Patent ID: 8544138
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
1. A windscreen wiper device, particularly for automobiles, comprising an elongated wiper blade, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which windscreen wiper device further comprises a connecting device for an oscillating arm, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected with its first end to said connecting device and with its second end to a mounting head mountable on a drive shaft, and wherein said oscillating arm is provided with a longitudinally extending base and two spaced-apart sidewalls extending outwardly along opposite sides of said base to form a tube having an open face, said oscillating arm is produced integrally from a single sheet material, wherein said oscillating arm includes an intermediate part forming said tube, an end part integral therewith, having a substantially U-shaped cross-section and being detachably connected to said connecting device through a bayonet connection, as well as another end part integral therewith, having a substantially U-shaped cross-section and being connected to said mounting head, wherein outboard edges of said sidewalls of said tube are folded inwardly towards each other to partially close said open face of said tube, wherein a longitudinal slot is formed between said outboard edges, and wherein said open face of said tube has a width varying between 8 mm and 20 mm.