Door weather strip
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinnosuke Hamada, Masatoshi Nojiri
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Abstract
A door weather strip includes an attachment base that is attached to a door frame or a door molding, and a seal lip that abuts on a vehicle body opening peripheral edge when a door is closed, in which the vehicle body opening peripheral edge side at a tip of the seal lip is formed with a protrusion that abuts on the vehicle body opening peripheral edge when the door is closed, and the seal lip is formed with a hard portion harder than a material constituting the seal lip to extend from a lower region of the protrusion to a root side of the seal lip.
Claims10
A door weather strip sealing a space between a door of a motor vehicle and a vehicle body opening peripheral edge and attached to an outer periphery of a door frame of the door, the door weather strip comprising:
- an attachment base that is attached to the door frame or a door molding;
- and
- a seal lip that abuts on the vehicle body opening peripheral edge when the door is closed, wherein
- a vehicle body opening peripheral edge side of the seal lip, at a tip of the seal lip, is formed with a protrusion that abuts on the vehicle body opening peripheral edge when the door is closed;
- the seal lip is formed with a hard portion that is harder than a material constituting the seal lip and that extends from a tip side of the seal lip at a base of the protrusion to a root side of the seal lip,
- the hard portion extends from a lower end of the base of the protrusion to a direction of the tip of the seal lip,
- the hard portion extends toward an outside of the vehicle at the tip side of the seal lip,
- the hard portion extends toward a base of the seal lip but is not formed in the base of the seal lip, and
- a longitudinal axis of the hard portion extends toward the tip of the seal lip and curves toward the outside of the vehicle.
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