US 11,679,741 B2
Cover for a glazed-surface wiper device
Vincent Gaucher, Le Mesnil Saint Denis (FR); Stéphane Houssat, Le Mesnil Saint Denis (FR); and Eric Poton, Le Mesnil Saint Denis (FR)
Assigned to Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage, Le Mesnil Saint Denis (FR)
Filed by Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage, Le Mesnil Saint Denis (FR)
Filed on Nov. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/104,151.
Claims priority of application No. 1913569 (FR), filed on Nov. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0162954 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. B60S 1/38 (2006.01)
CPC B60S 1/3848 (2013.01) [B60S 2001/3843 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cover for a wiper blade, said cover being configured to collaborate with a body of the wiper blade in a position of covering an opening formed in the body, the cover comprising:
a plurality of guide tabs;
an upper wall being dimensioned to cover part of the opening when the cover is in the covering position,
the guide tabs extending the upper wall perpendicularly and being configured to hold the cover in the covering position,
wherein the cover is configured to be moved in the body between a moved-clear position distant from the opening, and said position of covering of the opening; and
at least one retaining tab extending the upper wall perpendicularly separately from the guide tabs, said retaining tab comprising end-of-travel end-stop means configured to halt the retaining tab in said moved-clear position,
wherein the cover is not detached from the body of the wiper blade in said moved-clear position,
wherein the cover moves in the body between the covering position and the moved-clear position in a direction transverse to the upper wall,
wherein in the moved-clear position, the upper wall is distant from the body of the wiper blade.