Abstract: A coupling device has a clip and a clip holder. A hook at a distal portion of a wiper arm is attached to the clip. The clip holder has a locking member and a cover. The cover extends along the longitudinal direction of the wiper arm. The cover has a first cover portion and a second cover portion. When the clip holder is located at an engage position where the clip holder is engaged with the clip, the second cover portion extends to connected parts of a boundary between a retainer and an arm piece.

Abstract: A wiper for an automobile rear-view mirror includes a wiper transmission device disposed at the rear side of a mirror base, a connecting rod and a wiper. The wiper transmission device has a transmission motor provided with a drive gear engaged with a driven gear coupled with a worm that is engaged with a worm gear. The worm gear is connected with a driven worm by a support shaft, and the driven worm is engaged with a driven worm gear secured on a rotating shaft, which has its outer end inserted out of the rearview mirror and fixed with a connecting rod having a wiper fixed thereon. When the wiper transmission device is started, the wiper can sway upward and downward for wiping water drops off the surface of the rear-view mirror to keep it clear, enabling a driver to clearly watch the traffic conditions and drive safely.

Abstract: A universal connection device mainly contains a cover member having two opposing and parallel walls. The height of each wall decreases gradually towards a front end in a front section and decreases more sharply towards a back end in a back section. Within a middle section between the front and back sections, each wall has a number of through holes of different apertures and a number of protrusions on the inner surface. On top of and between the front sections of the two walls, a liftable tab is provided. The connection device further contains an elongated piece attached to one of the walls of the cover member. The piece has a curved outer surface and a rod on an inner surface for embedding into one of the holes of the cover member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a joint apparatus of car windshield wiper arm, which comprises a gripping cabin and a chassis; wherein, said gripping cabin having a hollow opening perforates through at the junction of the top surface and the front side; a vertical elastic hook is erected at the center of said hollow opening; and a pair of snap-on lugs are outwards respectively protruded at two junctions in the left side and right side of said gripping cabin with the rear side. By means of said vertical elastic hook and two snap-on lugs buckling engagement with the front tab and two bottom flaps on the head of said wiper arm, the rigging joint between of said wiper and said wiper arm become more securely firm; Besides, in the practical operation of dismantling and replacing worn wiper by new one, the separation of said wiper from said wiper arm can be easily, simply and rapidly accomplished by directly applying force on said vertical elastic hook with only one finger.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for the pivoting connection of a wiper blade (14) to a wiper arm (12) of a windscreen wiper, comprising a connector element (52, 84, 100) fixed to the wiper arm (12) and a connector element (24) fixed to a support element (20) on the wiper blade (14), which supports a bearing element (32), forming a pivoting bearing with a bearing element (34) on an adapter (38, 80) made from plastic. The adaptor (38, 80) is fixed in the profile of the connector element (52, 84, 100) open in the direction of the connector element (24) by clip elements (40, 78, 82) and retainer elements (62, 64, 86, 90, 104).

Abstract: A wiper blade of a wiper system of a vehicle includes a blade rubber, two backing plates, a holder and a resilient fin. The backing plates are received in backing grooves of the blade rubber. The holder is rotatably connected to a wiper arm of the wiper system and detachably holds the blade rubber, which has the backing plates. The resilient fin is connected to the holder and limits lifting of the wiper blade from a windshield surface of the vehicle when the vehicle is running.

Abstract: A wiper is disclosed. The wiper comprises an elastic plate being elongated and having two ends with side edge provided with symmetrical notches; two securing seats provided with a substantially U-shaped slot and a grip section provided below the slot having a plurality of horizontal sectional slits; two rubber covers which are pointed and the bottom edge of the side edge of the cover being an inward hook section; and a bottom edge mounted with a buttoning rod seat with an engaging hook and a rubber stripe, whereby the elastic plate is mounted at the slot and is then engaged at the rubber cover, the grip is mounted with the rubber stripe and the center of the elastic plate and the two ends thereof are respectively securing to the buttoning rot seat and a protective cover, forming into the wiper.

