SEALING MEMBER OF DOOR FOR CAR

• US 20170001504A1
• Filed: 05/31/2016
• Published: 01/05/2017
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 9,969,250 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 member to be secured to a door for a car, the sealing member comprising:

an insertion groove, formed on the sealing member, into which a part is inserted; and

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 the other side face to set a width of an opening of the insertion groove to a predetermined opening width or wider.

2. The sealing member of claim 1, wherein

the opening width setting portion has a face away from a deepest end of the insertion groove, the face being formed to be positioned deeper into the insertion groove as extending toward a protruding end of the opening width setting portion.

3. The sealing member of claim 1, wherein

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

the core is provided with the opening width setting portion.

4. The sealing member 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 the inserting groove.

5. The sealing member of claim 1,

the sealing member being secured to the door flange, and covering up the door flange at least from an outside of a compartment of the car, the door flange protruding from the 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,

the part includes a trim strip having a securing leg to be inserted into the insertion groove from 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 member of claim 5, wherein

the other side face of the insertion groove is provided with a protruding portion fitting on a fitting portion formed on the securing leg of the trim strip.