US 2005/0028448 A1Published application

Door weather strip

AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

InventorsYasushi Mizutani, Atsushi Hashimoto

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Abstract

A door weather strip has a mounting base portion, a hollow seal portion, a sub-seal lip, and a backside seal lip. Leading lips are provided in the middle of a front pillar part in such a way as to connect the backside seal lip to the sub-seal lip. Each of the leading lips forms an acute angle with respect to an extending direction of the backside seal lip. Especially, in an attached state, an intersection angle α formed between the backside seal slip and each of the leading lips is set to be smaller than an angle β formed between the extending direction of the backside seal lip, and a vertical line. A large amount of water flowing down a groove like dribbles does not accumulate on the leading lips. Even just a small amount of the water is positively led to the exterior side of an automobile.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A door weather strip mounted on an outer periphery of a front door of an automobile, comprising:

a mounting base portion;
a hollow seal portion integrally formed with the mounting base portion;
a sub-seal lip provided on an exterior side of the automobile with respect to the hollow seal portion;
and
a backside seal lip projecting between the sub-seal lip and the mounting base portion so that a tip end of the backside seal lip abuts with a door panel of the front door,
wherein the door weather strip seals between the front door and an automobile body by deforming the hollow seal portion and the sub-seal lip when the front door is closed;
at least one leading member, which is continuous at least from the backside seal lip, is provided in a groove formed between the sub-seal lip and the backside seal lip for leading water in the groove to an outside of the automobile by closing off the groove in a section corresponding to a front pillar of the front door;
the leading member intersects with an extending direction of the backside lip so as to form an acute angle therebetween;
and
the extending direction is a direction in which water flows down.

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