Abstract: A wiper system including a wiper arm having a pivot end, attachment member and an elongate body. The attachment member includes a deck, a tab, wall plate, and a pin that extends transversely relative to the tab. The tab and the wall plate depend from the deck to define a channel. The deck extends along an inclined plane to maximize downward force of air current applied to the deck to reduce wind lift. The system further includes a wiper assembly having a wiping element, an elongated beam and a carrier. The carrier has sidewalls that define a track to receive the elongated beam and further includes a coupler to releasably engage the attachment member. The coupler includes a bore to receive the pin and a saddle to engage the channel. The saddle includes first and second guide surfaces to limit the rotational movement of the wiper assembly about the pin.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a joint apparatus of car windshield wiper arm, which comprises a upper cover body and a chassis; wherein said upper cover body having a round groove cut with V-shaped cross-section is concaved near the bottom side of the front side; a guiding gap is concaved between said front top surface and said rear top surface; a horizontal round groove receptacle and a vertical hollow socket are respectively created at said guiding gap; a horizontal elastic embed hook is built at the center between said rear side; and said chassis having a pair of parallel and symmetrical left plate and right plate are upwards built at the front section, and a horizontal fixing pivot is bridged near the front end; an upright curbing plate is upwards formed in the middle section of the bottom plate; a insetting hole is perforated at the center of the rear plate.

Abstract: A windshield wiper blade assembly is disclosed which comprises a resilient wiper blade having an axial passage through which a flexible support beam is positioned to provide structure. A universal connector element for connecting the blade assembly to a plurality of different wiper arms crimps onto the blade and support beam assembly approximately midway along the wiper blade in a manner which does not puncture nor interfere with the resilient windshield wiper material, while at the same time preventing the relative axial translation of the support beam within the windshield wiper blade as well as translation between the blade and the connector itself.

Abstract: A wiper is disclosed. The wiper comprises an elastic plate being elongated and having two ends with side edge provided with symmetrical notches; two securing seats provided with a substantially U-shaped slot and a grip section provided below the slot having a plurality of horizontal sectional holes; two rubber covers which are pointed and the bottom edge of the side edge of the cover being an inward hook section; and a bottom edge mounted with a buttoning rod seat with an engaging hook and a rubber stripe, whereby the elastic plate is mounted at the slot and is then engaged at the rubber cover, the grip is mounted with the rubber stripe and the center of the elastic plate and the two ends thereof are respectively securing to the buttoning rod seat and a protective cover, forming into the wiper.

Abstract: An upper cover body has left and right grooves between a solid core and left and right sides; a round groove near a front side; a rear facing receptacle across a rear of the solid core; the left and right sides including left and right ribs extending to the rear end encompassing a hollow socket; an elastic embed hook on the rear end corresponding with the receptacle and having a forward facing nose. A chassis has a bottom plate, left and right plates extending upward from respective sides of the bottom plate, and a rear plate; a fixing hole in the bottom plate; an upright curbing plate at the rear end of the bottom plate; a front horizontal fixing pivot between the left and right plates; an upright hollow plug encompassed by the left, right, and rear plates; an insetting hole centered in the rear plate.

Abstract: A bridge base is utilized on a wiper blade support for mounting a housing through which a wiper arm is installed. The assembly of the bridge base and wiper blade support becomes a standard assembly that matches a plurality of housings of any (automobile) brands so as to achieve cost effectiveness and maximize selections of the wiper blade supports and the housings.

Abstract: After being mounted with a wiper blade and a bridge base, a windshield wiper assembly can be combined with a wiper arm via a housing mounted on the bridge Base. The wiper blade support of the invention possesses a weight adjustment design allowing the pressure applied by the wiper arm at the central portion to be evenly distributed toward the ends of the wiper blade so as to make the wiper blade adapt to the radian of any windshields for closely contact the windshield. As such, the wiper blade is able to achieve better performance in wiping off rain.

