Ilon Mask said he wants Tesla Roadster to have launch vehicles, had the ability to hang, and now also clean the windshield with an unconventional way.
Tesla is a company that wants to make as many things as possible as unconventional way. One of the areas in which the company showed its new ideas is cleaning the windshield of some of the future models.
You may remember that for Cybertruck, the automaker suggested (and filed a patent application) a system in which the laser rays cleaned the windshield from water and garbage. Well, after some hype created around this idea, now Tesla again falls in news headers with another unique way to clean the windshield of the future model Roadster.
In this patent (which was already approved by the US Patent Office on January 12) there is nothing as exciting as lasers, but it still sounds quite cool, although at first glance it seems a bit complicated and difficult to understand:
"The disclosed electromagnetic wiper system may contain a linear drive that is capable of including a guide and electromagnetic mobile unit. The guide rail may include a plurality of rods with permanent magnets, which are located horizontally from the curvature of the vehicle windshield. The electromagnetic mobile unit can act as an electromagnetic train and will be equipped with a plurality of perforations and at least one electromagnetic coil, which surrounds a plurality of perforations in the electromagnetic movable block. The linear movement of the electromagnetic mobile unit through a plurality of rods with constant magnets can be controlled to change the mode of operation of the wiper, which can be connected to the electromagnetic movable block. This will allow you to wipe a certain area of windshield. This can lead to minimal friction during the linear movement of the electromagnetic mobile unit. "
Basically, this means that the wiper will be connected to an electromagnetic linear drive, and it will be able to wipe almost 100% of the screen surface. Theoretically, it should provide a much better coverage than ordinary wipers, and allow the car to completely hide its (the only) wiper brush (under the rear edge of the hood), when it is not used.
We do not know whether this innovative system of windshield wipers will enter the serial version of the Rhodster, whose debut is expected in the summer of 2022, but we very much hope that the mask will surprise us with something unusual.