Patent ID: 7523520
Filing Date: 2009-04-28
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
1. A windshield wiper apparatus comprising a wiper blade ( 16 ) for cleaning a motor vehicle window ( 28 ), the wiper blade including a band-like, elongated, elastic supporting element ( 30 ) having a longitudinal middle area, a coupling part on the longitudinal middle area, the coupling part connecting the wiper blade to a wiper arm ( 12 ), the wiper blade also including a lower band surface ( 31 ) having thereon a elongated, rubber elastic wiper strip ( 24 ), and the wiper blade including wind deflector strip partial sections ( 52 ) extending to the ends of the supporting element and arranged on both sides of the coupling part, and the apparatus comprising a cap ( 60 or 160 ) to cover the connection between the wiper blade ( 16 ) and the wiper arm ( 12 ), the cap having cap sections that cover adjacent areas of the wind deflector strip partial sections ( 52 ), the cap sections having a shape complementary to the shape of the wind deflector strip.