Patents Examined by Gary Graham
  • Patent number: 8806699
    Abstract: A roof-light window wiper device includes a wiper motor having an output shaft; a wiper link coupled to the output shaft, and having an extension extending in a direction crossing the output shaft of the wiper motor, and a drive shaft extending in a direction crossing the extension, and a wiper connected to the drive shaft. The drive shaft and the output shaft extend at the side of the wiper motor relative to the wiper link. The wiper is connected to the drive shaft at the side of the wiper motor relative to the wiper link. Thus, there can be provided a roof-light window wiper device that can have the pressure of the wiper against the surface of a roof-light window increased by decreasing the depression angle of the wiper, and a cab and a construction machine including the roof-light window wiper device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Gaku Ohnishi, Toshimasa Kanda, Kentarou Watanabe, Atsushi Karami
  • Patent number: 8800095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wiper apparatus in which it is easy to replace a wiper blade without this leading to any erroneous operation. When a wiper operation has been stopped by a wiper driving apparatus 31, the wiper driving apparatus causes the wiper arms to first move to a housing position and then stops the wiper arms. When wiper blades are to be replaced, an IG switch 33 is turned off during a wiper operation. If the IG switch 33 is turned off while the wiper arms are within a first stopping range, then the wiper arms are stopped at that position and the blades are replaced. If the wiper arms are stopped outside the first stopping range, then they are first moved to a bottom inverted position or a housing position and are then stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroji Okabe
  • Patent number: 8800096
    Abstract: A wiper blade having a lever assembly and a spoiler integrated in the lever assembly. The wiper blade has a wiper rubber and the lever assembly holding the wiper rubber and being coupled to a wiper arm. The lever assembly has a plurality of levers, adjacent levers of which are hinge-jointed to each other. The lever of the lever assembly includes a spoiler portion forming a section of a spoiler integrated in the lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: The Korea Development Bank
    Inventors: In Kyu Kim, Kyung Su Kim, Kyung Jong Nam, Sang Jin Jeong
  • Patent number: 8800098
    Abstract: In a connecting member, a base member includes an installation portion, to which a hook of a wiper arm configured into a U-shape form is adapted to be installed after installation of the base member to a wiper blade. A lock member is rotatably connected to the base member and is adapted to be engaged with an arcuate outer peripheral surface of the hook after installation of the hook to the installation portion. The lock member includes an engaging portion, which is adapted to be engaged with the arcuate outer peripheral surface of the hook to exert a resilient force against the arcuate outer peripheral surface of the hook. The resilient force of the engaging portion is exerted as a rotational force in a locking direction of the lock member against the arcuate outer peripheral surface of the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Uchiyama, Takao Yoshimoto, Naoki Torii
  • Patent number: 8800097
    Abstract: The invention relates to a windshield wiper drive (1) for a motor vehicle, in particular a windshield wiper drive (1), with a reverse-operating drive motor (3), for driving a wiper shaft (6) connected non-rotatably to a wiper arm (18), and with a fastening board (7) for attaching the windshield wiper drive (1) to a vehicle body or to a body-mounted component (29). The invention provides that a first end stop surface (22) for delimiting the rotary movement of the wiper shaft (6) in a first direction of rotation is provided on the fastening board (7) or on a component (29) affixed to the fastening board (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Wegner, Juergen Rapp, Andreas Mueller, Guillaume Boulch, Christian Acker, Pierre Harnist
  • Patent number: 8800099
    Abstract: 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 groove on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves spaced-apart longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed, wherein neighbouring ends of said longitudinal strips are interconnected by a respective connection piece, which windscreen wiper device 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, with the interposition of a joint part, wherein said joint part comprises at least one resilient tongue engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in said oscillating arm, and wherein said resilient tongue is rotatable along an hinge axis between an outward position retaining the wiper blade onto the oscillating arm and an inward position rele
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul S.A.
