Wiper blade for motor vehicle windshield wipers

US5509166A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Wagner · Bühl, DE
• Hubert Verelst · Tienen, BE
• Dirk Nys · Tielt-Winge, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 11, 1994
• Grant date: Apr 23, 1996
• Expiry date: Jul 11, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60S1/3806
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wiper blade for motor vehicle windshields, comprises a support having an elongated U-shaped main bracket with two spaced ends, and further brackets pivotally connected with the ends and each having a claw pair at their end, an elongated, rubber elastic wiper strip adapted to abut against a windshield and having longitudinal sides engaged by the claw pairs, a spoiler adapted to extend toward the windshield and arranged on a side of the main bracket toward which traveling wind flows predominantly, the main bracket has two legs and a base wall connecting the legs with one another and provided with throughgoing openings, the throughgoing openings extending in one of the legs of the main bracket which faces away from the spoiler.