US 7,401,379 B2
Windshield wiper system for a motor vehicle including a heating mechanism
Dieter Hienzsch, Garmisch Partenkirchen (Germany)
Assigned to Kaessbohrer Gelaendefahrzeug AG, Laupheim (Germany)
Filed on Feb. 18, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/61,133.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2004 009 911 (DE), filed on Feb. 19, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0183227 A1, Aug. 25, 2005
Int. Cl. B60S 1/38 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 15—250.07  [15/250.05] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A windshield-wiper system for a motor vehicle with a wiper-blade carrier, comprising a wiper blade held on the wiper-blade carrier, which wiper blade has an elastically flexible wiper element, and comprising a heating mechanism for the wiper blade, wherein the wiper-blade carrier has two wall sections which conduct heat, and which flank the wiper element or the wiper blade, and wherein at least one fluid heating-medium line formed of a heat-conducting material is embedded in heat-conductive contact within a bead-like indentation in one of said wall sections and protruding from an inner surface of said one of said wall sections.