SEALING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE DOOR LEAF, METHOD FOR MAKING SAME AND VEHICLE INCLUDING SAME

• US 20100095599A1
• Filed: 03/03/2008
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hutchinson (Welltower, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hutchinson (Welltower, Inc.)
• Inventors: Coldre, Laurent, Laude, Olivier
• Application Number:
  US12/529,250
• Publication Number:
  US 20100095599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/484.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/248 having two or more tubular cavities, e.g. formed by partition walls
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/265 the surface being primarily decorative
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/79 for flush-glass windows, i.e. for windows flush with the vehicle body or the window frame
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/88 mounted on, or integral with, the glass-run seals

Abstract

The invention relates to a sealing system for a door leaf with mobile glazing in a motor vehicle, to a method for making the sealing system, and to a vehicle including same. The invention relates to sealing systems including sealing profiles of the type including sliding and mobile-glazing sweeping seals, which can be used in any type of motor vehicle. The sealing system (105) of the invention for such a mobile-glazing door leaf (103) includes at least: an external fitting having a sliding seal (106a) with an outer trim (110), and an internal fitting for said door leaf including an inner seal (106b) with an inner trim (109), each of said fittings being formed of a single piece that is at least partially moulded. The sealing system is such that it further comprises two respectively inner and outer sweeping seals for the glazing

Claims

1. A sealing system for an openable panel of a door having a movable glass for a motor vehicle, this system comprising at least:

an external strip comprising a channel gasket provided with external trim, and

an internal strip for the openable panel incorporating an internal gasket provided with internal trim,

each of said strips being formed as a one-piece component which is at least partly molded, the system also comprising two wiping gaskets respectively internal and external for the glass which are included in said internal strip and external strip, respectively.

2. The sealing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said external and internal trim pieces is formed in one piece with the rest of the corresponding strip via an adhesive interface.

3. The sealing system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said external strip and/or said internal strip each consist(s) of a mono-injection or bi-injection molded component.

4. The sealing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said external and internal trim pieces is formed in one piece with the rest of the corresponding strip via a mechanical fastening produced by overmolding an insert forming this gasket with an injection-molded material forming the trim.

5. The sealing system as claimed in claim 1, said openable panel comprising a door frame to which said glass is fitted, the system being characterized in that it is able to perform sealing and decorative functions for a hidden frame channel, both:

on the outside of the vehicle, where this system comprises, for the external strip, an external half-channel gasket which is suitable for mounting on said door frame and with which said external trim is formed integrally by molding, and

on the inside of the vehicle, where this system comprises, for the internal strip, said internal trim which is also suitable for mounting on said door frame and which comprises an internal half-channel gasket formed integrally, by molding, with said internal trim.

6. The sealing system as claimed in claim 5, wherein it is able to be fitted to a visible B pillar of the vehicle, in a hidden frame channel.

7. The sealing system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said internal trim is approximately U-sectioned, with one arm extended by said internal half-channel gasket which forms a sealing lip designed to press elastically against an internal face of said glass.

8. The sealing system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said external trim continues approximately at right angle from said external half-channel gasket in the manner of the top of a “

π

”

whose two legs are designed to grip an axial stub of said frame, and in that said external trim is provided with a sealing lip which continues this top of the “

π

” and

is designed to press elastically against an external face of said glass (103).

9. The sealing system as claimed in claim 5, wherein it is able to be fitted to a non-visible B pillar of the vehicle, in a hidden frame channel.

10. The sealing system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said internal trim is approximately U-sectioned, with a first arm extended by said internal half-channel gasket which forms a sealing lip designed to press elastically against an internal face of said glass, and with the second arm continues approximately at right angle away from said first arm by a fixing portion designed to be attached, for example via an adhesive, to a reinforcing bar of said frame.

11. The sealing system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said external trim continues approximately at right angle, in the manner of the main leg of a “

λ

”

, from said external half-channel gasket, and said external trim is provided with at least one sealing lip which continues the base of this leg approximately in the same direction and is designed to press elastically against an external face of said glass.

12. The sealing system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the other base of the “

λ

,”

forming said external half-channel gasket is also provided with a sealing lip designed to press elastically against the internal face of said glass.

13. The sealing system as claimed in claims 10, wherein the main leg of the “

λ

,”

formed by said external trim is provided on its axially internal face with means for attaching this external trim to said frame reinforcing bar.

14. A method for making a sealing system as claimed in claim 1 comprising:

injection molding, one or both of said external strip and said internal strip for the attachment via an adhesive interface of said corresponding trim to the rest of the corresponding strip, or

overmolding an insert forming the or each gasket with an injected material forming the corresponding trim for the attachment via mechanical fastening of said or each trim to the corresponding gasket,

which external strip and internal strip include an external wiping gasket and an internal wiping gasket, respectively, for the glass and are each formed in one piece.

15. A motor vehicle comprising a body and at least one openable panel for a door that incorporates a movable glass for a front or rear side door of a motor vehicle, and which is provided with a sealing system fitted to said or each openable panel or to said body, wherein this sealing system is as defined in claim 1.