Patent ID: 6327739
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
A wiper device for windows of motor vehicles, having an elongated, driven wiper arm (10) guided at one end on the motor vehicle, on whose other free end section an elongated wiper blade (14), which can be placed on the window, is hinged so it can oscillate in a longitudinal axially parallel manner and around a pivot axis (44) oriented transversely to the longitudinal axes, wherein a section of the wiper blade (14) is guided between two legs (34, 36), which are arranged at a distance from each other, of a connecting device (12), which is U-shaped in cross section, the hinge means of the wiper blade (14) cooperate with hinge means of the wiper blade connecting device (12) arranged on one end of a wiper blade connecting rod (16), and the connecting rod (16) is provided at its other end with a first hinge element (18) which is a part of a tilt hinge (20), on whose other second hinge element (22) the drive means (24) of the wiper device act, wherein the wiper arm connecting rod (16) and the connecting device (12) for the wiper blade (14) have been produced in one piece from a sheet metal plate, and in a region of the wiper arm connecting rod (16) said metal plate is folded in two layers which define parallel planar surfaces in contact with one another.