Glass run

• US 8,595,982 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Mori, Kousuke, Matsuura, Toshifumi
• Primary Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US13/668,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20130133266A1
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 494/40, 494/41, 494/751, 494/951, 494/891
• US Class Current: 49/441
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/20 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/76 for window sashes; for glass run channels
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/767 for reducing air resistance due to the panes not being flush with the sash guide or glass run channel
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/42 Sliding wings; Details of frames with respect to guiding E06B3/26347 and E06B3/92 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/88 Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses

Abstract

An outer lip 26 is forked into an inner-attaching lip 26X and an outer-attaching lip 26Y, wherein the outer-attaching lip 26Y is set on a position where a top end 26a thereof is not drawn toward a connecting wall 24 side by the door glass 9; a folding point 60 is formed on a connecting wall 24 side of a base root 26d of the inner-attaching lip 26X for turning the inner-attaching lip 26X toward the connecting wall 24 side; thickness 31 of the base root 26d of the inner-attaching lip 26X is thicker than thickness 32 on the folding point 60 and thickness 34 of the base root 26b of the outer-attaching lip 26Y is thinner than thickness 33 of the top end 26a; and the outer-attaching lip 26Y follows turn of the inner-attaching lip 26X and is slidably brought into contact with the door glass 9.

Claims

1. A glass run for guiding a door glass lifting or lowering into channel, which is fittable along a frame having a substantially U-shaped cross section of an automobile door, the glass run comprising:

a body having a substantially U-shaped cross-section including an inner-cabin side wall, an outer-cabin side wall and a connecting wall which connects the inner-cabin and outer-cabin side walls;

an inner lip which extends toward said connecting wall side from an inner surface of said inner-cabin side wall and which is slidably brought into contact with said door glass; and

an outer lip which extends toward an inner-cabin side from an inner surface of an end of said outer-cabin side wall and which is slidably brought into contact with said door glass, the outer lip being forked into an inner-attaching lip which extends toward said connecting wall side from an inner surface of the end of said outer-cabin side wall and faces said inner lip and an outer-attaching lip which extends substantially perpendicularly to a direction in which the inner-attaching lip extends from an opposite side to said connecting wall side of a base root of said inner-attaching lip;

wherein

before said door glass is guided into said channel, the outer-attaching lip of said outer lip is set on a position where a top end of the outer lip is spaced from the door glass guided into said channel or, even in case the top end touches the door glass, the door glass being ineffective in moving the top end of the outer lip toward the connecting wall side;

a folding point is formed by thinning thickness of said connecting wall side of the base root of said inner-attaching lip or by forming a notch from an inner-cabin side for turning said inner-attaching lip toward said connecting wall side;

thickness of the base root of said inner-attaching lip is thicker than the thickness on said folding point and thickness of the base root of said outer-attaching lip is thinner than a thickness of the top end of the outer-attaching lip; and

when said door glass is guided into said channel and slidably brought into contact with said inner-attaching lip, the inner-attaching lip turns toward said connecting wall side around said folding point, said outer-attaching lip approaches said door glass side and is slidably brought into contact with the door glass following movement of said inner-attaching lip, and the top end of said outer-attaching lip bends and moves toward an opposite side to said connecting wall side along said door glass.

2. The glass run as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said folding point is formed at a position away from an end of an outer-cabin side part forming said frame toward an opposite side to said connecting wall side, which is either on an extension line of an inner-cabin side surface of the outer-cabin side part forming said frame or on the outer-cabin side of the extension line.

3. The glass run as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

thickness of the base root of said outer-attaching lip is formed by one of cutting off one of an inner-cabin side and an outer-cabin side of the outer-attaching lip, and forming a notch from one of the inner-cabin side and the outer-cabin side.

4. The glass run as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said inner-attaching lip is formed at an interval from said outer-cabin side wall so that the inner-attaching lip is spaced from the outer-cabin side wall when the inner-attaching lip is slidably brought into contact with the door glass.

5. The glass run as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.

6. The glass run as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.

7. The glass run as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

said inner-attaching lip is formed at an interval from said outer-cabin side wall so that the inner-attaching lip is spaced from the outer-cabin side wall when the inner-attaching lip is slidably brought into contact with the door glass.

8. The glass run as claimed in claim 7, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.

9. The glass run as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.

10. The glass run as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

thickness of the base root of said outer-attaching lip is formed by one of cutting off one of an inner-cabin side and an outer-cabin side of the outer-attaching lip, and forming a notch from one of the inner-cabin side and the outer-cabin side.

11. The glass run as claimed in claim 10, wherein:

said inner-attaching lip is formed at an interval from said outer-cabin side wall so that the inner-attaching lip is spaced from the outer-cabin side wall when the inner-attaching lip is slidably brought into contact with the door glass.

12. The glass run as claimed in claim 11, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.

13. The glass run as claimed in claim 10, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.

14. The glass run as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said inner-attaching lip is formed at an interval from said outer-cabin side wall so that the inner-attaching lip is spaced from the outer-cabin side wall when the inner-attaching lip is slidably brought into contact with the door glass.

15. The glass run as claimed in claim 14, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.

16. The glass run as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said glass run is continuous vertically crossing over a position at least on a belt line relative to said automobile door.