Mazda Motor Corporation

Mitsuba Corporation

Ippei Yamauchi

Keisuke Kondou

Takeshi Ikeda

Narimitsu Kobori

Nobukazu Managi

Masahiro Yamada

Eisuke Iino

Minoru Hoshino

A wiper control method and a wiper control device are provided. An arm falling position for stopping wiper arms for a predetermined time is set above a lower reversal position. When the wiper arms stopped on the side of an upper reversal position with respect to the arm falling position, such as a service position, are moved to a storage position set below the lower reversal position, or when a wiping operation is to be performed again, the wiper arms are temporarily stopped for the predetermined time at the arm falling position. Then, after the predetermined time elapses, the wiper arms are moved to the storage position in the case of a storage operation, and moved to the upper reversal position in the case of restarting, and then the normal wiping operation is performed.

Wiper control method and wiper control device

A wiper control technique is provided that can prevent a windshield from being damaged by a falling wiper blade during a wiper parking operation, even when a wiper arm is in a retreat position where the blade is raised and held away from the windshield. In one embodiment, the wiper arm is stopped for a predetermined time interval at a predetermined pause position when the wiper arm is positioned above a parked position and at the retreat position during the wiper parking operation, while the wiper arm is being swung downward toward a lower reversal position. The pause position is a position at which the wiper arm is able to fall toward the windshield to return to a base position. After a lapse of the predetermined time interval, the wiper arm is swung to the parked position.

Wiper control method and wiper control apparatus

Provided is a windshield wiper arm. This windshield wiper arm includes: an arm head (); a shank; an arm piece connected to the windshield wiper blade; a washer nozzle which sprays a washer liquid onto the wiping surface; and a hose. The hose is divided into a first hose disposed along the arm head and a second hose disposed within the vehicle body. The first hose and the second hose are connected in a manner that washer liquid can flow from one hose to the other via a joint member (). The arm head () has an opening part (A) which opens on a fastening partside, and the joint member () is mounted to the arm head () in a manner that the part of the joint member () that connects with the second hose penetrates the opening part (A).

Wiper arm

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Hiroshima, Japan

Ippei Yamauchi