Patents by Inventor Vincent Izabel

Vincent Izabel 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).

  • Publication number: 20150375715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for dispensing a windshield-cleaning liquid for windshield wiper blades of a motor vehicle, comprising: a hydraulic pipe (7, 8) having at least one liquid flow channel (7a, 7b, 8a, 8b); at least one hydraulic coupling (9, 10, 11, 15) for transporting of liquid to said pipe or discharging the liquid from said pipe, characterized in that the dispensing device also comprises at least one non-return valve (20) received in the flow channel (7a, 7b, 8a, 8b) or in a hydraulic coupling (9, 10, 11, 15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Vincent Izabel, Gérald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20150375718
    Abstract: A system for distributing washer fluid (1) for motor vehicle windscreen wipers (3, 5) including at least one fluid circulation pipe (19, 21), at least one heating element (25, 27) extending along said pipe, at least one hydraulic connection (9, 11) connected hydraulically to said pipe, characterized in that it includes a heat-conducting adapter (55, 57) in contact with said heating element (25, 27) and arranged at a suitable distance to transmit at least some of the heat from said adapter to said hydraulic connection (9, 11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel, Gérald Caillot
  • Patent number: 9211868
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic connector for a wiper system, said wiper system also comprising an arm intended to move a blade over the surface to be wiped, a blade (3) and a mechanical connector (10) fixed to said blade in order to attach it to the arm and able to be attached to the arm in a longitudinal movement with respect to said arm, said hydraulic connector (30) having at least one line (31, 32) for supplying a liquid to the blade (3) via the mechanical connector (10). Said hydraulic connector is characterized in that it comprises at least one protuberance (35) able to bear against un element (2a, 2b) of said wiper system in order to align the hydraulic connector (30) on the mechanical connector (10) during said longitudinal movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Xavier Bousset, Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel
  • Publication number: 20150239435
    Abstract: A heating device includes an element forming a spline adapted to be mounted inside a longitudinal housing of a support element to form a spline, the housing being open upwardly via a longitudinal slot. A heating element is disposed on the element forming a spline and connected by electrically conductive means to an electrical connect disposed on an upper face of the spline. The heating element is disposed on a lower face of the element forming a spline and the electrically conductive means pass from the lower face to the upper face of the spline around one of the ends thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20150239434
    Abstract: A heating windscreen wiper includes a support element for a wiper blade, at least one spine-forming elongate element, and at least one heating element positioned on a face of the spine-forming elongate element. The windscreen wiper also includes a spacing means arranged to avoid physical contact between the heating element and the support element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20150175134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade assembly for the windows of a motor vehicle, comprising a longitudinal support (10) intended to receive a pressure application vertebra (20) and a wiper blade (30) and a wiper accessory (40) carrying a device (42a, 42b) for distributing and projecting a washer liquid wherein the accessory is intended to be assembled with the longitudinal support (10). According to the invention, the longitudinal support (10) comprises means for fixing said accessory (40) on said support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel
  • Publication number: 20150175135
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade assembly for the windows of a motor vehicle, comprising a longitudinal support (10) intended to receive a pressure application vertebra (20) and a wiper blade (30) and a wiper accessory (40) carrying a device (42a, 42b) for distributing and projecting a washer liquid wherein the accessory is intended to be assembled with the longitudinal support (10). According to the invention, the longitudinal support (10) comprises means for fixing said accessory (40) on said support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel
  • Publication number: 20150175131
    Abstract: Electrical, hydraulic and mechanical connectors for a windscreen wiper of a vehicle are disclosed. The electrical connector includes a body bearing electrical plugs and detachable fixing means which are configured to cooperate with the mechanical connector. The hydraulic connector does not comprise such means and is fixed to the mechanical connector solely by the interlocking of its small tubes in the mechanical connector. The mechanical connector comprises two substantially parallel tabs having at their free ends notches for the fixing means of the electrical connector to be resiliently clipped thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Guillaume Barret, Xavier Bousset, Denis Thebault
  • Publication number: 20150175133
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade assembly for the windows of a motor vehicle, comprising a longitudinal support (10) intended to receive a pressure application vertebra (20) and a wiper blade (30) and a wiper accessory (40) carrying a device (42a, 42b) for distributing and projecting a washer liquid wherein the accessory is intended to be assembled with the longitudinal support (10). According to the invention, the longitudinal support (10) comprises means for fixing said accessory (40) on said support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel
  • Publication number: 20150175130
    Abstract: An electrical connection device for a heating device of a wiper blade member of a motor vehicle wiper system is disclosed. The connection device connects, when the blade member is assembled on an arm head of the wiper system, an electrical power source from the arm head of the wiper system to the heating device. The connection device includes a body configured to be fitted to a mechanical connector of the blade member, and an electrical connection element which allows an electrical connection to be established between the connection device and the heating device through the body. The body is capable of being positioned in the mechanical connector in a direction substantially parallel with the blade member, when the electrical connection device is mounted on the blade member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Philippe Carraro
  • Publication number: 20150166019
