Patent ID: 9352724
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: B60S,G05B

Claim Text:
1. A wiper device comprising: a wiper blade that wipes a front glass of a vehicle, via a wiper arm which is supported so as to be capable of swinging with respect to the vehicle, by swinging of the wiper arm; a wiper motor that includes an output shaft connected to the wiper arm through a link so as to be capable of transmitting rotation force to the wiper arm, and that rotates the output shaft to swing the wiper blade in alternating, the wiper motor rotating forward and reverse the output shaft to swing the wiper blade between an upper turn position and a lower turn position; and a control unit that, in a case in which an ignition switch of the vehicle is switched ON or OFF, controls the wiper motor such that the stopped wiper blade which is stopped in a specific range which is set in the vicinity of the lower turn position is swung within the specific range from a position where the stopped wiper blade is located at a time when the ignition switch is switched ON or OFF, and thereafter the wiper blade swinging within the specific range is stopped in the specific range, wherein an upper end and a lower end of the specific range in a swinging direction of the wiper blade are set at positions which are in the vicinity of the lower turn position, wherein the upper end and the lower end of the specific range are set at the positions which are nearer to the lower turn position than the upper turn position in the swinging direction of the wiper blade.