Patent ID: 8499408
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
1. A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes opposing longitudinal grooves on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves spaced-apart longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for an oscillating arm, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to said connecting device about a pivot axis near one end, wherein said connecting device comprises at least two parts provided with protrusion/hole means for detachably connecting said parts together, wherein the first part is retained onto the wiper blade and wherein the second part has an at least substantially U-shaped cross-section at the location of its connection to said first part, wherein said windscreen wiper device is provided with first and second retaining means for retaining said connecting device onto said oscillating arm, wherein said first retaining means comprises at least one first protrusion on the second part engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in said oscillating arm, and wherein said second retaining means comprise at least one second protrusion provided on the first part engaging the oscillating arm, wherein said first part is positioned at least substantially within said second part and that said second protrusion engages into a correspondingly shaped hole with a closed circumference provided on the oscillating arm or into a correspondingly shaped hole with an open circumference provided on a longitudinal side of the oscillating arm or into a correspondingly shaped recess provided on the oscillating arm.