Glass run
AssigneesToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasatoshi Nojiri, Sagiri Kato, Masaaki Wakahara
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Abstract
A glass run includes a bottom wall, a vehicle outer side wall, and a vehicle inner side wall as a basic skeleton. The basic skeleton is attached to a door frame groove portion formed in a door frame, the glass run guiding upward and downward movement of a door glass. In the glass run, a vehicle inner side of the vehicle outer side wall is formed with a thick portion that protrudes toward a vehicle inner side, comes into sliding contact with the door glass, and has higher hardness than hardness of a vehicle outer side wall body portion of the vehicle outer side wall.
Claims12
A glass run with a bottom wall, a vehicle outer side wall, and a vehicle inner side wall as a basic skeleton, the basic skeleton being attached to a door frame groove portion formed in a door frame, the glass run guiding upward and downward movement of a door glass, wherein
- a vehicle outer side wall body portion of the vehicle outer side wall includes a stairstep shape with a portion between a distal part of the vehicle outer side wall body portion and a proximal part of the bottom wall side of the vehicle outer side wall body portion protruding to a vehicle inner side, and
- the portion of the stairstep shape that protrudes to the vehicle inner side is formed with a thick portion in direct contact with and unembedded into the stairstep shape, the thick portion further protrudes toward the vehicle inner side, comes into sliding contact with the door glass, and the thick portion has higher hardness than hardness of the vehicle outer side wall body portion of the vehicle outer side wall.
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