Patent ID: 7055206
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: B60S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing a windscreen wiper device, comprising forming opposing longitudinal grooves in the longitudinal sides of an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped; fitting longitudinal strips of a carrier element in the grooves in spaced-apart relationship to one another; interconnecting neighboring ends of the longitudinal strips by a respective connecting piece; pivotally connecting an oscillating arm to a connecting device of the windscreen wiper device about a pivot axis near one end thereof, wherein the end of the oscillating wiper arm has an at least substantially U-shaped cross-section, and with the connecting device being at least partly positioned within the one end of the oscillating arm; providing the one end of the oscillating arm, at the location of the pivot axis, with at least one shaft extending between spaced legs of the U-shaped one end, with the shaft pivotally engaging the connecting device; pivotally mounting the shaft in at least one correspondingly shaped recess in the connecting device while interposing at least one joint part between said at least one shaft and said at least one correspondingly shaped recess; dimensioning the shaft such that it can be passed freely through an insertion opening of the recess from an at least substantially perpendicular position of the oscillating arm with respect to the wiper blade and be locked in position in the recess from at an least substantially parallel position of the oscillating wiper arm with respect to the wiper blade.