US 6,308,373 B1Granted

Wiper blade for motor vehicle windshields

AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH

InventorsWilfried Merkel, Thomas Kotlarski

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Abstract

A wiper blade is proposed, which is used to clean motor vehicle windows. The wiper blade has an elastic, elongated load bearing element for an elongated wiper strip, made of a flexible material, that can be pressed against the window to be washed, which strip, on its long sides, has longitudinal grooves facing one another, in which spaced-apart longitudinal rails of the load bearing element are located, whose middle portion has a connection device for a driven wiper arm, and the cross section of the two longitudinal rails decreases from its middle region out toward the ends of the rails. A wiper blade that is especially easy to mount is obtained if the load bearing element takes the form of a hairpin, the two legs of which form the longitudinal rails, and the free ends of the two longitudinal rails are held together, in particular being joined together, by stabilizing means embodied as a separate component.

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Dependent claims

A wiper blade for motor vehicle windows, comprising an elongated wiper strip adapted to be pressed against a window to be washed, said wiper strip having a wiper strip body and being composed of a fexible material, said wiper strip on its long sides being provided with longitudinal grooves facing one another;

an elastic, elongated load bearing element having space-apart longitudinal rails located in said longitudinal grooves of said wiper strip;
a one piece connection device provided only in a middle portion of said load bearing element for a driven wiper arm and mounted directly to said load bearing element, said connection device having an elongate planar bottom wall defining an upper and lower surface with walls extending upwardly from said upper surface, said lower surface engaging said wiper strip body, each end of said bottom wall having an intermediate clamp thereon extending downwardly which engages said spaced rails, said load bearing element being formed as a hair pin with two legs which form said longitudinal rails having free ends;
stabilizing means holding at least said free ends of said longitudinal rails together and formed as a separate component, said separate component being formed as a first clamp located at said free ends.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.