Patent ID: 7263741

Claim:
A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element comprising a pair of resilient longitudinal strips biased in a normally curved condition and each having distal ends, 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 the longitudinal strips of the carrier element are disposed in a spaced-apart parallel condition, wherein the neighboring ends of said longitudinal strips are interconnected by a respective connecting piece so as to fix the longitudinal strips together as a unit, which windscreen wiper device comprises a central connecting device for an oscillating wiper arm directly affixed to each of the longitudinal strips generally mid-way between their neighboring ends, wherein said oscillating arm is pivotally connected to said central connecting device about a pivot axis near one end of the oscillating arm, characterized in that the end of the oscillating wiper arm includes two at least substantially cylindrical protrusions, which form bearing surfaces, centered at the pivot axis, which protrusions extend in lateral direction with respect to the oscillating wiper arm and are spaced directly over each of the longitudinal strips, so that forces exerted on said bearing surfaces will be widely distributed through the central connecting device and into the longitudinal strips of the carrier element.