Structure of Window Opening of Car Door

• US 20090064594A1
• Filed: 08/03/2006
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Sakanoue, Kenichi, Kimoto, Tohru
• Granted Patent: US 7,874,104 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/489.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/10 fixedly mounted B60J1/085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/78 adjacent to corner pieces, mirror supports or quarter windows
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0402 window frame details, including sash guides and glass runs
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0411 Beltline

Abstract

According to the invention, a car door has a window opening defined by an upward part extending from a rear upper end of a door panel and a sash assembly; a stationary panel fitted in a rear window opening defined by the sash assembly and a center sash; a curved edge of the upward part defines a bottom of the window opening; and a weather strip including a part engaging a periphery of the stationary panel, attached to the periphery of the window opening, serving as a seal, and having an inner lip extending from an inner edge of the part engaging the periphery of the stationary panel and an outer lip extending toward and being in contact with an external part of the curved edge of the outer panel.

Claims

1. A structure of a window opening for a car door, wherein the window opening is defined by an upward part extending from a rear upper end of a panel of the car door;

a sash assembly is placed above a belt line of an essential part of the car door;

a center sash is placed at a rear part of the window opening;

a bottom of the window opening is defined by a curved edge of the upward part;

a stationary panel is fitted in the rear part of the window opening; and

a weather strip including a part engaging a periphery of the stationary window panel is attached to the periphery of the window opening, serves as a seal, and has an inner lip extending from an inner edge of the part engaging the periphery of the stationary panel and an outer lip extending toward and being in contact with an external part of the curved edge of the outer panel.

2. The structure according to claim 1, wherein at a part where the weather strip faces with the center sash, a shape of the outer lip of the weather strip matches with an external shape of a rear end of a belt line outer molding upstream of the center sash.

3. The structure according to claim 1, wherein at the part where the weather strip faces with the center sash, a shape of the inner lip of the weather strip matches with an external shape of an rear end of a belt line inner molding upstream of the center sash.