    Inventor: Xavier Boland
  • Patent number: 8769761
    Abstract: The invention provides an end fitting (26) for a wiper blade (10) that can be mounted on a longitudinal end (10a) of the blade (10) and that comprises means (54) for locking the end (16a) of the vertebra (16) when in its inserted position in a longitudinal housing (32), these means being designed to engage with a slot (50) made in a longitudinal edge (52) of the end (16a) of the vertebra (16), characterized in that the locking means (54) are produced symmetrically with respect to a vertical longitudinal mid-plane of the longitudinal housing (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventor: Xavier Bousset
  • Patent number: 8756748
    Abstract: A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, 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 comprises a connecting device for a oscillating arm comprising two longitudinal arm sections connected to each other by means of a curved intermediate section, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to the connecting device about a pivot axis, with the special feature that the oscillating arm is pivotally connected to the connecting device about the pivot axis, with the interposition of a joint part, wherein the joint part comprises a resilient tongue engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in the oscillating arm, and wherein the joint part and the connecting device are pivotally connected to each other by mutually cooperating protrusion/hole means, the p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul S.A.
    Inventor: Avsar Erdal
  • Patent number: 8756749
    Abstract: A windshield wiper adapter and windshield wiper assembly are disclosed. The windshield wiper adapter comprises a main body and a flexible buckling device. A front end of the main body has a notch that is downwardly recessed. The notch is used for snapping with a protrusion portion of a windshield wiper arm at an arbitrary angle. One end of the flexible buckling device is connected to a surface of the main body while another end is upwardly extended toward an upper side of the main body. The flexible buckling device is used for buckling a leaning side of a through hole of the windshield wiper arm. After the notch is coupled to the protrusion portion, the windshield wiper arm is rotated about a coupling portion therebetween, such that the flexible buckling device is propped by the leaning side of the through hole to firstly perform a deformation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Unipoint Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Chuan Chien
  • Patent number: 8745809
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a first expansion unit in which a first expansion member is received and the first expansion unit is connected to a cylinder which has a piston received therein and the piston defines a first room and a second room in the cylinder. The piston has a first magnetic member which magnetically drives a movable member with a second magnetic member connected thereto. The movable member moves along the cylinder. A cleaning unit is co-movably connected with the movable member. By expansion of the first expansion unit by the sun, the movable member is moved and the cleaning unit is moved along the glass surface. The action consumes no electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Kun Shan University
    Inventor: Song-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 8726452
    Abstract: A wiper device having improved durability includes: an arm head having one end fixed to a pivot shaft installed on a vehicle; and a retainer having one end coupled to the arm head to rotate relative to the arm head and the other end coupled to a blade for wiping a glass of the vehicle, wherein the retainer includes: a body formed of synthetic resins; and a reinforcement member that is coupled to a portion of the retainer, which is adjacent to the arm head, and is formed of a metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Dongyang Mechatonics Corp.
    Inventor: Kyoung Ho Ko
  • Patent number: 8719994
    Abstract: A connector between a windscreen wiper and a drive arm, with the wiper extending in a longitudinal direction, and the connector being capable of being installed in a free end of the arm, includes an attachment part equipped with a housing open towards a bottom and allowing removable attachment according to a vertical direction of the wiper with the connector, and elastically deformable locking means having a portion that is capable of ensuring locking in the longitudinal direction of the connector in an installed position thereof in the free end of the arm. The attachment part is designed to cooperate with an installation element other than the locking means and is permanently fixed to the wiper. The locking means comprise a tab that extends in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Thienard, Frederic Boussicot
  • Patent number: 8713746
    Abstract: A vehicle wiper system includes a wiper arm, a motor including a motor shaft, and a drive connection through which torque is transmitted from the motor shaft to the wiper arm when the motor is energized, and at least partially releasing a connection between the motor shaft and the wiper arm when the motor is deenergized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dallos, Jr., Mark K Denison
  • Patent number: 8713747
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wiper coupler that releasably attaches the superstructure to a wiper arm attachment member. The wiper coupler includes a pair of sidewalls each having a flange to engage a portion of the guides of the attachment member and further includes an elevated platform and a deck each disposed between the sidewalls. The deck and a portion of the sidewalls define a rest to receive the track of the attachment member. The wiper coupler further includes an aperture between the elevated platform and the deck. The aperture receives a portion of the bent tab of the attachment member to facilitate attachment between the superstructure and the attachment member conventionally employed for use with a beam blade-style wiper assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Trico Products Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy J. Coughlin
