Structure of window opening of car door

• US 7,874,104 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2006
• Issued: 01/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabusiki Kasha
• Inventors: Sakanoue, Kenichi, Kimoto, Tohru
• Primary Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US11/990,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20090064594A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,636 Days
• Field of Search: 495/02, 494/40, 494/41, 494/891, 494/951, 296/146.5
• US Class Current: 49/502
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/10 fixedly mounted B60J1/085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/78 adjacent to corner pieces, mirror supports or quarter windows
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0402 window frame details, including sash guides and glass runs
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0411 Beltline

Abstract

According to the invention, a car door has a window opening defined by an upward part extending from a rear upper end of a door panel and a sash assembly; a stationary panel fitted in a rear window opening defined by the sash assembly and a center sash; a curved edge of the upward part defines a bottom of the window opening; and a weather strip including a part engaging a periphery of the stationary panel, attached to the periphery of the window opening, serving as a seal, and having an inner lip extending from an inner edge of the part engaging the periphery of the stationary panel and an outer lip extending toward and being in contact with an external part of the curved edge of the outer panel.

Claims

1. A structure of a window opening for a car door which comprises:

a door panel including an outer panel and an inner panel lapped each other and integrally formed;

an upward part upwardly extending from a rear upper end of the door panel; and

a bracket-shaped sash assembly including a vertical sash standing at an upper front end of the door panel and a roof-facing sash horizontally extending from the vertical sash and joined to an upper end of the upward part;

wherein the window opening is defined by the bracket-shaped sash assembly and the upward part, and is divided by a center sash into a front opening part and a rear opening part;

the rear opening part is fitted with a stationary panel, and has a peripheral edge curved upwardly and an external shape matching with an external shape of the front opening part;

a weather strip has a part engaged with the stationary panel along the peripheral edge of rear opening part, and seals the peripheral edge curved upwardly of the rear opening part;

an inner lip extends from an inner edge of the weather strip engaged to a periphery of the stationary panel, and an outer lip extends from an outer edge of the weather strip and is in contact with an external part of a curved edge of the outer panel; and

an external shape of the outer lip matches with an external shape of a rear end of a belt line outer molding upstream of the center sash.

2. The structure according to claim 1, wherein at a part where the weather strip faces with the center sash, a shape of the outer lip of the weather strip matches with an external shape of a rear end of a belt line outer molding upstream of the center sash.

3. The structure according to claim 1, wherein at a part where the weather strip faces with the center sash, a shape of the inner lip of the weather strip matches with an external shape of a rear end of a belt line inner molding upstream of the center sash.