Method and corresponding configuration for fixing a window guide section

• US 5,076,638 A
• Filed: 01/31/1991
• Issued: 12/31/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Metzeler Automotive Profile Systems GmbH (Cooper-Standard Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Metzeler Automotive Profile Systems GmbH (Cooper-Standard Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kranz, Jurgen, Dehnert, Klaus, Jorgensen, Per, Andexlinger, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): SONG, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US07/648,738
• Time in Patent Office: 334 Days
• Field of Search: 296/201, 296/202, 296/146, 49/374, 49/440, 49/441
• US Class Current: 296/201
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/30 characterised by the fastening means
• 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

A method for fixing a window guide section with a mounting to a metal frame, especially in the door of a motor vehicle, includes decoupling the metal frame from the mounting of the window guide section with an interposed intermediate system compensating for manufacturing tolerances and assuming the function of the mounting. The metal frame of the motor vehicle door has a rear surface and two outwardly-projecting webs with free ends. The window guide section has recesses of a given shape formed therein. A configuration for fixing the window guide section to the metal frame includes a rigid plastic section surrounding the rear surface of the metal frame. The plastic section extends beyond the free ends of the webs and at least partially surrounds the webs at a given location. The plastic section has laterally-projecting mounting projections with the given shape in the vicinity of the given location being buttoned into the recesses in the window guide section.

Claims

1. In a motor vehicle door having a metal frame with a rear surface and two outwardly-projecting webs with free ends, and a window guide section with recesses of a given shape formed therein, a configuration for fixing the window guide section to the metal frame, comprising a rigid plastic section surrounding the rear surface of the metal frame, said plastic section extending beyond the free ends of the webs and at least partially surrounding the webs at a given location, and said plastic section having laterally-projecting mounting projections with the given shape in the vicinity of said given location being buttoned into the recesses in the window guide section.

2. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein said plastic section is formed of ABS.

3. The configuration according to claim 2, wherein said plastic section is reinforced with fiberglass.

4. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein said plastic section is formed of polyamide.

5. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein said plastic section has an approximately U-shaped cross-section with legs having free ends, said mounting projections being disposed on said free ends of said legs.

6. The configuration according to claim 5, wherein said mounting projections include an additional, outwardly-projecting strip disposed on said free end of at least one of said legs.

7. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein the motor vehicle has a roof with a lower surface, the door has a window pane, the window guide section has an approximately U-shaped basic body having legs with free ends, said basic body is disposed between the webs of the metal frame, said free end of one of said legs has an outwardly projecting strip surrounding one of said mounting projections of said plastic section and a sealing lip projecting inwardly at an angle towards the window pane, and said free end of the other of said legs has a profile region surrounding the other of said mounting projections and a sealing strip pressing against the lower surface of the roof.

8. The configuration according to claim 7, wherein said free end of the other of said legs has a profiled strip surrounding the window pane from the top and the outside, and said profiled strip has an outer surface flush with said sealing strip.

9. The configuration according to claim 7, wherein the window guide section has a contraction in the vicinity of the bottom of the basic body for reducing the thickness of the window guide section.