| US 7,506,823 B2 | ||
| Washing nozzle for discharging a liquid cleaning or washing medium | ||
| Simone Eisele, Ingersheim (Germany); and Uwe Lasebnick, Ditzingen (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage, La Verriere (France) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/539,880 PCT Filed Dec. 15, 2003, PCT No. PCT/EP03/14240 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jun. 16, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/056489, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 08, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 102 59 563 (DE), filed on Dec. 19, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0157591 A1, Jul. 20, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B05B 1/10 (2006.01); B60S 1/46 (2006.01); B05B 7/06 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 239—284.1 [239/284.2; 239/426; 239/429; 239/407; 239/431] | 15 Claims |
| 1. A washing nozzle for use on vehicles for applying a liquid cleaning or washing medium, wherein at least one nozzle channel
in a nozzle body comprises at least one nozzle opening being formed by said at least one nozzle channel for the exit of at
least one nozzle jet wherein said at least one nozzle jet comprises at least one supply line which opens into said at least
one nozzle channel for supplying said liquid cleaning or washing medium, and wherein said at least one nozzle channel comprises
at least one section in said at least one nozzle channel for generating at least one primary or main jet from said liquid
cleaning or washing medium, wherein means for acting on said at least one primary or main jet with a collision jet within
the nozzle body in a collision and/or mixing chamber is provided upstream of said at least one nozzle opening in the flow
direction,
wherein said at least one nozzle channel has at least two channel sections having a reduced cross section, and
wherein said at least two channel sections having a reduced cross section are arranged with their axes in a common plane (XZ
plane).
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