Glass run

• US 10,150,356 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2017
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Yoshitaka, Tajima, Yuzo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelly, Catherine A
• Application Number:
  US15/426,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20170260788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/17 vertically
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/265 the surface being primarily decorative
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/76 for window sashes; for glass run channels
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/88 mounted on, or integral with, the glass-run seals
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/04 External Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices thereon fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows

Abstract

A glass run capable of reducing protrusions in surfaces thereof to the minimum, and preventing peeling of an exterior decorative member. The glass run includes a trim section and a glass run section. An outer side wall of the glass run section is formed integrally with a bottom wall of the trim section, and an exterior decorative member is attached to an exterior side surface of the glass run continuously from an upper end of the bottom wall of the trim section to a lower end of the outer side wall so as to cover the exterior side surface. An exterior lower reinforcing member formed of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer and exhibiting rigidity larger than that of the outer side wall is integrally formed in the lower end of the outer side wall so as to be bonded to an interior side surface of a lower end part of the exterior decorative member.

Claims

1. A glass run adapted to be attached to a door frame of an automobile for sealing between the door frame and a door glass, comprising:

a trim section configured to attach to a flange in a tip end of the door frame of the automobile, and

a glass run section formed integrally with the trim section and configured to attach to an inner periphery of the door frame for sealing between the door frame and the door glass,

the glass run section has a length extending along the inner periphery of the door frame, includes an outer side wall, an inner side wall and a bottom wall, and has a width with a generally U-shaped cross-section, the outer side wall and the inner sidewall of the glass run section each having a respective tip end, and an outer seal lip and an inner seal lip respectively extending from the tip ends of the outer side wall and the inner side wall obliquely in an interior space of the glass run section,

the trim section is formed of a hard material, includes one side wall located on and extending integrally alongside the glass run section, another side wall located on a side of an automobile body and a bottom wall, and has a width with a generally U-shaped cross-section, the one side wall of the trim section and the bottom wall of the glass run section are integrally formed,

the outer side wall of the glass run section and the bottom wall of the trim section are integrally formed with each other, an exterior decorative member is attached to an exterior side surface of the glass run continuously from an upper end of the bottom wall of the trim section to a lower end of the outer side wall and covers the exterior side surface, and

an exterior lower reinforcing member formed of an olefin thermoplastic elastomer is integrally formed on the lower end of the outer side wall and bonded to an interior side surface of a lower end part of the exterior decorative member such that the exterior decorative member covers an exterior facing surface of the exterior lower reinforcing member and bonded to the outer seal lip such that the exterior lower reinforcing member covers an exterior facing surface of the outer seal lip, a rigidity of the exterior lower reinforcing member is larger than a rigidity of the outer side wall.

2. The glass run as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cross-sectional area of the exterior lower reinforcing member ranges from 1 to 2.5 mm².

3. The glass run as claimed in claim 1, wherein the exterior decorative member is a decorative tape exhibiting metallic luster.

4. The glass run as claimed ire claim 1, wherein the rigidity of the exterior reinforcing member exhibits an international rubber hardness (IRHD) ranging from 95 to 100, and the rigidity of the material of the outer side wall exhibits an international rubber hardness (IRHD) ranging from 85 to 90.

5. The glass run as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outer side wall and the bottom wall of the glass run section are formed of the hard material, whereas the inner side wall, the outer seal lip and the inner seal lip are formed of a soft material, and the bottom wall of the glass run section has a bottom seal lip formed of a soft material, the soft material being a member selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic elastomer and a sponge rubber.