Abstract: The present invention includes clips elements that are advantageously employed with vehicle wiper blades. Particularly preferred clip elements may comprise a clip body inserted into a tip of a wiper blade, and a latching cover rotatably installed at the clip body. In preferred aspects, the latching cover can be releasably secured to the clip body and can prevent the clip body from being withdrawn from the tip of a wiper blade during a secured state. When a user rotates the latching cover after releasing the latching cover from the clip body, the overall clip can easily be detached from the tip of the blade, thereby enabling economical part replacement.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a connecting device for a windshield wiper having no support frame and hook type windshield wiper arm, which comprises a chassis, a saddle hood, a sliding cover and a connector; By means of buckling two insetting juts on the sliding rails with two insetting holes on the left side panel and right side panel of said chassis, said sliding cover can quickly sliding out away said saddle hood in buckling fixed position unable to detach off each other; Thereby, during dismounting and mounting procedure of the hook head on the hook-type wiper arm with said connector, not only without any help in holding said sliding cover from anyone else but also eliminating the interference of bumping from said sliding cover sliding back unwillingly only one person can easily and quickly complete all process.

Abstract: Wiper lever (10) with a driven wiper arm (12) and a wiper blade (16) linked to it for cleaning windows, particularly those of motor vehicles, which is provided with a band-like, long-stretched-out, elastic supporting element (30), which features, on its lower band surface facing the window, a long-stretched-out, rubber elastic wiper strip (24) that can be applied to it, on whose upper band surface (29), particularly in the longitudinal middle area of the supporting element (30), a coupling part (32) is situated and wind deflector strip partial sections (52) extending to the ends of the supporting element are arranged on both sides of the coupling part (32). An especially harmonic transition between the wiper blade (16) and the wiper arm (12) is achieved in the area of the joint (46, 47) connecting these two wiper lever parts if the wiper lever (10) is provided with a cap (60) to cover the connection area between the wiper blade (16) and the wiper arm (12).

Abstract: An arrangement for fixing a windscreen wiper blade to a wiper arm includes a through transverse swivel pin which is intended to form a pivot connection with the arm and said arm is equipped with an end rod. The arrangement includes an independent piece, known as an adapter, which is mounted on the blade and the above-mentioned rod is inserted longitudinally therein.

Abstract: A windshield wiper connecter comprises a top plate, a pair of clipping pieces, a first fastening portion, and a second fastening portion. The pair of clipping pieces are extended respectively from the top plate, and has a pivotal hooking groove between the pair of clipping pieces; the first fastening portion is extended from the top plate and disposed on one side of the pair of clipping pieces, and has a hooking groove; and the second fastening portion is extended from the top plate and disposed on the other side of the pair of clipping pieces, and has a hooking groove; whereby forming a windshield wiper connecter can be connected to a locking windshield arm with different sizes.

Abstract: A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be place in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes opposing longitudinal grooves on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves space-apart longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed, wherein neighboring ends of said longitudinal strips are interconnected by a respective connecting piece, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for an oscillating wiper arm, whrein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to said connecting device about a pivot axis near one end, a special feature of which is that the end of the oscillating wiper arm includes two at lest substantially cylindrical protrusions, which form bearing surfaces, at the location of the pivot axis, which protrusions extend in lateral direction with respect to the oscillating wiper arm.

Abstract: A holder piece assembly having holder pieces continuously arranged and leaf spring members connecting between each holder piece, and being curved in the longitudinal direction by elastic force of elastic members is provided. The holder piece assembly is mounted on the front edge of a wiper arm through a clip pin. Blade rubber for wiping window glass surface is mounted on the holder piece assembly. The elastic force of the leaf spring members elastically deformed when the blade rubber is allowed to conform with the window glass surface can disperse the pressing force of the wiper arm over the blade rubber longitudinal direction. The dispersed pressing force can be set by changing the connecting angle between each holder piece according to the window glass curvature thereby the wiper blade versatility is improved.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade that cleans panes, in particular of motor vehicles. The wiper blade (10) comprises a strip-shaped, elongated, elastically resilient support element (12), the lower strip surface of which faces the pane (14) and is provided with an elongated, elastic wiper strip (24) running parallel to the longitudinal axis. The upper strip surface (16) of the element is provided with a wind deflector strip (42), which consists of an elastic material, extends in the longitudinal direction of the support element and has an oncoming stream surface (54) that faces the principal flow direction, (arrow 52), of the air stream.

