 2005-08-22 | Windscreen wiper device |
JP2007526470A JP2008510643A (en) | 2004-08-20 | 2005-08-22 | Windshield wiper device |
US11/573,986 US20090025175A1 (en) | 2004-08-20 | 2005-08-22 | Windscreen wiper device |
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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EP04104008A EP1627786B1 (en) | 2004-08-20 | 2004-08-20 | Windscreen wiper device |
EP04104008.0 | 2004-08-20 |
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PCT/EP2005/054118 WO2006018453A1 (en) | 2004-08-20 | 2005-08-22 | Windscreen wiper device |
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US (1) | US20090025175A1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1627786B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JP2008510643A (en) |
KR (1) | KR20070048192A (en) |
CA (1) | CA2575412A1 (en) |
DE (1) | DE602004009064T2 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2293165T3 (en) |
MX (1) | MX2007002025A (en) |
WO (1) | WO2006018453A1 (en) |
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EP2055540A1 (en) | 2007-10-30 | 2009-05-06 | Valeo Systemes D'essuyage | Wiping device for the glazed surface of an automobile |
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DE10015294A1 (en) * | 2000-03-28 | 2001-10-11 | Daimler Chrysler Ag | Collision absorbing device for motor vehicle, comprises reversibly deformable tubular liner with connection parts and superelastic sleeve |
US20040025280A1 (en) * | 2001-03-21 | 2004-02-12 | Otto Krickau | Wiper blade for cleaning glass panes, especially of motor vehicles, and method for the production of said wiper blade |
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ES2293165T3 (en) | 2008-03-16 |
KR20070048192A (en) | 2007-05-08 |
DE602004009064D1 (en) | 2007-10-31 |
JP2008510643A (en) | 2008-04-10 |
MX2007002025A (en) | 2007-04-26 |
CA2575412A1 (en) | 2006-02-23 |
EP1627786B1 (en) | 2007-09-19 |
DE602004009064T2 (en) | 2008-06-26 |
EP1627786A1 (en) | 2006-02-22 |
US20090025175A1 (en) | 2009-01-29 |
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