Patent ID: 6363569
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
An apparatus for connecting a wiper blade for windows of motor vehicles to a driven wiper arm guided on one end on a motor vehicle, with a free end of the wiper arm being pivotably connectable to a support element for an elongated, rubber-elastic wiper strip that can be applied to a window, the apparatus has connection means of the wiper blade including one journal protruding from each of long sides of the support element, with a common longitudinal axis of both journals located transversely to a length of the support element in a plane parallel to the window, each of the journals engaging a bearing recess of the wiper arm, which recess forms connection means of the wiper arm, each of the journals being introducible via a respective mounting channel that is open at an edge of the wiper arm and opens into the bearing recess, each of the journals being formed of at least two spaced-apart, elastically deflectable journal parts, and a width of each mounting channel being less than a least journal dimension of the spaced journal parts measured transversely to a longitudinal journal axis.