Construction for securing trim strip to automotive door

• US 9,963,088 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2016
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Yoshida, Sakiko, Matsuura, Toshifumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, Katherine W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kelly, Catherine A
• Application Number:
  US15/218,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20170028938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/265 the surface being primarily decorative
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/30 characterised by the fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/76 for window sashes; for glass run channels
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/88 mounted on, or integral with, the glass-run seals
• 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 flange 11d is provided with an outer protrusion 21e and an upper step 20e. A trim strip 40 includes: an exterior appearance portion 41; a fit portion 46 in which the outer protrusion 21e is inserted and fits; an engagement plate 43 engaging with the upper step 20e from above; and a lower abutting plate 44 abutting to the lower face of the door flange 11d from below.

Claims

1. An assembly for securing a trim strip for an automotive door, the assembly comprising:

a door flange provided to a window frame of the automotive door to protrude toward an outside of a compartment of a car;

the trim strip secured to the door flange from the outside of the compartment

an outer protrusion formed on an end of the door flange close to the outside of the compartment, the outer protrusion protruding upward;

an upper step formed on a portion of an upper face of the door flange closer to a base end of the door flange than the end on which the outer protrusion is formed, the upper step positioning the upper face of the door flange higher to the outside of the compartment than to an inside of the compartment;

an exterior appearance portion facing the outside of the compartment and creating an appearance;

a fit portion, provided to an upper portion of the exterior appearance portion, into which the outer protrusion is inserted and fits;

an engagement plate extending from the fit portion to the upper step, and engaging with the upper step; and

a lower abutting portion extending from a portion of the exterior appearance portion, below the fit portion and abutting to a lower face of the door flange from below,

wherein;

the trim strip includes the exterior appearance portion, the fit portion, the engagement portion, and the lower abutting portion,

a bending plate is formed on an end of the engagement plate close to an inside of the compartment, the bending plate being bent downward and then upward, the bending plate further engaging with the upper step, and

a transformable portion is provided on a portion of the bending plate on the engagement plate close to an outside of the compartment, the transformable portion being configured to allow the bending plate to vertically bend.

2. The assembly of claim 1, further comprising:

a lower step provided to the lower face of the door flange, the lower step being formed to position the lower face of the door flange higher to the outside of the compartment than to the inside of the compartment,

wherein the lower abutting portion of the trim strip abuts to the lower step from the outside of the compartment.

3. The assembly of claim 1, further comprising a sealing protrusion provided to an interior surface of the fit portion of the trim strip, the sealing protrusion making contact with the door flange and sealing a gap between the interior surface and the door flange.

4. The assembly of claim 3, wherein the engagement portion of the trim strip is made of a hard resin material harder than the sealing protrusion.

5. The assembly of claim 1, further comprising a glass run secured to the trim strip, so that a circumferential edge of a window glass, disposed to freely rise and fall in the window frame, makes contact with the glass run.

6. The assembly of claim 1, further comprising an introduction opening formed between the engagement portion and the lower abutting portion of the trim strip, the introduction opening introducing the outer protrusion of the door flange into the fit portion.

7. The assembly of claim 1, wherein an exterior face of the transformable portion has asperity.

8. The assembly of claim 1, wherein a material of the transformable portion is more flexible than a material of the portion of the bending plate other than the transformable portion.