US 10,870,338 B2Granted

Sealing member and attachment structure thereof

AssigneeTokai Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorKeiji Hiroe

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Abstract

A sealing member includes an attachment portion and a sealing portion in a cross-section, the attachment portion being attached to a flange portion provided to an opening edge of a vehicle body opening portion, and the sealing portion being integrated with the attachment portion. The sealing member is formed to be elongated and includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, the first portion having a first cross-sectional shape, the second portion having a second cross-sectional shape, and the third portion continuously and integrally connecting the first portion and the second portion to each other. The cross-sectional shape of the sealing portion having the second cross-sectional shape is smaller than the cross-sectional shape of the sealing portion having the first cross-sectional shape, and the third portion is formed such that a cross-sectional shape thereof changes along the longitudinal direction.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A sealing member that is configured to be attached to a vehicle body opening portion of a vehicle and is configured to seal a gap between the vehicle body opening portion and a door body capable of closing the vehicle body opening portion, the sealing member being elongated and comprising:

an attachment portion and a sealing portion integrated with the attachment portion in a cross-section of the sealing member, the attachment portion being configured to be attached to a flange portion provided to an opening edge of the vehicle body opening portion, and
a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion disposed along a longitudinal direction of the sealing member, the third portion being provided between the first portion and the second portion to continuously and integrally connect the first portion and the second portion to each other,
wherein:
the at least one of a wall thickness and a height of the sealing portion of the second portion is smaller than at least one of a wall thickness and a height of the sealing portion of the first portion, respectively,
the third portion is formed such that at least one of a wall thickness and a height of the sealing portion thereof changes along the longitudinal direction, and
a length of the third portion extending along the longitudinal direction of the sealing member is longer than a length of the first portion and is longer than a length of the second portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/063,827Filed 1 Sep 2016
Priority: JP 2015-24918822 Dec 2015
Published: US 2019/0263238 A129 Aug 2019
Granted: 22 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B60J 10/21
Characterised by the shape: having corner parts or bends
B60J 10/16
Characterised by the material: consisting of two or more plastic materials having different physical or chemical properties
B60J 10/22
Characterised by the shape: having varying cross-section in the longitudinal direction
B60J 10/24
Characterised by the shape: having tubular parts

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US 2019/0263238 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Aug 2019
US 10,828,971 B2Related patent
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