Window surround for a vehicle
AssigneeMagna Engineered Glass Europe S.à.r.l.
InventorsPatrick Febvay, Kévin Banasiewicz
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a window surround for a vehicle, a window surround for a vehicle, and a device for manufacturing a window surround. The window surround includes a first component to serve as a circumferential support frame to hold a window glass panel, a second component, composed of a material of less hardness than the material of the first component, onto the first component, to serve as a circumferential sealing element, and a third component that is composed of a high gloss material. The method includes injection molding the first component onto a window glass panel, then injection molding the second component onto the first component, and then injection molding the third component onto the first component.
Claims11
A method of manufacturing a window surround for a vehicle, the method comprising:
- injection molding a first component composed of a first material onto a window glass panel, the first component comprising a circumferential support frame to hold the window glass panel;
- injection molding, after injection molding the first component onto the window glass panel, a second component, composed of a second material of less hardness than the first material, onto the first component, the second component comprising a circumferential sealing element;
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- injection molding, after injection molding the first component onto the window glass panel but before or after injection molding the second component onto the first component, a third component composed of a high gloss material onto the first component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.