Adapter for connecting a windshield wiper to a drive arm of a wiper system for a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11845404-B2
Application number	US-201917299493-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2019
Priority date	Dec 4, 2018
Publication date	Dec 19, 2023
Grant date	Dec 19, 2023

Abstract

The invention relates to an adapter intended to connect a wiper blade ( 7 ) to a drive arm ( 5 ) of a wiper system ( 800 ) for a vehicle, the adapter (IO 0 ) comprising a head (I) and a body ( 2 ), the adapter (IO 0 ) being formed by an upper wall (IO, 20 ) and two lateral flanks (I la, I lb, 2 la, 2 lb ), the adapter (IO 0 ) comprising a centring means ( 3 ) for centring in a vertical direction (Oz) perpendicular to the upper wall (IO, 20 ), characterised in that the centring means ( 3 ) is extended longitudinally by a guide member ( 9 ) configured to be engaged with the drive arm ( 5 ), the adapter (IO 0 ) comprising a tab ( 4 ) configured to wedge the adapter (IO 0 ) in the vertical direction (Oz). The invention is applicable to motor vehicles.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wiper system comprising:
an adapter configured to connect a windshield wiper to a drive arm of the wiper system for a vehicle, the adapter comprising:
a head and a body which extend in a continuation of one another in a longitudinal direction of the adapter,
a tongue configured to wedge the adapter in a vertical direction (Oz),
the adapter being formed at least by an upper wall and at least by two lateral flanks extending from the upper wall;

at least one centering means configured to center it with respect to the drive arm in a vertical direction perpendicular to the upper wall, wherein the centering means is continued longitudinally along the body by a guide member configured to be engaged with the drive arm;
the windshield wiper; and
the drive arm;
wherein the centering means is disposed in an aperture arranged in a lateral wall of a yoke of the drive arm, and the aperture is parallel to an upper wall of the yoke,
wherein the adapter cooperates with the yoke of the drive arm, wherein the tongue extending into the aperture to wedge the adapter in the vertical direction with respect to the yoke.

2. The wiper system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tongue is formed integrally with the body and/or with the guide member.

3. The wiper system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the guide member is carried by a lateral flank of the body of the adapter.

4. The wiper system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the centering means and the guide member are disposed beyond a shoulder formed at a boundary between the head and the body.

5. The wiper system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the centering means is a half-disk, the center of which passes through a plane containing the shoulder.

6. The wiper system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tongue is carried by a lateral flank of the body of the adapter.

7. The wiper system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the guide member comprises an upper edge face and a lower edge face on an opposite side from the upper edge face, the upper edge face being disposed between the upper wall of the adapter and the lower edge face, the tongue extending between the upper wall of the adapter and the upper edge face.

8. The wiper system as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the lower edge face of the guide member is continued by an insertion chamfer that forms an angle (a) of between 20° and 60° with the lower edge face.

9. The wiper system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the guide member comprises a first longitudinal end joined to the centering means and a free second longitudinal end at an opposite end from the first longitudinal end, the tongue converging toward the second longitudinal end.

10. The wiper system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tongue is able to deform plastically.

11. The wiper system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a connector that is able to be secured to the windshield wiper, wherein the adapter and the connector are connected by a means for rotational connection.

12. An adapter configured to connect a windshield wiper to a drive arm of a wiper system for a vehicle, the adapter comprising:
a head and a body which extend in the continuation of one another in a longitudinal direction of the adapter,
the adapter being formed at least by an upper wall and at least by two lateral flanks extending from the upper wall;
at least one centering means configured to center it with respect to the drive arm in a vertical direction perpendicular to the upper wall, wherein the centering means is continued longitudinally along the body by a guide member configured to be engaged with the drive arm; and
a tongue configured to wedge the adapter in the vertical direction (Oz),
wherein the guide member comprises an upper edge face and a lower edge face on an opposite side from the upper edge face, the upper edge face being disposed between the upper wall of the adapter and the lower edge face, the tongue extending between the upper wall of the adapter and the upper edge face.

13. An adapter configured to connect a windshield wiper to a drive arm of a wiper system for a vehicle, the adapter comprising:
a head and a body which extend in the continuation of one another in a longitudinal direction of the adapter,
the adapter being formed at least by an upper wall and at least by two lateral flanks extending from the upper wall;
at least one centering means configured to center it with respect to the drive arm in a vertical direction perpendicular to the upper wall, wherein the centering means is continued longitudinally along the body by a guide member configured to be engaged with the drive arm; and
a tongue configured to wedge the adapter in the vertical direction (Oz),
wherein the guide member comprises a first longitudinal end joined to the centering means and a free second longitudinal end at an opposite end from the first longitudinal end, the tongue converging toward the second longitudinal end.

14. A wiper system comprising:
an adapter configured to connect a windshield wiper to a drive arm of the wiper system for a vehicle, the adapter comprising:
a head and a body which extend in a continuation of one another in a longitudinal direction of the adapter,
a tongue configured to wedge the adapter in the vertical direction (Oz),
the adapter being formed at least by an upper wall and at least by two lateral flanks extending from the upper wall;

at least one centering means configured to center it with respect to the drive arm in a vertical direction perpendicular to the upper wall, wherein the centering means is continued longitudinally along the body by a guide member configured to be engaged with the drive arm; and
wherein the centering means is disposed in an aperture arranged in a lateral wall of a yoke, and the aperture is parallel to an upper wall of the yoke, and
wherein the guide member comprises an upper edge face and a lower edge face on an opposite side from the upper edge face, the upper edge face being disposed between the upper wall of the adapter and the lower edge face, the tongue extending between the upper wall of the adapter and the upper edge face.

Assignees

• Valeo Systemes Dessuyage

Inventors

• Gaucher Vincent
• Jomard Olivier
• HOUSSAT Stéphane
• Mouleyre Guillaume

Classifications

• B60S1/4048 Primary

  the element being provided with retention means co-operating with the channel-shaped end of the arm · CPC title

• B60S1/3429

  Arm pieces · CPC title

• B60S1/4038

  for arms provided with a channel-shaped end · CPC title

• B60S1/4045

  comprising a detachable intermediate element mounted on the channel-shaped end · CPC title

• B60S1/4064

  the channel-shaped end being provided with protrusions on, or holes in, the side walls to create a pivot · CPC title