Abstract: A heavy-duty flat wiper blade assembly has a wiper element and an extruded metallic frame. The frame has a bottom channel with a slot traversing its length in which the wiper element is maintained. The wiper element extends through the slot and outwardly from the bottom channel to make contact with a surface to be wiped. The frame has a closed upper channel that may include a fluid inlet opening for receiving wiper fluid into the channel and a fluid outlet opening for discharging the wiper fluid from the upper channel onto a surface to be wiped.

Abstract: A wiping device particularly for motor vehicles includes a wiper blade formed of a wiper rubber with two longitudinal grooves arranged opposite each other and a supporting element in the form of two elongated elastic rails arranged in the longitudinal grooves. An adapter element is provided on the supporting element to connect the wiper blades to a driveable wiper arm. A connecting element extending in a cross direction is used to connect the opposite-lying elastic rails and is arranged on at least one of the free ends of the wiper blade. The connecting element is welded to both of the front sides of the extremities of the elastic rails which are situated opposite each other.

Abstract: The present model refers to a wiper blade arrangement, wherein said blade acts on the surface of a windshield, said blade having a blade body formed as a single piece by welding, bonding, fitting or coextrusion of two different profiled materials, resulting in a single body having a curved shape throughout its length to allow uniform distribution of the load applied by the arm of the wiper. The blade and the arm are joined together by a sequential central support, made of metallic or plastic material, or, alternatively, by an enclosing central support, joining the blade body through a metal vertebra. The blade body has alternative constructive arrangements in its upper region, having a symmetric or asymmetric spoiler, as well as an alternative constructive arrangement with no spoiler at all, but only a convex bulging, leading to improved distribution of the airflow on the blade.

Abstract: The invention starts with a wiper blade (20) comprised of a wiper strip support (22) and a wiper strip (24) that is guided laterally by a device (28) with a connecting rod (32, 74) vis-à-vis a wiper arm (10), whereby one end of the connecting rod (32, 74) is fixed so that it can pivot on an articulated part (12) of the wiper arm (10) approx. vertically to the windshield (26), and the connecting rod (32, 74) having lateral guide surfaces is adjacent to a part of the wiper blade (20). It is proposed that a pivot bearing (86, 88) be arranged on both ends of the connecting rod (32, 74), one of which permits a movement in the longitudinal direction of the wiper arm (10) or the wiper blade (20).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cap for a wiper connector of a motor vehicle. A cap for wiper is comprised of a pair of side walls facing each other to form space where at least a portion of the wiper connector is accommodated, a connecting part for connecting the pair of side walls, a mounting part which is releasably mounted to the wiper connector and a flab protruding outwardly from at least one of the the side walls.

Abstract: A wiper connector for a motor vehicle intended for the connection and articulation between a wiper arm and a component of a wiper blade is engaged longitudinally from rear to front inside the front end of the arm, which is curved longitudinally towards the rear in the form of a U. The wiper connector includes at least one elastically deformable element for securing the connector in the engaged position inside the front end of the arm and two longitudinal vertical flanks, which are designed to be received between two lateral wings of the blade component. The wiper connector is locked in the engaged position in the arm by a safety fastener mounted so as to be able to move between a closed position, in which it extends with regards to the securing element in order to prevent its elastic deformation, and an open position allowing the disengagement of the connector from the arm.

Abstract: A wiper device includes a wiper arm that is mounted in driveable fashion and that bears a wiper blade, the wiper arm being formed by an essentially U-shaped profile part that surrounds the wiper blade at least partially. The front limb, which in the installed position points essentially in the direction of travel of the vehicle, forms a spoiler, and at least one air outlet opening is situated on the additional limbs. An air guide element, configured to pass through the profile part, is arranged at least in the inner area of the U-shaped profile part.

