Flush glass window molding

• US 5,603,546 A
• Filed: 02/06/1996
• Issued: 02/18/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cooper-Standard Automotive Incorporated (Cooper-Standard Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: The Standard Products Company (Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company)
• Inventors: Desir, Julio Sr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ANNICK, CHRISTINA FRANCIS
• Application Number:
  US08/598,643
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• Field of Search: 296/93, 296/146.15, 296/201, 52/204.591, 52/204.69, 52/208
• US Class Current: 296/93
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/45 Assembling sealing arrangements with vehicle parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/70 specially adapted for windows or windscreens

Abstract

A flush glass window molding for an automotive vehicle has a hollow triangular shaped portion for filling the gap created between an edge of a window panel and the vehicle body panel, a flexible finger located adjacent to a body-side leg of the triangular shaped portion and extending from the apex thereof, and a substantially flat base extending outward at a generally right angle from the apex of the window-side triangular leg. Furthermore, an outside surface of the window molding base is affixed to the inside of the window panel by a pressure sensitive adhesive tape and an inside surface of the base is affixed to a flange of the vehicle body panel by a urethane adhesive bead.

Claims

1. A window molding for an automotive vehicle located between a substantially transparent window panel and an adjacent vehicle body panel, said window panel having an outside surface and an inside surface, both of which are peripherally bordered by an edge therearound, said adjacent vehicle body panel having an appearance surface with an offset portion formed therefrom, ending with an inwardly turned flange being substantially parallel to said adjacent vehicle body panel, said window molding being comprised of an elongated flexible member with a typical cross sectional shape having a triangular shaped portion defined by a short visible triangular leg being substantially parallel to and flush with said outside surface of said window panel and said appearance surface of said vehicle body panel, said triangular-shaped portion being further defined by a window-side triangular leg extending generally perpendicularly from one end of a non-appearance side of said visible triangular leg, said triangular-shaped portion also being defined by a body-side triangular leg extending from a second end of said non-appearance side of said visible triangular leg and mating with said window-side triangular leg thereby forming an apex of said triangular-shaped portion, said visible triangular leg, said window-side triangular leg and said body-side triangular leg forming a triangular-shaped hollow therebetween, said window molding having a flexible finger located adjacent to said body-side triangular leg and being joined thereto at said apex of said triangular-shaped portion, said window molding having a base extending inward from said window-side triangular leg at a generally right angle and being joined thereto at said apex of said triangular-shaped portion, said base having an inside surface and an outside surface thereupon, said outside surface of said base being affixed to said inside surface of said window panel and said inside surface of said base being affixed to said flange of said vehicle body panel, whereby said triangular-shaped portion and said flexible finger substantially fill a gap created between said edge of said window panel and said offset portion of said vehicle body panel.

2. The window molding of claim 1 wherein said inside surface of said base has at least one lobe protruding therefrom toward said flange of said vehicle body panel.

3. The window molding of claim 1 wherein said base is affixed to said flange by a urethane adhesive bead.

4. The window molding of claim 1 wherein said base is affixed to said inside surface of said window panel by a pressure sensitive adhesive tape applied therebetween.