Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mitsuba Corporation

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Rikenkaki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhiko Yoshida

Hidetoshi Ijuin

Akira Takayama

Yuujiro Tashima

Takashi Hoshino

Toru Namiki

Taizo Kikuchi

Yuji Murayama

Takatoshi Kondo

Koji Iwazaki

Yuji Arie

An automobile door checker includes a case secured to a door, a check plate that runs movably through the case and is pivotably supported on a body, a detent member fitted into and retained by the case and working in cooperation with a detent face of the check plate, and a resilient member that is made of a resilient material and is provided in a compressed state in a housing chamber defined between an outer end face of the detent member and an inner end face of the case, wherein the resilient member is formed so that it substantially fills the housing chamber, the resilient member is provided with a hole portion that allows resilient deformation of the resilient member, the hole portion being sealed by the outer end face and the inner end face, and a half of the resilient member on the outer end face side and a half on the inner end face side are symmetrical. In this way, even if some rainwater that has infiltrated into the housing chamber of the case housing the resilient member freezes, it is possible to prevent the resilient deformation characteristics of the resilient member from changing, and it is also possible to avoid misassembly of the resilient member.

Automobile door checker

An automobile door checker includes a case secured to a door, a check plate that runs movably through the case and has its base end pivotably supported on a body, a detent member fitted into and retained by the case and working in cooperation with a detent face of the check plate and a resilient member that is formed from a resilient material and is provided in a compressed state in a housing chamber defined between an outer end face of the detent member and an inner end face of the case, wherein the resilient member substantially and tightly fills the housing chamber, thus preventing rainwater from infiltrating into the housing chamber. In this way, it is possible to prevent infiltration of rainwater into a housing chamber of a case housing a resilient member by a simple structure.

The wiper system with translational motion is additionally capable of moving the wiper arm in angular motion at an auto stop position so that the wiper blade may be stowed away from the view of the vehicle operator when the wiper system is not in use. The retracted position may be defined immediately below the lower edge of the windshield. When a mist switch is turned on so as to effect a quick wiping action, the wiper arm can angularly move from the retracted position to the upright position. When the wiper arm is already in the translational motion, turning on of the mist switch may increase the speed of the translational motion. To prevent the wiper blade from obstructing the view of the vehicle operator in an intermittent mode, the position of the temporary stop of the wiper blade may be selected at the reversing position which is remote from the vehicle operator. If the interval of the intermittent operation of the wiper arm is relatively short, the position of the temporary stop may then be selected at the auto stop position because the duration of the temporary stop is so short that the obstruction of the view of the vehicle operator is insignificant.

Wiper system with translational motion

In a washer nozzle assembly, the upper lip portion defining a nozzle opening extends more forwardly than the lower lip portion so that the part of the washer liquid directed upward is blocked by the longer upper lip portion, and the upper part of the spray pattern includes more liquid droplets of larger sizes as compared to the prior art. Thus, the loss of washer liquid by being flown above the windshield at high speed can be reduced, and the spray pattern of the washer nozzle assembly can be optimized for all speeds.

Window washer nozzle assembly having a favorable spray pattern

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Wako, Japan

Yasuhiko Yoshida