Sealing member of door for car

• US 9,969,250 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2016
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Takeda, Kazuyuki, Fukuta, Atushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, Katherine W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kelly, Catherine A
• Application Number:
  US15/169,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20170001504A1
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/27 having projections, grooves or channels in the longitudinal direction for separately inserted fastening means, e.g. beads or strips, B60J10/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/76 for window sashes; for glass run channels
• 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

When an insertion groove, into which various parts are inserted, is formed on a sealing member, the present disclosure may maintain a width of an opening of the insertion groove greater than or equal to a predetermined width, facilitating the insertion. A sealing member 30 includes an insertion groove S into which a trim strip 45 is inserted. The insertion groove S has a side face S1 provided with a protruding portion 41c. The protruding portion 41c protrudes toward another side face S2 and abuts on the other side face S2 to set an opening width of the insertion groove S to a predetermined opening width or wider.

Claims

1. A sealing assembly to be secured to a door for a car, the sealing assembly comprising:

a trim strip comprising a securing leg with a protruding tip portion provided with a fitting portion; and

a sealing member comprising;

an upper seal edge portion;

an insertion groove, formed on the sealing member and configured to receive therein at least a portion of the trim strip;

an opening width setting portion provided to a side face of the insertion groove, protruding toward an other side face of the insertion groove, and abutting on either the other side face prior to receipt of the part in the groove or the part upon receipt of the part in the groove, so as to set a width of an opening of the insertion groove to a predetermined opening width or wider; and

a core including a top plate portion, a longitudinal plate portion, and a bottom plate portion, wherein protruding portions made of an elastic material are formed on a bottom face of the top plate portion, the protruding portions being configured to flex in contact with a top face of a door flange and clamp the door flange together with the bottom plate portion; and

wherein;

a top face of the top plate portion is provided with a fitting protrusion portion positioned deeper into the insertion groove than at least one of the protruding portions of the core;

the securing leg is the portion of the trim strip received in the insertion groove, such that the securing leg, when inserted in the groove, is positioned close to a bottom portion of the groove;

the fitting portion comprises a protruding portion protruding downward from a bottom face of the securing leg, the fitting portion being configured to hook over the fitting protrusion portion of the core so as to engage with the fitting protrusion portion; and

the seal member including the upper seal edge portion formed linearly is configured to be forcibly bent to fit into the shape of a bent portion of a frame upper edge portion of a window frame of the door of the car and secured to the window frame.

2. The sealing assembly of claim 1, wherein:

the opening width setting portion has a face extending from an outer end of the opening width setting portion to a protruding end of the opening width portion, and

the face is positioned deeper within the insertion groove at the protruding end of the opening width setting portion than at the outer end of the opening width setting portion.

3. The sealing assembly of claim 1, wherein:

the sealing member includes a portion made of an elastic material, and the core is harder than the elastic material, and

the core is provided with the opening width setting portion.

4. The sealing assembly of claim 3, wherein the core is formed to fit onto a door flange provided to a window frame of the door while the door flange is inserted into an inserting groove separate from the insertion groove of the sealing member.

5. The sealing assembly of claim 1, wherein:

the sealing member is secured to a door flange, and covering up the door flange at least from an outside of a compartment of the car, the door flange protruding from a window frame of the door toward the outside of the compartment, wherein

the insertion groove is formed to open toward the outside of the compartment,

and

the opening width setting portion engages with an engaging step portion formed on the securing leg of the trim strip.

6. The sealing assembly member of claim 5, wherein:

the fitting protrusion portion engages a groove formed on the securing leg of the trim strip.

7. The sealing assembly of claim 1, wherein:

the trim strip further comprises a securing claw spaced downward and apart from the securing leg;

a tip of the securing claw is located toward the outside of the compartment with respect to an exterior face of window glass in the window frame;

the sealing member further comprises a glass contacting portion extending downward from the core and making contact with the exterior face of the window glass; and

the glass contacting portion includes a claw-receiving recessed portion configured to receive the securing claw of the trim strip.