    Abstract: A heating conductive wire-like element is disclosed, having a heating conductive strand arranged in a helix around a central fibre, of which the pitch between strands in at least a first zone of the wire-like element is of a first value for producing a first linear heating power, and of which the pitch between strands in at least one second zone of the wire-like element is of a second value smaller than the first value in order to produce a second linear heating power higher than the first linear heating power. A washer fluid heating and carrying pipe including at least one fluid circulation canal situated near a heating conductive wire made from the aforementioned wire-like element is also disclosed. A wiper device for a glazed surface of a vehicle incorporating at least one such pipe, and a method of manufacturing a pipe is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel
  • Publication number: 20150136750
    Abstract: A windscreen wiper heating element for motor vehicle is disclosed. The heating element includes a circuit having a heating electrical conductor and a support of that circuit. The circuit includes a first loop, the ends of which are connected to electrical power supply terminals, and at least one second loop, the ends of which are connected to said terminals and the length and/or the section of the conductor of this loop is different from that or those of the conductor of the first loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20150139631
    Abstract: A hydraulic interface configured to be installed between a windscreen washer liquid feed tube and a connector of a device for wiping a window of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The interface includes a body that defines at least one passage channel for the windscreen washer liquid, and at least one electric heating conductor that is disposed so as to heat said windscreen washer liquid, said body being configured to secure said conductor to said body by fitting together different parts of said body and/or by fitting to shapes made in one piece with said body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20150135462
    Abstract: A vehicle window wiper system including at least one windscreen wiper driven in movement by an arm that is articulated to the wiper by at least one connector/adapter assembly, is disclosed. The wiper system is provided with a heating device. The heating system includes at least one heating indicator indicating that at least one element of said wiper system is at a temperature higher than a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20150089762
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic connector, particularly for a motor vehicle windscreen wiper system. The connector is designed to be mounted on a wiper blade fitted with a perforated pipe carrying cleaning and de-icing fluid, and comprises at least one inlet coupling suitable for connection to a fluid feed, and at least one distributor provided with at least one outlet coupling designed to be connected to the perforated pipe. The connector also includes at least one internal path for carrying the fluid from the inlet coupling to the distributor. Thus, by means of the presence of the internal path through the connector, the inlet coupling can be positioned at various locations on the connector, without feeding directly into the distributor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel
  • Publication number: 20150026908
    Abstract: Assembly for the production of a wiping system, comprising a terminal part (2) of a wiper arm designed to move a wiper blade (3) over the surface to be wiped and a hydraulic connector (30) comprising at least one piping element (31, 32) for conveying a liquid to the wiper blade (3), the said terminal part comprising at least one means (8) for supporting the said hydraulic connector ensuring that it is held longitudinally with reference to the wiper arm. It is characterized in that the said supporting means allows a movement of the said hydraulic connector (30) in a direction convergent with the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Systemes D'Essuyage
    Inventors: Vincent Izabel, Xavier Bousset, Guiseppe Grasso, Gérald Caillot, Holger Fitterer, Uwe Renz, Andreas Zygan, Heiko Schmid, Richard Düsterhöft, Steffen Pommerening
  • Publication number: 20150013092
    Abstract: The heating device is suitable for assembly with an element (3) supporting a wiper blade and comprises an element of longitudinal main axis (4) suitable for mounting inside a housing (5) of the support element (3) so as to form a spine. A heating element (13) is positioned on a bottom face of the spine-forming element (4). The spine-forming element (4) comprises at least one bushing (20) for the passage of electrical conduction means (19) in order to provide an electrical power supply for the heating element (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Jean-Michel Jarasson, Vincent Izabel, Chantal Marquet
  • Publication number: 20140373297
    Abstract: Heating device (20) that is able to be mounted on a support frame of a windscreen wiper, the heating device (20) having a vertebra (24) that is able to be mounted longitudinally inside the housing in the support frame; at least one heating element (25) disposed on the vertebra (24); an electrical connector (26) comprising an electrical connection device; characterized in that the heating device (20) comprises an electrically conductive protruding element (28) in electrical contact with the heating element (25), and in that the heating device (20) is able to prevent the electrical connection device (27) from coming into contact with the heating element (25) before the vertebra (24) is in its final mounted position; and to bring the electrical connection device (27) and the protruding element (28) into contact when the vertebra (24) is in its final mounted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20140352095
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component (10) for a system (9) for supplying and/or distributing a liquid for a wiping apparatus for a motor vehicle, including a space, defined by a wall, in which the liquid can be accommodated, characterized in that the wall is made of a plastic heat-conducting material. The invention can be used for motor vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Gérald Caillot, Vincent Izabel, Jean-Michel Jarasson
  • Publication number: 20140331438
    Abstract: The invention concerns an assembly for producing a vehicle windscreen wiping system (10), including an end fitting (14) of a wiper arm (12) adapted to move a wiper (16), a connection interface (50), and an intermediate part (40) called clamp, said assembly being adapted to occupy a working position in which said interface (50) is free relative to said end fitting (14) and a so-called service position in which said interface (50) is retained in an oriented manner inside said end fitting (14) by said clamp (40). The invention also relates to a connection device for a vehicle windscreen wiping system (10) comprising such an assembly as well as a vehicle windscreen wiping system (10) comprising a wiper (16), a wiper arm (12) and such a connection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventor: Vincent Izabel