Glass run channel

• US 5,010,689 A
• Filed: 03/19/1990
• Issued: 04/30/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cooper-Standard Automotive Incorporated (Cooper-Standard Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: The Standard Products Company (Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company)
• Inventors: Vaughan, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lindsey, Rodney M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Redman, Jerry
• Application Number:
  US07/495,783
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 49/440, 49/441, 49/484, 49/485, 49/489, 49/490, 49/491, 49/495
• US Class Current: 49/440
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/235 the parts being joined along their longitudinal direction
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/24 having tubular parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/76 for window sashes; for glass run channels
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/79 for flush-glass windows, i.e. for windows flush with the vehicle body or the window frame

Abstract

A glass run channel weather strip has a frame member and sealing member. The frame member has an overall S-shape in cross-section with a mechanism to retain the frame onto a flange. Also, the S-shape member includes a mechanism to mechanically retain the seal member within the frame member to form an integral glass run channel.

Claims

1. A glass run channel weather strip comprising:

a first elongated member including a reinforcement element and a skin integrally bonded to said reinforcement member, said first member, in cross-section, having an overall S-shaped with a first and second U-shaped portion, said first U-shaped portion of the S-shape first member having means adapted for retaining the first member onto a flange, the second U-shaped portion having one or more retaining channels formed in the integral skin on the interior of the U-shaped portion; and

a second elongated member having an overall U-shape in cross-section, one or more projecting members projecting from the exterior of the U-shape having shapes complementary to the shapes of the one or more channels in the second U-shaped portion of the S-shaped member adapted for coupling with said one or more channels for mechanically retaining said second member within said first member, and a finger member projecting from one of the legs of the U-shaped second member into the interior of the U-shaped second member to provide a seal when a window is positioned in the glass run channel.

2. The weather strip according to claim 1 further comprising said one or more retaining channel being on a leg of said second U-shaped portion of said S-shaped first member.

3. The weather strip according to claim 1 further comprising said one or more retaining channels being on both legs of said second U-shaped portion of said S-shaped first member.

4. The weather strip according to claim 1 wherein said integral skin surrounds the interior and exterior of said reinforcement member.

5. The weather strip according to claim 1 wherein said second member has an equal number of projecting member as number of channels.

6. The weather strip according to claim 1 wherein said skin covers the interior and exterior of the first U-shaped portion and the interior and a portion of the exterior of the second U-shaped portion of the S shaped first member.

7. The weather strip according to claim 1 wherein said second U-shaped portion of the S-shaped member has one leg with a height shorter than the other leg.

8. The weather strip according to claim 1 wherein said one or more retaining channels are on said leg.

9. The weather strip according to claim 1 wherein said second U-shaped member has one leg with a height shorter than the other leg.

10. The weather strip according to claim 1 wherein said second U-shaped member includes a pair of webs forming a hollow channel.