Door frame for vehicle

• US 9,186,964 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Im, Sang Young
• Primary Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US14/105,117
• Publication Number:
  US 20150130214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: 495/02, 494/40, 494/41, 296/146.1, 296/146.5
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/76 for window sashes; for glass run channels
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0402 window frame details, including sash guides and glass runs
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0405 Inboard or outboard side of window frame formed integrally with the lower door structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0463 Conceptual assembling of door, i.e. how door frame parts should be fitted together to form door
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/04 External Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices thereon fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12

Abstract

A door frame for a vehicle for ensuring aesthetic features of the vehicle, reducing the production cost, and minimizing the entire weight may be coupled with a bright molding providing for improving aesthetic features of a vehicle and a door glass run guiding open/close of a door glass. The door frame may include: one outer frame at which the bright molding is mounted; and one inner frame disposed at an internal side compared with the outer frame, coupled with the outer frame. The door glass run may be interposed and coupled between a glass run supporting portion formed at the bright molding and a glass run contact portion formed at the outer frame, and the bright molding may be directly mounted to the outer frame without an additional member.

Claims

1. A door frame for a vehicle comprising:

a bright molding for improving aesthetic features of the vehicle;

a door glass run guiding opening and closing of a door glass;

a outer frame at which the bright molding is mounted; and

a inner frame disposed at an internal side compared with the outer frame, coupled with the outer frame;

wherein the door glass run is interposed and coupled between a glass run supporting portion formed at the bright molding and a glass run contact portion of the outer frame, and the bright molding is mounted to the outer frame, and,

wherein the outer frame comprises;

a molding mounting portion surface contacting the bright molding; and

a hemming portion formed at one end of the molding mounting portion, and

hemmed to a part of the inner frame, and

wherein the glass run contact portion is bent and extended from another end of the molding mounting portion toward an internal direction of the vehicle, and the glass run contact portion includes a hole into which an end of the bright molding is inserted.

2. The door frame of claim 1, wherein the bright molding comprises:

a frame contact portion surface contacting the molding mounting portion of the outer frame;

a first extending portion bent and extended from one end of the frame contact portion toward an internal direction of the vehicle, and formed so as to surround the one end of the molding mounting portion and a portion of the hemming portion; and

a second extending portion bent and extended from another end of the glass run supporting portion toward an internal direction of the vehicle, and adapted such that a portion thereof is inserted into the hole,

wherein the glass run supporting portion is adapted such that one end thereof is connected with another end of the frame contact portion and the another end thereof is extended in a shape of a U and contacts the door glass run.

3. The door frame of claim 2, wherein a blocker is formed for blocking the one end of the molding mounting portion at the first extending portion, and the portion of the second extending portion inserted into the hole is formed so as to block one side of the hole.

4. The door frame of claim 3, wherein a plastic having elastic force is disposed between the blocker of the first extending portion and the one end of the molding mounting portion.

5. The door frame of claim 1, wherein a portion of the door glass run is formed so as to surround the glass run supporting portion and is extended along an external surface of the bright molding.

6. The door frame of claim 5, wherein a width of the bright molding exposed to an outside is determined according a length of the door glass run extended along an external surface of the bright molding.

7. The door frame of claim 1, wherein the bright molding and a plastic having elastic force are integrally formed by an injection molding after the bright molding is formed by roll forming.

8. The door frame of claim 7, wherein the plastic is injection-molded so as to entirely surround the bright molding, and a width of the bright molding exposed to an outside is determined by cutting the plastic.

9. The door frame of claim 7, wherein the plastic disposed between one end of the bright molding and a vehicle body forms a lip which is protruded toward the vehicle body.