Abstract: The invention refers to a wiper arm with a fixing part made from asheet metal, comprising a bore for the non-rotatable fixation on a wiper shaft and which is provided at least around the bore with an upper sheet metal section and a bottom sheet metal section being integrally connected and lying approximately in parallel to said upper sheet metal section. In order to provide the fixing part in the area of the bore with a high stability of form, a sheet metal section is supported against the flat side of the other sheet metal section around the bore at a distance from the outline of the fixing part which can be noticed when looked at in direction of the axis of the bore.

Abstract: An electric motor used especially for driving windshield wipers of motor vehicles which includes a gear pot and a metal cover with an outside and an inside and a plastic component which is injection-molded substantially at the outside of the cover and into which at least one conductive strip punched out from a metal blank and positioned substantially at the outside is embedded. In order to achieve an exact position of the conductive strip, the conductive strip is supported by a holding device from the inside of the cover through an aperture in the cover during the injection molding process. The plastic component includes at least one recess within the aperture in the cover which is open towards the inside of the cover and extends up to the conductive strip, unless the recess is filled with material afterwards.

Abstract: The description relates to a windshield wiper system of a motor vehicle including a wider arm with an articulated member and wiper rod. The articulated member and the wiper rod have a curvature along their length substantially parallel to the windshield surface adjacent a lower edge of the windshield and a rear edge of the hood, resulting in a minimized overall height and providing for a minimized gap between the rear edge of the hood and the windshield surface adjacent the lower edge.

Abstract: A windshield washing system, especially for motor vehicles, is provided with a wiper shaft, on which a wiper arm can be non-rotatably fastened and which wiper shaft includes an axial bore in order to receive a line made from form-stable plastic material with at least one channel, through which at least one washing nozzle moving in pendular motion with the wiper arm during the wiping process can be provided with washing liquid. In order to ensure that the wiper shaft takes along the line, the line is form-fittingly connected with the wiper shaft in the swivelling direction of said wiper shaft at the end of the wiper shaft turned away from the wiper arm.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromotive actuator with a housing for a central door locking system of a motor vehicle having a first slide adjustable by a first electric motor between two end positions. The first slide can be connected with a door lock of the motor vehicle independently of the end position and is preferably decoupled from the electric motor in the end positions, so that the first slide is manually adjustable between its end positions. Such an electromotive actuator is provided with a theft protection capability in the sense that, after a windshield of a motor vehicle is smashed in, an unlocking of the door by the inside locking handle is no more possible because the parts of the actuator are not actuated by operating the inside locking handle. Finally, an unlocking operation initiated from the outside is possible when the theft protection is put into operation.

Abstract: A windshield cleaning system with a spraying device is described, in which windshield cleaning system a jet element made of an elastic material is carried in an adjustable jet body formed in the shape of a ball. The jet element is formed with elastic lids forming a spraying mouth which is normally closed and which is located outside of the jet body. The spraying mouth is opened by the pressure of the washing liquid. With such an arrangement the direction of the spraying jet can be adjusted and the washing liquid is prevented from freezing due to the fact that the spraying mouth can be closed.

Abstract: A wiper arm with a wiper rod, at the one end of which a wiper blade is fixed.The wiper rod is provided with a coating, onto which coating a hose channel is formed. Furthermore, it is possible to fix additional hose supports onto the wiper rod or onto the joint.

Abstract: A bearing having to be assembled onto a shaft with a worm by passing over the worm where the diameter of the bearing section is larger than the outside diameter of the worm can be produced in a manner which saves material if not only the worm, but also the bearing section is non-cuttingly formed by rolling the basic material. It is possible to grind the bearing section at the outside, if necessary, and in an advantageous way, so that it is true to size and cylindrical.

Abstract: An electric switch unit, in particular for the control of air conditioning units in automotive vehicles. The switch unit includes pushbuttons whose symbols are illuminated by light which is guided from a central source of light through a light-guiding member. The light-guiding member is composed of interconnected light-guiding bars to which projections are molded. From the projections the light exits toward the pushbuttons. The front faces of the projections are concavely curved, and as a result a uniform illumination of the symbol areas is provided. The light-guiding bars are furnished with totally reflecting surfaces, and as a result the total quantity of light incident upon them is reflected into the projections. The quantities of light exiting from each projection are equal. Due to the arrangement of a focusing lens at the transition of the light from the source of light to the light-guiding bars, a parallel beam of light is emitted into the latter.

Abstract: In order to be able to completely eliminate the axial play of an armature spindle of an electric motor, especially for a windshield wiping system of a motor vehicle, even though conditions change over time, a prestressing member acted upon by a spring leg continuously presses against the end of the armature spindle. The prestressing member does not necessarily have to abut directly on the end of the armature spindle, but rather a cap is inserted onto the end of the armature spindle and non-rotatably fixed to the motor housing or a gear housing. An eccentric formed as the housing of the prestressing member abuts on the outside of the bottom of the cap. In an alternative embodiment, a mushroom shaped prestressing member having a mushroom head presses against the end of the armature spindle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper and washing system including a tube with two separate channels, a nozzle head with at least two washing nozzles, one of which is connected to the one channel and the other of which is connected to the other channel of the tube, and a connecting piece from which the tube starts off. In order to avoid wrong assemblies, coding the connections between the tube and the nozzle head as well as between the tube and the connecting piece are provided on the tube on the one hand, and on the nozzle head or on the connecting piece on the other hand.

