Glass run for automotive door
AssigneeNishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshifumi Matsuura, Shingo Tomoyasu, Tomonori Miyata
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Abstract
A glass run for an automotive door, the glass run to be assembled to a window frame of the automotive door from vehicle outside and seal a gap between the window frame and window glass, includes: a glass run body having an insertion groove and attached to a glass run attachment plate extending from an upper portion of the window frame toward the vehicle outside; and a trim strip to be assembled to a side of the glass run body closer to the vehicle outside, the trim strip extending in a vehicle front-rear direction. The trim strip includes a trim strip body made of resin and formed through extrusion molding, and a decorative tape coextruded on a side of the trim strip body closer to the vehicle outside.
Claims4
A glass run for an automotive door, the glass run to be assembled to a window frame of the automotive door from vehicle outside and seal a gap between the window frame and window glass, the glass run comprising:
- a glass run body to be attached to a glass run attachment plate extending from an upper portion of the window frame toward the vehicle outside;
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- a trim strip to be assembled to a side of the glass run body closer to the vehicle outside, the trim strip extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, wherein
- an upper ridge projecting upward and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction and a lower ridge projecting downward and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction are formed at a portion of the glass run body where the trim strip body is attached,
- the trim strip includes a trim strip body made of resin and formed through extrusion molding, and a decorative tape coextruded on a side of the trim strip body closer to the vehicle outside,
- an upper projection and a lower projection, each projecting toward vehicle inside and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction, are formed on an upper end and a lower end of the trim strip body, respectively,
- an upper portion of the decorative tape extends to reach an upper surface of the upper projection,
- a lower portion of the decorative tape extends to reach a lower surface of the lower projection,
- an upper fit portion mating with the upper ridge and a lower fit portion mating with the lower ridge are formed on a side of the trim strip body closer to the vehicle inside,
- a thickness of the upper fit portion and a thickness of the lower fit portion are set to be thinner than a thickness of a portion of the trim strip body where the decorative tape is layered, and
- the trim strip is movable in the vehicle front-rear direction relative to the glass run body while the upper fit portion and the lower fit portion mate with the upper ridge and the lower ridge, respectively.
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