Method of assembling door parts on automobile door

• US 20070262607A1
• Filed: 04/03/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Saito, Katsushi
• Application Number:
  US11/732,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20070262607A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/146.200
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/248 having two or more tubular cavities, e.g. formed by partition walls
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/30 characterised by the fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/45 Assembling sealing arrangements with vehicle parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/76 for window sashes; for glass run channels
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/78 adjacent to corner pieces, mirror supports or quarter windows
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/87 with additional seals on the panel side
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/88 mounted on, or integral with, the glass-run seals
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0402 window frame details, including sash guides and glass runs
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0406 window frame formed separately as module
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 65/02 Joining sub-units or components to, or positioning sub-units or components with respect to, body shell or other sub-units or components

Abstract

There is provided a method of assembling door parts on an automobile door, said door parts including: a glass run mounted on a roof side and a pillar side, which has a ditch part formed therein for guiding lifting or lowering of a door glass and provided with lips slidably brought into contact with the door glass; a roof molding; a pillar molding; and a belt line molding to be mounted along a belt line, comprising the steps of: connecting an upper end part of said pillar molding having said glass run mounted therein to a rear end part of said roof molding having said glass run mounted therein and connecting said belt line molding both to a front end part of said roof molding and a lower end part of said pillar molding, thereby assembling a modularized product in advance; and assembling said modularized product on the front door in a vehicle assembly line.

Claims

1. A method of assembling door parts on a front door with a sash, said door parts including:

a glass run mounted on a roof side and a pillar side, which has a ditch part formed therein for guiding lifting or lowering of a door glass and provided with lips slidably brought into contact with the door glass;

a decorative roof molding covering said roof side from an outer-cabin side;

a decorative pillar molding covering said pillar side from the outer-cabin side; and

a decorative belt line molding to be mounted along a belt line, comprising the steps of;

connecting an upper end part of said pillar molding having said glass run mounted therein to a rear end part of said roof molding having said glass run mounted therein and connecting said belt line molding both to a front end part of said roof molding and a lower end part of said pillar molding, thereby assembling a modularized product in advance; and

assembling said modularized product on the front door by fitting the roof molding and the pillar molding along the door sash and the belt line molding along the belt line in a vehicle assembly line.

5. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said glass run includes a cross-section roughly U-shaped installation base member consisting of an outer-cabin side wall, a bottom wall and an inner-cabin side wall;

each of said roof molding and said pillar molding are integrally molded with a cross-section roughly U-shaped channel part having the installation base member of said glass run fitted therein; and

said roof molding and said pillar molding are assembled on an outer-cabin side of a mounting surface of the door sash, formed roughly in parallel with a surface of the door glass, in an assembly of said modularized product.

6. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

7. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

21. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

25. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

2. A method of assembling door parts on a front door with a sash, said door parts including:

a glass run mounted on a roof side and a pillar side, which has a ditch part formed therein for guiding lifting or lowering of a door glass and provided with lips slidably brought into contact with the door glass;

a decorative roof molding covering said roof side from an outer-cabin side; and

a decorative pillar molding covering said pillar side from the outer-cabin side, comprising the steps of;

connecting an upper end part of said pillar molding having said glass run mounted therein to a rear end part of said roof molding having said glass run mounted therein, thereby assembling a modularized product in advance; and

assembling said modularized product on the front door by fitting the roof molding and the pillar molding along the door sash in a vehicle assembly line.

9. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

said glass run includes a cross-section roughly U-shaped installation base member consisting of an outer-cabin side wall, a bottom wall and an inner-cabin side wall;

each of said roof molding and said pillar molding are integrally molded with a cross-section roughly U-shaped channel part having the installation base member of said glass run fitted therein; and

said roof molding and said pillar molding are assembled on an outer-cabin side of a mounting surface of the door sash, formed roughly in parallel with a surface of the door glass, in an assembly of said modularized product.

12. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

15. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

22. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 9, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

26. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 9, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

3. A method of assembling door parts on a rear door with a sash, said door parts including:

a glass run mounted on a roof side and a pillar side, which has a ditch part formed therein for guiding lifting or lowering of a door glass and provided with lips slidably brought into contact with the door glass;

a decorative roof molding covering said roof side from an outer-cabin side;

a decorative pillar molding covering said pillar side from the outer-cabin side; and

a decorative belt line molding to be mounted along a belt line, comprising the steps of;

connecting an upper end part of said pillar molding having said glass run mounted therein to a front end part of said roof molding having said glass run mounted therein and connecting said belt line molding both to a rear end part of said roof molding and a lower end part of said pillar molding, thereby assembling a modularized product in advance; and

inserting the door glass into a panel of said rear door, pressing down the modularized product from an upper side of the door glass so as to insert an upper part of said door glass into the glass run on the roof side and assembling the modularized product on the rear door by fitting the belt line molding along the belt line and the roof molding and the pillar molding along the door sash in a vehicle assembly line.

10. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said glass run includes a cross-section roughly U-shaped installation base member consisting of an outer-cabin side wall, a bottom wall and an inner-cabin side wall;

each of said roof molding and said pillar molding are integrally molded with a cross-section roughly U-shaped channel part having the installation base member of said glass run fitted therein; and

said roof molding and said pillar molding are assembled on an outer-cabin side of a mounting surface of the door sash, formed roughly in parallel with a surface of the door glass, in an assembly of said modularized product.

13. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

17. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

23. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 10, wherein:

said root molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

27. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 10, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

4. A method of assembling door parts on a rear door with a sash, said door parts including:

a glass run mounted on a roof side and a pillar side, which has a ditch part formed therein for guiding lifting or lowering of a door glass and provided with lips slidably brought into contact with the door glass;

a decorative roof molding covering said roof side from an outer-cabin side; and

a decorative pillar molding covering said pillar side from the outer-cabin side, comprising the steps of;

connecting an upper end part of said pillar molding having said glass run mounted therein to a front end part of said roof molding having said glass run mounted therein, thereby assembling a modularized product in advance; and

inserting the door glass into a panel of said rear door, pressing down the modularized product from an upper side of the door glass so as to insert an upper part of said door glass into the glass run on the roof side and assembling the modularized product on the rear door by fitting the roof molding and the pillar molding along the door sash in a vehicle assembly line.

11. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

said glass run includes a cross-section roughly U-shaped installation base member consisting of an outer-cabin side wall, a bottom wall and an inner-cabin side wall;

each of said roof molding and said pillar molding are integrally molded with a cross-section roughly U-shaped channel part having the installation base member of said glass run fitted therein; and

said roof molding and said pillar molding are assembled on an outer-cabin side of a mounting surface of the door sash, formed roughly in parallel with a surface of the door glass, in an assembly of said modularized product.

14. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

19. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

24. The method of assembling the door, parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 11, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of metal.

28. The method of assembling the door parts on an automobile door as claimed in claim 11, wherein:

said roof molding and said pillar molding are made of resin.

8. (canceled)

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20. (canceled)