Door weather strip for motor vehicle

• US 8,910,423 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2013
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Lee, Jong Hae
• Primary Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US14/023,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20140157679A1
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 494/901, 494/981, 494/751
• US Class Current: 49/498.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/248 having two or more tubular cavities, e.g. formed by partition walls
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/75 for sealing the lower part of the panes

Abstract

A door weather strip for a vehicle includes a weather strip body, an upper rib, a lower rib and a sealing portion. The weather strip body has an assembly groove. The upper rib and lower rib extend outward from one side of the weather strip body at a predetermined distance in a height direction of the weather strip body. The sealing portion is integrally connected with the upper rib and the lower rib.

Claims

1. A door weather strip for a vehicle, comprising:

a weather strip body having an assembly groove;

an upper rib and a lower rib extending outward from one side of the weather strip body at a predetermined distance in a height direction of the weather strip body; and

a sealing portion integrally connected with the upper rib and the lower rib, wherein

the horizontal length ratio of the entire deformation section L1 +L2 of the weather strip including the sealing portion, the upper rib, and the lower rib to the sealing portion is 3;

2, (L1+L2) ;

L2 =3;

2, wherein;

L1 is a horizontal length of the upper rib and the lower rib from the weather strip body, and

L2 is a horizontal length of an elliptic orbit of the sealing portion.

2. The door weather strip of claim 1, wherein the sealing portion has a closed cross-section.

3. The door weather strip of claim 2, wherein the closed cross-section of the sealing portion has the shape of an ellipse.

4. The door weather strip of claim 3, wherein the sealing portion has an elliptical shape that includes the elliptical closed cross-section and that has a long axis and a short axis.

5. The door weather strip of claim 4, wherein the length ratio of the long axis to the short axis is 2:

1.

6. The door weather strip of claim 4, wherein the elliptical shape is disposed at an angle of 35 degrees with respect to a vertical axis in the height direction of the weather strip body.

7. The door weather strip of claim 4, wherein the upper rib is connected with the sealing portion at a one-quarter point of the long axis of the sealing portion.

8. The door weather strip of claim 1, wherein the upper rib extends at an angle downward with respect to the height direction of the weather strip body.

9. The door weather strip of claim 8, wherein the upper rib extends at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the vertical axis in the height direction of the weather strip body.

10. The door weather strip of claim 1, wherein the upper rib extends straight to have a longitudinally uniform thickness.

11. The door weather strip of claim 1, wherein the lower rib extends in an arc shape upward in the height direction of the weather strip body.

12. The door weather strip of claim 1, wherein the lower rib integrally extends from one end of one side of the weather strip.

13. The door weather strip of claim 1, wherein the lower rib gradually decreases in thickness in a longitudinal direction of the weather strip body.

14. The door weather strip of claim 1, wherein:

the weather strip body has a U-shape cross-section that has the assembly groove,

a supporting member is disposed in the weather strip body, and

one or more sealing lips are disposed on opposite sides of the weather strip body facing each other and defining the assembly groove.