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Windshield Washer Nozzles

Bowles Fluidics Corporation is the world leader in the design and development of fluidic windshield washer nozzles and has been a supplier to the automotive industry for over 30 years. With its larger coverage area, optimal droplet sizing and efficient fluid usage, the fluidic washer nozzle has become the benchmark for cleaning performance for OEMs and their suppliers worldwide. When tested on actual vehicles against other types, the fluidic nozzle:

• Cleaned 62% – 70% faster
• Used 65% – 74% less fluid to clean
• Allowed for 53 – 65 more cleanings per bottle fill
• Pre-wet an area 19 – 23 times larger
• Held the spray position better at all road speeds
• Dramatically reduced smearing
• Greatly improved visibility and driver safety
• Reduced wiper blade wear

At the heart of the fluidic nozzle is a unique fluid logic circuit or chip. Working closely with your team, our engineers can determine the spray pattern that best suits the particular vehicle. These variables including flow rate, distribution of fluid and the position of the spray on the glass can then be “designed in” to the chip. In this way precise, consistent cleaning performance and quality is guaranteed and costly line-side adjustment of the nozzle is eliminated.

Conventional nozzles squirt fluid to a fixed spot on the windshield and rely on the wiper blade to distribute the fluid. This means the wiper runs dry until it hits the fluid – increasing wiper blade wear. Also, since the fluid is spread by the blade it has no time to penetrate the dirt before being wiped away. The result is smearing that takes additional wiper cycles to clear. The unique fluidic nozzle, on the other hand, actually oscillates the washer fluid across the windshield to provide a large coverage area. This “pre-wets” the entire wiper pattern and works to loosen the dirt and debris, providing a more complete cleaning with less wiper blade wear