  • Patent number: 8707506
    Abstract: A kind of windshield wiper connecting device, disclosed by this utility model, is a combination of various parts whose joint may be applied to installation of different kinds of windshield wiper arms. The device has a base with a connector, on which mounts a functional n-shaped stop pad with a functional external cap above, so as to form an integral wiper joint that is mounted on the main body of various styles of wipers throughout a base. This utility model may connect different structures of wiper arms, greatly improving the wiper adaptation. It features easy assembly, disassembly and replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Inventor: Shengzhu Wu
  • Patent number: 8701241
    Abstract: A flat wiper blade with spoilers is provided. The flat wiper blade has a wiper strip, a single elongated frame, first and second spoilers and a connecting unit for connection to a wiper arm. The frame holds and supports the wiper strip. The first and second spoilers have a pair of longitudinally extending fitting grooves and a receiving groove in the fitting groove. The receiving groove has a width greater than that of the fitting groove. The first and second spoilers are joined to the frame as opposed to each other in such a manner that the frame is fitted to the fitting grooves and an edge of the frame is received in the receiving groove. The connecting unit is joined to the frame between the first spoiler and the second spoiler. The connecting unit engages the first spoiler and the second spoiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: The Korea Development Bank
    Inventors: In Kyu Kim, Kyung Jong Nam
  • Patent number: 8695152
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning the touch or display touch or display surface of an electronic device such as a cell phone or computer tablet comprising a wiper coupled to cleaner bar. The cleaner bar moves longitudinally and/or laterally across the electronic device with the wiper in contact with the touch or display surface. The wiper comprises both a moist pad and a dry pad. The moist pad is fluidly communicated to a reservoir defined within the cleaner bar. On its “cleaning stroke”, cleaning fluid is released into the moist pad and then deposited onto the touch or display surface. The cleaner bar moves longitudinally across the touch or display surface by manual or motorized means. The cleaner bar may also be in communication with the electronic device to detect when a task has been completed on the electronic device. After detection, the cleaner bar automatically traverses the touch or display surface, thereby cleaning it after every use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Inventor: Marc Lemchen
  • Patent number: 8689389
    Abstract: A connecting unit for a flat wiper blade is provided. The connecting unit separably connects the flat wiper blade to a wiper arm having one of the following: a first coupling element including a top plate and a pair of side plates having a concave portion at a rear end; a second coupling element including a top plate and a pair of side plates; and a third coupling element including a side pin and a clip arm. The connecting unit has a bracket fixed to a frame of the flat wiper blade and an adaptor. The adaptor is pivotally mounted on the bracket via a pivot shaft of the bracket. The adaptor has first to third fixing devices separably fixing the adaptor to the first to third coupling elements respectively. The flat wiper blade is connected to the wiper arms via the adaptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: The Korea Development Bank
    Inventors: In Kyu Kim, Kyung Jong Nam
  • Patent number: 8689390
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wiper device provided with a metal frame member (16), which includes a cylindrical receiving portion (26), and a pivot holder (18), which is fixed to the metal frame member (16) and holds a pivot shaft (12). The pivot holder (18) includes holder cylindrical portions (34, 104), which rotationally support the pivot shaft (12), vehicle body attachment legs (38, 108), which extend radially outward from the holder cylindrical parts (34, 104) and are attached to a vehicle body, and fitting portions (40B, 110B), which are securely fitted to the receiving part (26) by inserting the fitting portions (40B, 110B) in the receiving portion (26) and swaging the receiving portion (26). The pivot holder (18) is formed as an integrated component by a metal part and a plastic part (32), which is lighter than the metal part and is integrated with the metal part. At least an outer circumferential portion of the engaged parts (40B, 110B) is formed by the metal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Motono, Shingo Ohno, Shunsaku Ohta, Yoshiyuki Kuomo
  • Patent number: 8671505
    Abstract: A windshield wiper blade assembly comprises an elastic wiper blade and a linking mechanism including a pivot joint, a first arm, a second arm and a third arm secured to the wiper blade. The first, second and third arms are stacked one above another. The pivot joint has two opposite first pivot studs and two opposite second pivot studs. The first pivot studs are spaced apart from each other and protrude toward each other. The second pivot studs protrude away from each other. The pivot joint is disposed between the first and second arms. The first pivot studs extend into two side walls of the second arm, respectively, and the second pivot studs extend into the side walls of the first arm, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Dongguan Hongyi Wiper Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yuan-Chin Ku