Abstract: A windshield wiper structure for vehicles includes a truss saddle, a bow elastic stripe, a cover body, some detachable clamping devices, a strip scraper and a frame cover. Hollow pressure adjusting vents are created on said bow elastic stripe in order to keep nearly the same elasticity at every section of said bow elastic stripe. Hence, force can be equalized in every portion of the whole wiper thereby achieving even pressure distribution. As a result, the contact between the strip scraper and the windshield glass is uniformly tight and hermetic to enhance the scraping effect of the windshield wiper as the effect of prolonging service-lifetime while reducing expenses associated with wiper replacement, thereby providing enhanced economy and environmental protection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the detachable, articulated connection of a wiper blade (14) for cleaning windows, in particular of motor vehicles, to a wiper arm (12) driven on one end, which is provided with a first coupling half (26) on its other, particularly, its free end (13) and a connecting device (24) featuring a second wiper-blade-mounted coupling half (28), which is arranged on the upper band side (23) of a band-like, long-stretched-out, elastic supporting element (22), on whose other, lower band surface, (21) a rubber-elastic wiper strip (20) that can be placed on the window (19) is situated, and the wiper-blade-mounted coupling half (28) has a pivot pin (46) aligned transverse to the wiper blade's longitudinal extension and transverse to the placement direction (arrow 18) to connect to the wiper arm (12), whose longitudinal axis forms the articulation axis (17) of the device and which is allocated to a pin rest receptacle (62) present on the wiper-arm-mounted coupling half (26).

Abstract: A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for an oscillation wiper arm, wherein the oscillating arm is pivotally connected to the connecting device about a pivot axis near one end. The end of the oscillating wiper arm has an at least substantially U-shaped cross-section and the connecting device is at least partly positioned within the end of the oscillating arm. The end of the oscillating arm is provided, at the location of the pivot axis, with a shaft extending between the legs of the U-shaped cross-section. The shaft is pivotally engaged in the connecting device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wiper blade for wiping a windshield of a motor vehicle, and more particularly, to a so-called flat blade wiper which can be connected to a wiper arm without a primary and a secondary yokes. The wiper blade assembly comprises a flexible elongated wiper strip that includes opposite longitudinal grooves and comes into close contact with a windshield of the vehicle; a rail spring including rail portions disposed in the opposite grooves of the wiper strip; an elastic support member that extends along a longitudinal direction of the wiper strip and includes a plurality of openings; and a connection member which includes an inserting portion inserted in the opening of the elastic support member for connection with the elastic support member and a claw for holding both the wiper strip and the rail spring.

Abstract: A wiper blade is proposed which is used to clean windows, especially of motor vehicles. The wiper blade is displaceable transversely to its length, preferably about a pendulum axis, and can be pressed with an elongated, rubber-elastic wiper strip (46) against the window (54) to be wiped; the wiper strip is disposed on the lower band face (49), oriented toward the window, of a bandlike-elongated, spring-elastic support element (42). Chattering that occurs during wiping operation and causes an unsatisfactory outcome of wiping as well as considerable noise, is avoided if the region of the upper band face (43), remote from the window, of the support element (42), the wiper blade is provided with a mass body, which is disposed movably, at least in the displacement direction (74) of the wiper blade.

Abstract: A wiper blade is proposed, which is for cleaning for windows, particularly of motor vehicles. The wiper blade (10) has an elongated, rubber-elastic wiper strip (14), which can be placed against the window (22) and is connected to an elongated, spring-elastic support element (12) so that their longitudinal axes are parallel, which support element (12) is directly connected to a device (16) for connecting the wiper blade to a driven wiper arm (18).

Abstract: A motor vehicle windscreen wiper of the type with a windscreen wiper brush which is articulated to a windscreen wiper arm. Moreover, the inventive wiper is of the type in which a connector is inserted longitudinally, from rear to front, inside the front end of the arm, said front end being bent back. Moreover, the connector, which is disposed between the arm and a brush component, has an elastically-deformable element that is used to block said connector in the inserted position. Furthermore, the wiper is of the type in which the connector includes two longitudinal edges which are received between two lateral flanges of the brush component. The invention is characterised in that it includes a safety clasp which is movably mounted between a closed position, in which said clasp extends opposite the blocking element in order to lock the connector in the inserted position, and an open position, which is used to release said connector.

