Wiper apparatus

A wiper apparatus which removes foreign matters from a windshield via rotating by a pivot of a vehicle, the wiper apparatus comprising:

• an arm piece connected to one end of an arm retainer, said arm piece for connection to a wiper blade,
• wherein a coupling portion of the arm piece has a step portion and is formed to extend along a longitudinal direction so that an upper surface of the arm retainer forms a substantially continuous surface with an upper surface of the arm piece when the coupling portion is inserted into a coupling hole formed in the arm retainer in a longitudinal direction of the arm retainer, and
• wherein a curling plate is formed at the arm retainer to extend from the arm retainer in a direction of the arm piece on a lower side of the coupling hole and contacts and compresses the arm piece, thereby tightening and fixing a lower portion of the step portion through a compression process therebetween, in a state in which the coupling portion of the arm piece is inserted into the coupling hole of the arm retainer;
• a U-shape elastic hook having a pair of hook portions at one end thereof, wherein the elastic hook connects a spring, connected to an arm retainer side rivet mounted in the arm retainer, to an arm head side rivet mounted in an arm head, and the hook is hooked to the arm head side rivet at an end of the arm head by the hook portions so that an overall appearance including the spring is not exposed to a lower outside of the arm retainer, the spring generating an elastic restoring force to bias the arm retainer towards the windshield;
• and
• a lock-back device for acting against the elastic restoring force to hold the arm retainer away from the windshield in a lock-back position, the lock-back device having a retention force of a greater magnitude than the elastic restoring force, wherein the lock-back device includes a catching opening formed in an edge of the arm head, an entrance to the catching opening includes protrusions therein that extends towards one another to define a reduce width entrance to the catching opening, and wherein the protrusions engage spaced leg portions of the U-shaped elastic hook in the lock-back positon to retain the U-shaped elastic hook in the catching opening.