ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,668, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan).
"Wiper blade linking structure" was invented by Kazuhisa Tamura (Gunma, Japan), Kazuya Nishimura (Gunma, Japan) and Nobutaka Nakajima (Gunma, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linking structure of a wiper blade 12 includes a wiper arm 10, the wiper blade 12, a hook part 10a provided at the wiper arm 10, and a linking part 13 provided at the wiper blade 12. The hook part 10a has a tip side extension part 10b in which a through hole 10c is formed. The linking part 13 has: a pair of sidewalls 13a, 13b facing each other; a cylindrical part 13c bonded to the pair of ...