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Connecting device

  • US 8,931,133 B2
  • Filed: 07/23/2010
  • Issued: 01/13/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A connecting device which has a connecting element (18) of flat beam design fixed to a wiper blade (10) and an adapter (16) joined to said connecting element in an articulated manner and also a joining element (14) that is joined to a wiper arm (12), the adapter (16) being inserted into a u-shaped cross sectional profile of said joining element and being fixed by means of a spring tongue (64) arranged on a top wall (42) of the adapter to a pushbutton (66), wherein the connecting element (18) has a central web (28) running in a longitudinal direction of the wiper blade (10) and bearing a hinge shaft (30) projecting on long sides of the web, which hinge shaft is mounted in laterally flexible hubs (46) in side walls (40) of the adapter (16), characterized in that outwardly facing walls of said adapter (16), namely the side walls (40), the top wall (42) and end walls (36, 62), have a general wall thickness of at least two millimeters, and the hubs (46) are formed as blind holes, cylindrical surfaces of which form radial sliding surfaces (48) and end faces of which form axial sliding surfaces (50) and close the blind holes, which are highly polished with an arithmetic mean roughness of Ra<

  • 0.2μ

    , and in that the sliding surfaces (48, 50) are the sole contact surfaces between said connecting element (18) and said adapter (16).

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