Weather strip for supporting door glass of automobile

• US 6,425,209 B1
• Filed: 09/08/2000
• Issued: 07/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Hyeon-Jung
• Primary Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US09/657,873
• Time in Patent Office: 690 Days
• Field of Search: 494/751, 494/831, 495/02
• US Class Current: 49/502
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/30 characterised by the fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/78 adjacent to corner pieces, mirror supports or quarter windows

Abstract

A weather strip for supporting a door glass of an automobile adapted to allow a first and a second weather strip for respectively supporting a moving glass and a fixed glass on a division channel to be coupled face to face and to allow the strips to be secured to a lower tip end of door chassis, thereby eliminating use of a separate part and stepped portion thereamong or maintaining a good exterior appearance, the automobile having a door mounted with the first weather strip and the second weather strip for respectively supporting the moving glass and the fixing glass to a division channel, wherein each upper tip end of the first weather strip and the second weather strip is formed with a correspondingly facing stepped surface, stepped surfaces being correspondingly contacted therebetween and the second weather strip is integrally formed therebehind with a protruder having a upwardly open recess, where the recess of the protruder is inserted by a lower coupling part of an external door panel to allow the first weather strip and the second weather strip to be respectively secured to the division channel.

Claims

1. An automobile door glass assembly comprising:

a first door glass;

a second door glass;

a door panel;

a first weather strip mounted on the first door glass along a first portion of the first weather strip, the first weather strip having a tip end surface; and

a second weather strip mounted on the second door glass along a first portion of the second weather strip, the second weather strip having a tip end surface mated to the tip end surface of the first weather strip, wherein one of the weather strips is secured to the door panel along a second portion of said one weather strip different from the first portion of said one weather strip.

2. The assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein respective tip end surfaces of the first and the second weather strips are complementary defining substantially identical stepped surfaces, wherein the stepped surface of the first weather strip is mated to and in contact with the complementary stepped surface of the second weather strip.

3. The assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein one of the weather strips is integrally formed with a protruder defining a recess for receiving a tip end of the door panel.

4. The assembly as defined in claim 3, wherein the first door glass is a moving glass, wherein the second door glass is a fixed glass, wherein a division channel is formed between the moving glass and the fixed glass to allow the protruder to be supportively coupled to the division channel.

5. An automobile door glass assembly comprising:

a first door glass;

a second door glass;

a door panel;

a first weather strip on the first door glass, the first weather strip having a tip end surface; and

a second weather strip on the second door glass and having a tip end surface coupled to the tip end surface of the first weather strip, wherein one of the weather strips comprises a protruding portion defining a recess, wherein a portion of the door panel is received by said recess securing the door panel to said strip having the recess.

6. The assembly as defined in claim 5 further comprising a division member separating the first glass from the second glass.

7. The assembly as defined in claim 6 wherein the first strip has a stepped tip portion and wherein the second strip has a stepped tip portion complementary to the stepped tip of the first strip, wherein the first tip portion is mated to the second tip portion, wherein the first tip portion is sandwiched between the second tip portion and the division member, wherein the recess is formed on the second strip, and wherein the door panel portion secures the second strip which in turn secures the first strip against the division member.

8. The assembly as defined in claim 7 wherein the protruding portion is coupled to the division member.