Abstract: A wiper device with a wiper blade for cleaning windows of motor vehicles, in which the wiper blade can be moved back and forth laterally to its longitudinal span by a driven wipe arm which can be connected to the wiper blade and loads the same against the window. The wiper blade has an elongated wiper strip that can be placed against the window and an elongated spring-elastic carrying element, which has a connecting unit for the wiper arm and is disposed parallel to the longitudinal axis of the wiper strip to distribute a contact force over the entire wiper strip length. A particularly effective and low-noise operation of the wiper system is achieved because the contact force of the wiper strip against the window is greater in its center section than in at least one of two end sections of the wiper strip.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device to connect a wiper arm (12) to a wiper blade (14) featuring a supporting element (16) holding a wiper strip (20) on which a base element (30, 60) is fastened as the first part of a coupling device, whereby the wiper arm (12) is embodied to be U-shaped and overlaps the base element (30, 60) with its U-shape and whereby holding means (42, 72) are embodied on the wiper arm (12) within its U-shape, which holding means form a second part of a coupling device and cooperate with the first part of the coupling device. It is proposed that the holding means (42, 72) be embodied as articulated means for holding the wiper blade (14) in an articulated manner, which can also transmit a bearing force (44) on the wiper blade (14) to be exerted by the wiper arm (12) on the wiper blade (14) in an operating position and which are at least approximately completely covered by the wiper arm (12).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a windscreen wiper that includes a unitary elongate curved beam and a rubber blade mounted to the beam. The beam has a protective end formation located at at least one of its tips. The end formation comprises a deformed end portion of the beam which projects beyond the end portion of the rubber blade.

Abstract: A wiper blade for cleaning motor vehicles is proposed, which is provided with a band-like, elongated, spring-elastic support element (12). The lower band surface (13) of the support element (12) oriented toward the window (22) has an elongated, rubber-elastic wiper strip (14), which can be placed against the window (22), disposed on it so that the longitudinal axes of these two parts are parallel and the upper band surface (11) of the support element (12) has a wind deflection strip (42) disposed on it, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the support element, is provided with an attack surface (54) oriented toward the main flow of the relative wind, and is comprised of an elastic material.

Abstract: A wiper system is proposed, which is used to clean windows, in particular of motor vehicles. The wiper system has a driven wiper arm (12), guided on the motor vehicle and movable between two turning points, on whose free end (14), a pivot bolt (36) retained thereon is disposed, whose pivot axis (38) extends transversely to the longitudinal axis of the wiper arm, essentially in the direction of motion (double arrow 22) of the wiper arm (12), on which pivot bolt a wiper blade (16) is supported that can be pivoted about the pivot axis (38) and pressed against the window (28), and the wiper system has means for securing the wiper blade to the pivot bolt, which means have stop faces (78), (86) disposed on the wiper blade transversely to the pivot axis and spaced apart from one another and pointing away from one another, which fittingly engage between securing faces (80, 81), facing one another, of the wiper arm (12).

Abstract: A wiper blade is proposed, which is used for cleaning windows, particularly of motor vehicles. The wiper blade (10) has an elongated, rubber-elastic wiper strip (14), which can be placed against the window (22) and is connected in a longitudinally parallel fashion to an elongated, spring-elastic support element (12), which has a connecting device (16) for a wiper arm (18).

Abstract: A proposed wiper blade serves to clean the windshields of motor vehicles. The wiper blade (10) has an elongated rubber-elastic wiping strip which can be placed in contact against the windshield to be wiped and which is held substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis at an elongated, springing-elastic carrying element (12). A connection device (16) for complementing connection means of a driven wiper arm (18) which are loaded toward the windshield is arranged at the center portion of the carrying element (12). The connection device has two stop surfaces (36) which are located at a distance from one another, extend transverse to the driving direction, are parallel to one another and oriented in planes extending vertical to the windshield, and cooperate with counter-stops of the wiper arm.

