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US 10,960,851 · App. 16/095,470 · Granted Mar 30, 2021

Wiping lip cleaning device

Inventor: Manfred Prinz (Vogt, DE)
B60S1/0483A47L1/15
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Patent No.
US 10,960,851
App. No.
16/095,470
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device for cleaning wiper lips on windshield wiper cleaning blades of windshield cleaning systems. In order to enable in a simple and cost-effective manner cleaning wiper lips on windshield wiper cleaning blades of windshield cleaning systems, the device provides for a two-sided, moisture-impermeable base carrier having a cross-section which is substantially N-shaped, double V-shaped or double U-shaped over a base carrier length and which forms a first and a second surrounding region in the base carrier whose surrounding region openings are orientated counter to each other. The base carrier has a first side with, at least in a portion in the region of the first surrounding region, a first surface layer of a first material and a second side with, at least in a portion in the region of the second surrounding region, a second surface layer of a second material.

Claims (23)

1. A device for cleaning a wiper lip of a wiper blade of a windshield cleaning system, the device comprising:

a two-sided, moisture-impermeable base carrier having a first side, a second side and a base carrier length;

said base carrier having a cross-section that is substantially N-shaped, double V-shaped or double U-shaped over said base carrier length and that defines a first embracing region and a second embracing region in said base carrier whose respective embracing region openings are orientated counter to each other;

said first side of said base carrier having, at least in a portion in the region of said first embracing region, a first surface layer of a first material, and said second side having, at least in a portion in the region of said second embracing region, a second surface layer of a second material;

said first material being moistened with a first fluid and said second material being moistened with a second fluid; and

said first fluid being a cleaning agent for a material of the wiper lip and said second fluid being a care product for the material of the wiper lip.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said first side of said base carrier has said first surface layer only in one portion of said first embracing region and/or said second side of said base carrier has said second surface layer only in one portion of said second embracing region.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said first material is impregnated with the first fluid and said second material is impregnated with the second fluid.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said base carrier is formed of plastics material.

5. The device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of said first surface layer or said second surface layer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of a cellulose material, a non-woven material, a gauze material and a sponge material.

6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said embracing regions of said base carrier are delimited by member faces having substantially the same dimensions.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of said first surface layer or said second surface layer is releasably disposed on said base carrier.

8. The device according to claim 7 , which comprises self-adhesive hook and loop pads releasably mounting at least one of said first surface layer or said second surface layer on said base carrier.

9. The device according to claim 7 , wherein said releasable first and/or second surface layer is one or more strip-shaped elements having a length overhanging said base carrier length at least at a longitudinal side end of said base carrier by a predeterminable overhang.

10. The device according to claim 9 , wherein said strip-shaped element is fluid-free at least in a region of said overhang.

11. The device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of said first surface layer or said second surface layer is disposed in a materially integral manner on said base carrier.

12. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said base carrier is resiliently deformable and wherein, upon a resilient deformation of said base carrier, a shape and/or a dimension of said embracing regions or said embracing region openings are changed.

13. The device according to claim 12 , wherein a deformability of said base carrier is defined by a sizing of a profile thickness of said base carrier.

14. The device according to claim 12 , wherein a deformability of said base carrier is defined by a sizing of a profile thickness of an embracing region base of said base carrier.

15. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said base member is an elongate thin member.

16. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said care product includes a wax.

17. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said care product includes a polymer.

18. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said care product includes a soap, a wax, and a polymer.

Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2016 107 546.9 · Apr 22, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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