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US 11,697,333 B2Granted
Door outside belt for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorSung Yong Cho
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Abstract
A hybrid-type door outside belt for a vehicle utilizes different materials for a skin layer of a skin body that is mounted to an upper end of a door panel and a main wing that is moved by contacting the door glass, the skin layer of the skin body being made of a material having excellent scratch-resistance, and the main wing being made of a material having excellent compression set (deformation).
Claims7
A door outside belt for a vehicle, the door outside belt comprising:
- a core plate providing a frame of the door outside belt;
- a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) skin layer provided by being extruded over an inner surface and an outer surface of the core plate;
- a PVC auxiliary wing provided by being integrally molded on an inside upper end of the PVC skin layer;
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- a thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) main wing provided by being extruded on a partial section of an inside outer surface of the core plate,
- wherein a PVC adhesive is applied to the inner surface and the outer surface of the core plate, and a TPV adhesive is applied to the partial section of the inside outer surface of the core plate,
- wherein the PVC adhesive and the TPV adhesive which are applied to the inside outer surface of the core plate are applied with approximately a 1-3 mm buffer section between the adhesives so as to prevent the adhesives from being mixed together.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.