Bonding bracket for an operable vehicle window having a partially open adhesive channel
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsChester Stanislaus Walawender, Muhammed Ayub, Gabriel Blanco, Paul Kenneth Dellock
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Abstract
An operable vehicle window includes a glass panel, a locating adapter coupled to a bottom edge of the glass panel and adhesive disposed with a glass-receiving channel of the locating adapter. The glass-receiving channel includes a first portion that engages inboard and outboard sides of the glass panel and a second portion that engages only an outboard portion of the glass panel.
Claims16
A method for assembling an operable window within a door of a vehicle, the method including steps of:
- disposing an adhesive within a glass-receiving channel of a locating adapter;
- disposing a bottom edge of a glass panel within the glass-receiving channel;
- pressing the bottom edge of the glass panel into the adhesive to project a squeeze-out section of the adhesive from the glass-receiving channel;
- and
- curing the adhesive, wherein the adhesive within the glass-receiving channel is at least partially visible through a portion of the glass panel;
- wherein,
- the glass-receiving channel includes first and second portions and the adhesive is visible through the glass panel within the second portion of the glass-receiving channel;
- the glass-receiving channel includes opposing first and second walls;
- the first wall extends through the first and second portions of the glass-receiving channel and engages an outboard side of the glass panel;
- and
- the second wall is disposed only within the first portion and engages an inboard side of the glass panel.
A method for assembling an operable window within a door of a vehicle, the method including steps of:
- disposing an adhesive within a glass-receiving channel of a locating adapter, the glass-receiving channel having a first U-shaped section at one end of the glass-receiving channel and a second L-shaped section positioned at an opposing end of the glass-receiving channel;
- disposing a bottom edge of a glass panel within the glass-receiving channel;
- and
- pressing the bottom edge of the glass panel into the adhesive to project a squeeze-out section of the adhesive from the glass-receiving channel, wherein the squeeze-out section of the adhesive is visible at least through a portion of the glass panel and only within the second L-shaped section.
A method for assembling an operable window within a door of a vehicle, the method including steps of:
- disposing an adhesive within a glass-receiving channel of a locating adapter, the glass-receiving channel having a first U-shaped section taken vertically through the glass-receiving channel;
- and a second L-shaped section taken vertically through the glass-receiving channel;
- disposing a bottom edge of a glass panel within the glass-receiving channel, wherein the first U-shaped section of the glass-receiving channel engages inboard and outboard sides of the glass panel and the second L-shaped section of the glass-receiving channel engages only the outboard side of the glass panel;
- pressing the bottom edge of the glass panel into the adhesive to project a squeeze-out section of the adhesive from the glass-receiving channel;
- and
- curing the adhesive, wherein the adhesive within the glass-receiving channel is at least partially visible through a portion of the glass panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.