Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7721382 | Frameless, heated wiper assembly and system utilizing same A heated wiper system including at least one frameless, heated wiper assembly is provided. Each wiper assembly includes a flexible squeegee blade and a pair of spaced flexible backing members. The assembly includes a pair of flexible heaters disposed between the bla... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7401379 | Windshield wiper system for a motor vehicle including a heating mechanism A windshield-wiper system for a motor vehicle with a wiper-blade carrier, a wiper blade held on the wiper-blade carrier, which wiper blade has an elastically flexible wiper element, includes a heating mechanism for the wiper blade. The wiper-blade carrier has at lea... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7269876 | Window and lens glass cleaning system In a window and lens glass cleaning system for a window/lens glass of a motor vehicle, a washer nozzle, a heating element and a nonreturn valve are in each case arranged on or in a retaining part. The retaining part is fastened on a wiper arm which can pivot over th... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6954965 | Forced hot air windshield wiper system Windshield wiper apparatus is provided to substantially increase the amount of heat and the speed with which the heat is delivered to the wiper mechanism and blade to clean the ice and snow accumulation. Hot air is provided from either or both the exhaust system or ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6779222 | Windshield wiper and windshield heating combination device A windshield wiper and windshield heating combination device for resisting ice and snow accumulation includes an arm assembly and a blade attached to the arm assembly. The blade includes a resiliently elastic material. A heating assembly is coupled to the windshield... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6754933 | Heated windshield wiper A heated wiper mechanism, arranged to prevent ice from building up on the articulated wiper arm structure of a vehicle windshield wiper carrying a flexible strip (1), the heater mechanism including an electrically supplied, heat radiating wire (9) supp... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6678915 | Heated windshield wiper blades The present invention 10 discloses an electrical heating element 16 welded at 26 to the under side of the wiper housing 28, creating continuous surface contact between the metals. Through conduction, the heating element 16 heats the wiper arm components 1... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6634053 | Apparatus for activating a heat conductive wire by detecting a rotating angle of a wiper arm The present invention relates to an apparatus for activating heat conductive wires by detecting a rotating angle of a wiper arm, wherein said heat conductive wires Installed on the both side of a wiper blade are activated when the detected rotating angle ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6591443 | Heated windshield wiper A windshield wiper includes a plurality of electrical resistance heater elements. Some of the heater elements are located in the flexible wiper blade body and some of the heater elements are located in a wiper blade back element. The heater elements are s... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6513185 | Windshield wiper A windshield wiper has a wiper arm (10), which is driven via a drive shaft and is made up of a fastening element (12) and a hinge element (14), pivotably connected to it via a swivel joint (18). The hinge element has a wiper rod (36) to which a wiper blad... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6499180 | Device for heating a wiper blade A device for heating a wiper blade for preventing ice build-up on windshield wiper blades. The device for heating a wiper blade includes an elongated block having a first end and a second end. The block has a top side, a bottom side, a first lateral side ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6140608 | Heated windshield wiper with removable heating element A windshield wiper assembly for connection to a windshield wiper retainer assembly of a vehicle comprises a housing having a pair of flexible side walls presenting wiping edges depending therefrom and adapted for contact with a windshield. A top wall of t... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6032324 | Windshield heated wiping system A windshield wiper system for an automotive vehicle is disclosed in which the windshield wiper washer fluid is heated and delivered to the windshield through the rubber wiping element. In one embodiment, the windshield wiper fluid is heated to a substanti... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6028291 | Heated windshield wiper system A heated windshield wiper system for reducing the accumulation of ice and snow upon a vehicle's windshield wipers during cold weather conditions. The inventive device includes a blade member having a passageway extending through a central portion thereof,... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6008474 | Heated windshield wiper system A heated windshield wiper system for eliminating ice and snow accumulation upon a windshield wiper thereby preventing interference with the wiper's operation. The inventive device includes a heat exchanger for engagement with a heated portion of a vehicle... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5826293 | Heated wiper blade The present invention is a heated wiper blade comprising an elongated blade and a heating element connected to the electrical system of a vehicle. The heating element utilizes a material with a positive temperature coefficient of resistance placed between... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5799390 | Method of installing a windshield wiper assembly having an electric heating circuit A windshield wiper blade assembly providing having an electrical heating mechanism along the length of a wiper blade. The assembly can be trimmed to a length appropriate for a particular automobile.... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5791010 | Heated windshield wiper A new HEATED WINDSHIELD WIPER for melting snow and ice accumulation off of the windshield wipers of a vehicle. The inventive device includes a wiper arm having an elongate main articulation bow and a pair of elongate carrier bows each pivotally coupled to... