Patent ID: 7634833

Claim:
A windscreen wiper assembly, comprising: a wiper member having a wiper blade element and a carrier supporting said wiper blade element and including a pivot; an oscillating arm; a joint part that is joined to said pivot to establish a pivot connection between said joint part and said wiper member about a pivot axis of said pivot and having a generally U-shaped cross section at the location of the pivot connection; said oscillating arm having a substantially U-shaped cross section with a base and two side walls extending downwardly from said base; said joint part being received within said oscillating arm and including a resilient tongue received in a corresponding hole provided in said oscillating arm; said side walls of said oscillating arm including inwardly bent edges that extend from a lower longitudinal free edge of said side walls and wrap beneath longitudinal sides of said joint part, and said joint part including outwardly projecting protrusions formed along said longitudinal sides of said joint part adjacent said bent edges of said oscillating arm and extending beneath said longitudinal lower edges of said side walls.