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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Gebhard Michenfelder, Lichtenau, DE;
Marcellus Weber, Lauf, DE;
Peter Braun, Buehlertal, DE;
Michael May, Offenburg, DE;
Klaus Eckert, Durbach Ebersweier, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a windshield wiper drive unit having a drive motor ( ) and a gear ( ) for transmitting a rotary motion of the motor ( ) to the shaft of a windshield wiper, having at least one sensor ( ) for detecting a position of the shaft, and having a control circuit ( ), which receives a detection signal of the sensor ( ) and has one or more inputs ( ) for receiving operating signals that define a desired operating state of the windshield wiper and is arranged to control a sequence of motions of the shaft as a function of the operating signal received, in which the control circuit ( ) is combined with the drive motor ( ) and the at least one sensor to make an integral component unit.