Abstract: A wiper blade for wiping windows of motor vehicles has an elongated rubber-elastic wiper strip placeable on a window to be wiped and arranged substantially longitudinally axially parallel on a surface of a strip-shaped, spring-elastic support element which is connected with a wiper arm which is spring loaded toward the window and driven transversely to a longitudinal extension of the wiper blade, and a leading-edge face extending longitudinally of the wiper blade and substantially parallel to the window and facing into a wind so as to form an acute angle with the window.

Abstract: A wiper blade (10) for windows, in particular of motor vehicles, is proposed that is equipped with a long, rubber-elastic wiper strip (14) that can be placed against the window (22), that is situated parallel to the longitudinal axis on a long, spring-elastic carrier element (12) to which a component (16) belonging to a device for attaching the wiper blade (10) to a driven wiper arm (18) is directly connected, whereby the carrier element (12) has springs (28, 30) designed in the shape of a strap lying in front of the window (22) in a plane that is basically parallel to the window, the bottom surfaces of the strap (13) of which face the window, the inner, adjacent longitudinal edges (32) of which have a distance between them and plunge individually into longitudinal grooves (54, 56) assigned to each longitudinal edge and open toward the longitudinal side of the wiper strip, and that are connected to each other by way of at least two transverse ribs (36) situated in the longitudinal direction with distance betw

Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade for windshields, especially automobile windshields, comprising at least one support element, a support element (12), a wiper strip (14) and connecting means (16) for a wiper arm (18). The support element (12) is a long flat rod to which the wiper strip (14) and the connecting means (16) are fixed. According to the invention, the flat rod has a cross-sectional profile (40), whereby Fwf*L2/48*E*Izz<0.009 when Fwf is the pressure force exerted on the wiper blade or the pressure force for which the wiper blade was originally intended, L represents the length of the wiper blade, E stands for the elasticity module of the flat rod material and Izz is the moment of inertia of the cross-sectional profile around the z axis (perpendicular to an s axis associated with the flat rod and perpendicular to the y axis).

Abstract: In the case of a wiper blade for cleaning glass surfaces on vehicles, and having an elongated wiper blade body which consists of a flexible rubber material and can be placed against the glass and is furnished on both its longitudinal sides with longitudinal grooves situated opposite to each other, in which a support or spring spline extending in the longitudinal direction of the wiper strip engages with part of its width, a profiled cover is mounted on and attached to the part of at least one support spline projecting beyond the wiper blade body covering this support spline.

Abstract: A windscreen wiper includes an elongate curved backbone which is of a resiliently flexible material having a Young's modulus of between 50 to 350 GPa. The backbone has a substantially spatially consolidated cross-sectional profile at substantially all points along its length, and the magnitude of the width at substantially the widest point along the backbone, Wm (expressed in millimeters) is at most (?8.89.10?5*E+0.05378)*L?5.25, where L is the total length of the backbone expressed in millimeters and E is the Young's modulus of the backbone material expressed in GPa. The invention also provides a relationship between the thickness and the length of the backbone.

Abstract: An improved windshield wiper is described having a pair of squeegees and a brush disposed between said squeegees. The single-piece molded frame of the wiper includes openings along the frame back that are adapted to create a vacuum when the vehicle is moving. The brush spine is preferably perforated such that fluid is drawn from the windshield, into the brush bristles and out through the brush spine perforations and openings, when air passing over the wiper causes a vacuum between said squeegees.

Abstract: A connecting arrangement of a lever is rotatably connected to a wiper arm. Arms of the lever are located on longitudinal sides, respectively, of the connecting arrangement and extend in the longitudinal direction of a wiper strip. Each arm of the lever includes a holding portion, which is provided in a longitudinal distal end of the arm to hold the wiper strip together with backing plates. The holding portion of each arm of the lever is positioned in an intermediate location between the connecting arrangement and a corresponding longitudinal end of the wiper strip.