Patent ID: 8544136

Claim:
A wiper blade ( 10 ) for an automobile windshield ( 14 ), with an elongated belt-shaped, flexible resilient support element ( 12 ) having a longitudinal axis, on a lower belt surface ( 22 ) of which that faces the windshield is located an elastic rubber wiper strip ( 24 ) sitting against the windshield that extends parallel to the longitudinal axis, and on an upper belt surface ( 16 ) of which a wind deflection strip ( 42 or 112 ) is located that has an incident surface ( 54 or 140 ) facing a main flow direction of a driving wind (arrow 52 ), said deflection strip extending in the longitudinal direction of the support element, characterized in that the wind deflection strip has two sides ( 48 , 50 or 136 , 138 ) that diverge from a common base point ( 46 or 134 ) as seen in a cross section, and that the incident surface ( 54 or 140 ) is located at the exterior of one side ( 50 or 138 ), wherein the support element has outer edges, wherein the sides of the wind deflection strip have respective free ends having thereon respective claw-shaped extensions that fittingly grip around the outer edges of the support element at least in sections and engage at least one of the upper belt surface ( 24 ) and the lower belt surface ( 22 ), so that the wind deflection strip can be snapped onto the outer edges or slid onto the outer edges in a longitudinal direction, wherein the wind deflection strip has a height extending from the base point to ends of the sides farthest from the base point, wherein a substantial majority of the height is above the upper belt surface in a direction facing away from the windshield, and characterized in that the wind deflection strip is designed as a binary component whose longitudinal area provided with the claw-shaped extensions is made of a harder material than a longitudinal area lying closer to the base point.