Introduction
Lucas TVS was established in 1962 as Joint
Venture between Lucas Plc. UK and TVS Group,
India. Lucas started operations in India from
1930 as Lucas Indian Service for providing
warranty and after sales service to many of the
imported vehicles which carried Lucas parts.
Wiper motor diagram
Wiper Motor Definition
The car wiper motor is the electrical device that
rotates to operate windscreen wipers. It’s usually
a simple DC motor with brushes (or without), and
copper wire armature.
The motor is also called windshield wiper motor
or windscreen wiper motor. Wiper motors form
part of the windscreen washer system that
comprises a wiper switch, wiper linkage, wiper
arms, and the wash fluid reservoir.
It’s usually located in the engine bay where it
mounts on the firewall using bolts. Most vehicles
use a single motor for the front windshield.
Others come with a rear wiper motor as well, with
high-end cars featuring rear window wipers.
Every extra windshield or window to be wiped
means an additional motor.
A vehicle may, therefore, have the component in
other places than the front windscreen. Wiper
motor design varies. One version of the motor
uses permanent magnets, the other
electromagnets.
You can easily recognize a permanent magnet
type of motor by its shape. It’s normally a
cylindrical shape compared to the square shape
of those that use electromagnets.
There’s also the one speed and variable speed
wiper motor. These mostly differ in the number
of brushes.
The single-speed motor uses two brushes, the
two-speed type three. Now, on to the wiper
motor working principle and, why you need it
functional in your car.
1.4 Applications
When coming up with a design, it is obvious that
it is intended to be used in a certain manner in a
certain place. Therefore, it is good to understand
the applications of a certain mechanisms which
can also help you during the designing and
fabrication processes. A mechanism can handle
one function or multiple of functions. In this
case, our project is about windshield wiper
mechanism which is intended to wipe a maximum
area of a windshield.
