Patents by Inventor Jan Vanroy

Jan Vanroy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6311363
    Abstract: A wiper blade for cleaning windows of motor vehicles has a support bracket system having retaining claws disposed on claw brackets. The retaining claws grip a head strip of a wiper strip of an elastic material which is fixed longitudinally with a securing body shaped from sheet metal. The securing body is solidly joined to the wiper strip and engages the retaining claw from behind at least with a hook in the form of a snap connection disposed on one wiper arm. The hook is shaped by bending or swaging of the arm and is adjoined in the assembly direction by a guide face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kessler, Juergen Mayer, Jan Vanroy, Koen Lammens
  • Patent number: 6058555
    Abstract: A wiper blade is proposed, which is used to clean windows of motor vehicles. The wiper blade has load bearing frame for a wiper strip placed against the window and displaceable over the window crosswise to the longitudinal extent thereof, and a wind deflector strip disposed on the load bearing frame and extending approximately parallel to the wiper strip, which wind deflector strip has a wind baffle facing into the relative wind, one longitudinal edge of which is located nearer the window than its other longitudinal edge located behind the first longitudinal edge in terms of the approach direction of the relative wind. Universal use of the wiper blade is obtained if the wind deflector strip can be mounted suspended from the load bearing frame or standing upright on the load bearing frame, and in each of the two mounting positions has a wind baffle oriented toward the relative wind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Juergen Westermann, Hubert Verelst, Ann Schoeters, Jan Vanroy
  • Patent number: 5493750
    Abstract: A wiper blade serves to wipe motor vehicle windows. The wiper blade has an elongated wiping strip contacting the window and a holder which grasps the longitudinal sides of the wiping strip by at least two claws arranged at clip-like frame parts and a securing member which is fixed in the vicinity of one end of the wiping strip crosses the claws with two arms extending roughly parallel to one another and engages behind the claws by securing means. A worn wiping strip may be removed and replaced in a simple manner in that the securing member has a base part which is U-shaped in cross section and can be slipped onto the end of the wiping strip so as to fit thereon accompanied by clamping, in that at least the arms of the securing member are made of a flexible plastic, and in that securing means having locking or catching means are provided at the free end portion of one arm, complementary locking means of the other arm being associated with the securing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Lode Bollen, Walter Wagner, Dirk Nys, Jan Vanroy