Patent ID: 8715421
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
1. An automated method of using a windshield wiper on a windshield, the windshield wiper having a wiper assembly and a scrubber assembly, the method comprising: in response to activation of a washer fluid activator: lowering the scrubber assembly of the windshield wiper to the windshield and raising the wiper assembly of the windshield wiper off the windshield, the scrubber assembly comprising a scrubber support structure and an elongated scrubber element movably attached to the scrubber support structure, the scrubber element having a central longitudinal axis extending in the elongate direction between a first end and a spaced apart second end; reciprocating the elongated scrubber element of the scrubber assembly back and forth along the central longitudinal axis; and while reciprocating the elongated scrubber element, moving the windshield wiper across the windshield along a prescribed arcuate path such that the reciprocating motion of the scrubber element is generally parallel to the windshield and generally perpendicular to the prescribed arcuate path as the windshield wiper moves across the windshield, the acts of lowering, reciprocating, and moving being automatically performed for a predetermined period of time.