Patent ID: 7657963

Claim:
A wiper motor having an electric motor and an output shaft for outputting motive power generated by said electric motor, and swinging and driving a wiper arm attached to said output shaft, the wiper motor comprising: an output gear provided to said output shaft and rotatably housed in a gear case; a rotating body rotatably housed in said gear case and rotate-driven by said electric motor; a motive power conversion member having an arm part rotatably connected to said rotating body and a sector gear part meshing with said output gear in a linking shaft located away from a rotation-central axis of said rotating body; a swinging plate swingably connected to a gear shaft of said sector gear part and said output shaft and swingably supporting said sector gear part around said output shaft; a first slidable contact member mounted on a tip of said output shaft so as to face said swinging plate by interposing said output gear, the first slidable contact member slidably contacting with said gear case; and a second slidable contact member formed separately from said first slidable contact member, mounted on said sector gear part, and slidably contacting with said gear case in a same side as that of said first slidable contact member; wherein at least one of said first and second slidable contact members is formed into such a cap-shape as to cover a tip of a shaft corresponding to the at least one.