US 11,702,043 B2
Heating apparatus for washer fluid
Ryoga Miki, Shizuoka (JP); Akira Fukai, Shizuoka (JP); Noriaki Masuda, Shizuoka (JP); and Toshihiro Mochizuki, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to MURAKAMI CORPORATION, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by MURAKAMI CORPORATION, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/1,985.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-158944 (JP), filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0061231 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. B60S 1/48 (2006.01); H05B 3/78 (2006.01); F24H 1/20 (2022.01)
CPC B60S 1/487 (2013.01) [F24H 1/20 (2013.01); H05B 3/78 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heating apparatus for a washer fluid comprising:
a container having an accommodation space configured to accommodate a washer fluid;
an inlet part configured to charge a washer fluid into the accommodation space;
an outlet part configured to discharge the washer fluid from the accommodation space;
a heater provided in the accommodation space, the heater being configured to heat the washer fluid; and
a coil wound around the heater, wherein
the coil is in a spiral shape extending about an axis of the coil, and the coil is formed of a wire in contact with the heater, and
the coil has a close contact part where a plurality of the wires is in close contact to each other in an extending direction of the axis.