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5749118 | Heated wiper blade The present invention is a heated wiper blade comprising an elongated blade and a heating element connected to the electrical system of a vehicle. The heating element utilizes a material with a positive temperature coefficient of resistance placed between... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5699581 | Heated wiper assembly with brush attachment A heated windshield wiper with a detachable brush assembly. An enclosed metal housing contains the heating element supplied with electrical energy from the engine's battery to heat the attached wiper. The brush is slidably mounted within an external housi... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5632058 | Heated wiper blade with a scraper and fluid release nozzle assembly A heated wiper blade with a scraper and fluid release nozzle assembly including a wiper arm member that couples to a wiper shaft of an associated vehicle. An elongated wiper blade with an interior heating element is provided. A blade holder member is pivo... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5412177 | Removable heated cover for a windshield wiper blade assembly An electrically heated cover for wiper blade assemblies includes a cover body having front, rear, right-hand and left-hand end walls and a top wall having a longitudinal access opening for allowing ready connection of the wiper blade assembly to a wiper a... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5327614 | Windshield cleaning system with pipe and conductor in wiper shaft A windshield cleaning system with a wiper shaft for driving a wiper arm-and-blade assembly is described, which windshield cleaning system comprises an axial bore for forming a washing liquid channel, whereby at least one electric conductor for heating the... | 07/12/1994 |
| 4967437 | Heated wiper blade assembly A heated wiper blade assembly for windshields is provided, in which a plastic blade holder has an upper longitudinal groove for receiving a flat electric heating element enclosed in a ribbon of dielectric. The plastic blade holder also has at its lower po... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4945600 | Pane wiper apparatus The pane wiper apparatus for the windshield of a motor vehicle has a driven wiper implement in the form of a wiper strip which is moved over the height of the windshield. The strip is guided and driven by guide and drive elements arranged in side or edge ... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4852204 | Windshield wiper structure Windshield wiper structure includes a wiper blade for engaging a windshield of a vehicle, and supporting elements including a metallic wiper blade carrier for carrying the blade, a metallic wiper arm connected to the carrier and pivotally mountable throug... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4821363 | Device for washing and defrosting automobile windshields In order to achieve satisfactory defrosting without causing undue wear of the wiper blades equipped with double tongues of elastomer material, the invention provides for first freeing the tongues from the coating of ice by blowing hot air into the duct fo... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4700424 | Windshield washing system for motor vehicles In a windshield washing system for motor vehicles which includes a line for the supply of heated washing liquid to a spray nozzle, the line is part of a closed circulatory system which extends from a heating device in a reservoir tank to the spray nozzle ... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4670933 | Heated windshield wiper An electrically heated windshield wiper assembly which includes a wiper blade of a resilient material such as rubber which is mounted within a wiper blade mounting strip of metallic material coated or laminated with plastic wherein the material is electri... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4603451 | Heated windshield wiper assembly A heated windshield wiper assembly adapted to be secured to the wiper arm of a motor vehicle. The wiper assembly provides intermittent heat to the wiper blade according to weather conditions to prevent icing of the wiper blade and assembly. The wiper asse... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4387290 | Anti-freezing system for a windshield-wiper An anti-freezing system for a windshield-wiper of a vehicle including a cut off device, which may be a relay, responsive to a temperature sensor which senses the ambient temperature. The cut off device energizes a heater to heat the windshield-wiper when ... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4360941 | Electrically heated windshield wiper assembly A windshield wiper assembly for preventing freezing of the wiper blades, and blade supporting frames, of a vehicle, during a sleet storm, the blade and frame being enclosed in a weather protective hood. A first pair of electric conductors are each affixed... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4194261 | Heated wiper arrangement A heated wiper arrangement for windshields and like surfaces including an elongated backing member having means along the inner face area thereof to retainingly receive an elongated wiper blade longitudinally therealong. A heating element is closely assoc... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4152808 | Heating unit for windshield wiper A windshield wiper unit adapted to be secured to conventional wiper mechanisms and to retain conventional wiper blades while providing heat to both for the prevention of icing. The unit is of molded nylon having very thin resistance ribbon wires embedded ... | 05/08/1979 |
| 3948811 | Electrically conductive sheet composition An electrically conductive product generally comprised of a substrate or web coated with or impregnated with an electrically conductive thermally stable material which includes a special polymeric binder and conductive particles to produce the final condu... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3939524 | Windscreen wipers A windscreen wiper comprising a reciprocable arm, a flexible blade element mounted on the arm and including a pair of flexible wall members terminating in generally parallel spaced lip members adapted to engage a windscreen surface so that the blade eleme... | 02/24/1976 |
