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Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American mechanical engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964, after a few previous designs by other ...
Marc Abraham, who previously had produced The Road to Wellville (1994), Air Force One (1997), and Children of Men (2006), among many films, had long been drawn to the Robert Kearns saga for his directorial debut because the inventor believed more in fairness and honesty than the money offered to make him drop his lawsuit.
In 1963, another form of intermittent wiper was invented by Robert Kearns, an engineering professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. [3] (United States Patent 3,351,836 – 1964 filing date). Kearns's design was intended to mimic the function of the human eye, which blinks only once every few seconds. In 1963, Kearns built his ...
Robert Kearns (1927–2005) was an American engineer, educator and inventor. Robert Kearns may also refer to: Robbie Kearns (born 1971), Australian rugby player;
United States Patent US3262042 was filed two years before Kearns filed, and was also granted before Kearns. It appears to be the earliest US patent for an intermittent windshield wiper - it was granted, and the only other patents it cites are nor for intermittent wipers. The patent owner was Lucas, a UK company, so there may be prior art in the UK.
In 2008, he starred in Flash of Genius, a docudrama about Robert Kearns who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. His portrayal of then-Major Bruce P. Crandall in 2002's We Were Soldiers brought public attention to Crandall's heroism during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang .
The United States Patent: 4494107 lists Kearns (along with James G. H. Quan) as inventor of a Digital-to-Analog Converter. I'm not sure whether or not this patent applies to modern electronics, such as the Compact Disc Player, but either way, it seems significant; It was an improvement to prior, problematic accomplishments in the field.
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