Patent ID: 7810206

Claim:
A wiper blade to clean windshields, provided with an elongated belt-shaped, flexible spring support element, with a separate first component designed as an elastic rubber wiper strip that can be pressed against the windshield located at a bottom belt surface of the support element and with a separate second component located at an upper belt surface of the support element that is designed as a wind deflection strip that extends at least along a longitudinal section of the wiper blade, characterized in that the two components are connected together at their sides facing one another, and characterized in that the wind deflection strip has two diverging sides as seen in cross section that are connected together at a common base, the free ends of said sides that face the support element being supported off of the wiper blade, that at the inner wall of one of the two sides is one of a positive and a negative profile shape, and a portion of the wiper strip defines the other of the positive and the negative profile shape, the positive profile shape mating with the negative profile shape, and wherein the wind deflection strip extends along at least half of a length of the wiper blade.