Windscreen wiper device
View Patent ↗A windscreen wiper device, includes an elongated wiper blade of flexible material which includes one groove, in which groove a strip is disposed, wherein said windscreen wiper device includes a connecting device for connecting said wiper blade to an oscillating arm and wherein said wiper blade includes a spoiler, said connecting device includes connecting parts, wherein said spoiler is sandwiched between said connecting parts when said connecting parts are connected to each other.
1. A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, 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 is of the flat blade type and includes at least one groove, in which groove a longitudinal strip of the carrier element is disposed, wherein said windscreen wiper device further comprises a connecting device for detachably connecting said wiper blade to a wiper arm wherein said wiper blade comprises a spoiler at a side thereof facing away from a windscreen to be wiped, wherein said connecting device comprises connecting parts formed as separate constructional elements, wherein said spoiler is sandwiched between said connecting parts when they are connected to each other, thereby allowing said connecting parts to engage said spoiler on opposite sides thereof in order to block any lateral movement between said longitudinal strip and said wiper blade at the location of their interconnection and between said connecting device and said wiper blade at the location of their interconnection, wherein said connecting parts and said spoiler are provided with co-axial transverse through holes at the location of their interconnection, and wherein said connecting parts and said spoiler are connected together by means of a pin extending through said through holes.
2. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 1 , wherein said connecting parts are assymmetrical with respect to a middle longitudinal plane of said connecting device.
3. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 1 , wherein said pin is a screw.
4. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 1 , wherein said connecting parts are provided with inwardly extending protrusions comprising said through holes, wherein a protrusion of the one connecting part extends inside a protrusion of the other connecting part.
5. The windscreen wiper device according claim 1 , wherein the connecting parts comprise legs having inwardly bent edges at their outer ends, said legs being connected to the flexible material of said wiper blade on opposite sides thereof, wherein said legs are provided with two pairs of opposite protrusions near the outer ends of said connecting device, and wherein said protrusions extend laterally inwardly for exerting only a transverse force on the flexible material of said wiper blade, thereby locally squeezing said flexible material onto said longitudinal strip, in order to block any lateral movement between said longitudinal strip and said wiper blade at the location of their interconnection.
6. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 5 , wherein the ratio (1/L) between the width L′ of said flexible material at the location of said protrusions and the width L of said flexible material at the location outside said protrusions varies between 30% and 1%.
7. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 1 , including an oscillating arm provided with an extension comprising a pivot pin pivoted about a pivot axis, as well as a L-shaped shoulder securing said connecting device on the pivot pin, wherein said L-shaped shoulder projects out in the direction of said pivot pin and across said wiper blade and at the free end of which is disposed a leg facing said windscreen to be wiped, and wherein said connecting device comprises a transverse through hole for receiving said pivot pin.
8. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 1 wherein said connecting device includes a joint part, and wherein said joint part is detachably connected to said connecting device by engaging protrusions of said connecting device, at the location of said pivot axis, in recesses provided in said joint part.
9. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 8 , wherein the protrusions extend outwards on either side of said connecting device.
10. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 8 , wherein said joint part comprises at least one resilient tongue engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in a base of a U-shaped cross-section of an oscillating arm, and wherein said resilient tongue is rotatable along a hinge axis between an outward position for retaining said wiper blade onto an oscillating arm and an inward position releasing said wiper blade from the oscillating arm.
11. The windscreen wiper device according to claim 1 , further a connecting piece positioned on both ends of said wiper blade and connected to an end of said longitudinal strip.