Dennis M Sopko

US Patent:

62668439, Jul 31, 2001

Filed:

May 3, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/303751

Inventors:

Bradley Napier Doman - Ann Arbor MI
Dennis Michael Sopko - Dearborn Heights MI
Jerome Tzau - Livonia MI

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies,Inc. - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60S 140
B60S 138

US Classification:

15250201

Abstract:

A vehicle window wiper assembly has a one-piece carrier with a central section and flexible tips to allow the wiper to accommodate windows of high curvature. The tips have a higher flexibility than the central section, due in part to molded serrations on the bottom surface in combination with decreased thickness and width with respect to the central section. The central section and the tips also have different radii of curvature which provide a uniform pressure distribution across the window during wiping operation, even at high curvature window locations. A blade channel extends the longitudinal length of the carrier for receiving a wiper blade therein. The central section has a molded air foil defined by a downwardly projecting, longitudinally extending lip on a leading edge for preventing wiper assembly lift. The rear edge of the central section may have similar lip. A pair of laterally opposed attachment flanges, as well as laterally opposed stability posts, are integrally molded with the central section, as are the tips and air foil lips.

US Patent:

53462882, Sep 13, 1994

Filed:

Oct 18, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/136865

Inventors:

Charles F. Hodge - Plymouth MI
Syed H. Sarmast - Northville MI
Gerald F. Herbert - Dearborn Heights MI
Dennis M. Sopko - Dearborn Heights MI

Assignee:

Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60B 700

US Classification:

301 3737

Abstract:

A wheel and cover assembly for an automotive vehicle is provided which includes a road wheel and a cover member aligned road wheel and provides a continuous cushioning member interposed laterally between the cover and the road wheel. The cushioning member is formed as the rubber band L-shaped in cross-section which cooperates with a plurality of circumferentially spaced standoff ribs formed on the laterally inner surface of the cover.