Abstract: An electric switch unit for automotive vehicles providing strain-relieving means for exiting cables, particularly flat cables, which control the exit of the cable to a present exit angle.

Abstract: In order to connect a pump (1) with an electric motor (2) quickly and form-fittingly, a hollow, tappet-shaped stud (6) is formed onto the pot-shaped motor housing (7), specifically onto the bottom of the pot (10). The stud engages an insertion recess (5) of the pump. A driving eccentric (4) of the driven shaft (3) is connected with the pump during the assembly of the pump. If the inside of the tappet-shaped stud (6) is to receive the first motor bearing, a fit is needed at the inside as well as at the outside of the stud. If the motor housing (7) is made from deep drawn sheet metal, the double fit is only possible, if, when viewed in the circumferential direction, the cross section of the wall of the stud (6) is formed like a wave. This facilitates the use of a plastic cover (18) in connection with the sheet metal housing (7) and the avoidance of a carbon brush support plate.

Abstract: A switch lever of a steering column switch for motor vehicles has an electric switch arranged at the free end of the switch lever and includes at least one switch component and a housing, which is inserted as a functional switch unit with its housing in a holder in the free end of the switch lever. In the free end of the switch lever there are first electric connection contacts with which corresponding second electric connection contacts on the switch unit can be put into operational connection on the insertion of said switch unit. This provides a switch lever, the assembly of which to the switch unit is simplified and which at the same time ensures reliable operation.

Abstract: An electric motor used especially for driving windshield wipers of motor vehicles which includes a gear pot and a metal cover with an outside and an inside and a plastic component which is injection-molded substantially at the outside of the cover and into which at least one conductive strip punched out from a metal blank and positioned substantially at the outside is embedded. In order to achieve an exact position of the conductive strip, the conductive strip is supported by a holding device from the inside of the cover through an aperture in the cover during the injection molding process. The plastic component includes at least one recess within the aperture in the cover which is open towards the inside of the cover and extends up to the conductive strip, unless the recess is filled with material afterwards.

Abstract: Steering column switches for motor vehicles having a switch housing and an operating lever are known, which operating lever is swivellably mounted about an axis in the switch housing and which comprises a control grip rotatable about an axis of rotation extending in the longitudinal direction of the operating lever and which control grip is movable between at least two operating positions, and a switching rod at least substantially aligned in the longitudinal direction of the operating lever and substantially rotatable about the longitudinal axis via the control grip and via which switching rod at least one electric contact accommodated in the switch housing is movable. In most cases the motorcar manufacturers desire particular angles of rotation between the individual operating positions of the control grip. These angles of rotation are not always favorable for operating the electric contact.

Abstract: A wiper blade for a windshield wiper system of a motor vehicle is described, in which wiper blade a pivot pin, that is cylindrical all along its length, is non-rotatably fixed onto a secondary yoke and engages into bearing bushes by way of its ends, which bearing bushes are non-rotatably fixed into the side walls of a primary yoke. This articulated connection is advantageous with respect to corrosional behaviour and thus with respect to the lifetime in comparison to known articulated connections with an articulated rivet that is non-rotatably connected with the primary yoke.

Abstract: A method and a device for mounting a wiper system on a motor vehicle includes individual structural members of the wiper system fitted in places on the motor vehicle body which are remote from each other. Thereby the individual structural members (19) are at first secured to a device serving as a transportation support (30) in proper position to the fastening points (26) on the motor vehicle body (25) and the premounted unit of wiper system and transportation support (30) is then put on the vehicle body (25) in proper mounting condition and thereafter the connection between the structural members (19) of the wiper system and the transportation support (30) is released again.

Abstract: A wiper blade for a windshield wiper system of motor vehicles is described, in which wiper blade a reinforcing rail is secured against longitudinal movement in its central area on the wiper lip. The securement is performed by a cam pressed from the blade and received in a recess of the reinforcing rail. The relative movement between the reinforcing rail and the rubber wiper strip, which cannot be prevented when bent windshields are being wiped, is thereby evenly distributed over the two ends of the wiper strip. This improves the wiping effect of the wiper blade in comparison to known models, where the reinforcing rail is coupled to one end of the wiper strip.

Abstract: A drive device for wipers of motor vehicles includes a shaft extending a front face of a bearing housing and with a cylindrical slide bearing which is inserted into the bearing housing at little distance from the front face of said bearing housing, and with a ring groove limited by the slide bearing, the bearing housing and the shaft. A bush firmly fixed to the bearing housing and made of elastic material closes the ring groove in front of the slide bearing and at its end turned off from the bearing housing comprises a sealing flange radially projecting towards the inside, which sealing flange engages into a ring groove of the shaft.