Heat exchange – With vehicle feature
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-14
2001-07-17
Lazarus, Ira S. (Department: 3743)
Heat exchange
With vehicle feature
C219S203000, C237S01230R, C239S130000, C239S131000, C392S488000, C392S495000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06260608
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle and more particularly pertains to a new windshield clearing and de-icing system for easily and quickly clearing windshields from a buildup of ice or snow.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle is known in the prior art. More specifically, means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 3,632,042; U.S. Pat. No. 4,090,668; U.S. Pat. No. 5,810,247; U.S. Pat. No. 5,327,614; U.S. Pat. No. 5,784,751; and U.S. Pat. No. 4,354,548.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new windshield clearing and de-icing system. The inventive device includes two dispensing members each of which includes a first housing having air inlet and outlet ports extending through walls of the first housing and further having fluid inlet and outlet ports extending through the walls of the first housing, and also includes a first air conduit member connected to the air inlet and outlet ports and a first fluid conduit member connected to the fluid inlet and outlet ports; and also includes a heating member connected to a fan having a motor and securely mounted in a second housing which is adapted to be mounted in an engine compartment of a vehicle; and further includes a heater member adapted to be connected to a fluid reservoir pump and connected to a second fluid conduit member which is connected to the first fluid conduit member.
In these respects, the windshield clearing and de-icing system according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of easily and quickly clearing windshields from a buildup of ice or snow.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new windshield clearing and de-icing system construction wherein the same can be utilized for easily and quickly clearing windshields from a buildup of ice or snow.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which has many of the advantages of the means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a first housing having air inlet and outlet ports extending through walls of the first housing and further having fluid inlet and outlet ports extending through the walls of the first housing, and also includes a first air conduit member connected to the air inlet and outlet ports and a first fluid conduit member connected to the fluid inlet and outlet ports; and also includes a heating member connected to a fan having a motor and securely mounted in a second housing which is adapted to be mounted in an engine compartment of a vehicle; and further includes a heater member adapted to be connected to a fluid reservoir pump and connected to a second fluid conduit member which is connected to the first fluid conduit member.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which has many of the advantages of the means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art means for clearing a windshield of a vehicle, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such windshield clearing and de-icing system economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system for easily and quickly clearing windshields from a buildup of ice or snow.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system which includes a first housing having air inlet and outlet ports extending through walls of the first housing and further having fluid inlet and outlet ports extending through the walls of the first housing, and also includes a first air conduit member connected to the air inlet and outlet ports and a first fluid conduit member connected to the fluid inlet and outlet ports; and also includes a heating member connected to a fan having a motor and securely mounted in a second housing which is adapted to be mounted in an engine compartment of a vehicle; and further includes a heater member adapted to be connected to a fluid reservoir pump and connected to a second fluid conduit member which is connected to the first fluid conduit member.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new windshield clearing and de-icing system that improves safe driving conditions.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new windshield clearing and de-
Ciric Ljiljana V.
Lazarus Ira S.
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