Weatherstrip

A weatherstrip in a motor vehicle body structure having a roof rail defining an upper side of a window opening and a vehicle door having a window pane movable between raised and lowered positions relative to the window opening, comprising:

• an elongated, hollow, resiliently deformable member extending along the roof rail and having an upper mounting portion secured to the roof rail;
• an inboard lip portion on said member extending substantially downwardly from the upper mounting portion;
• an outboard lip portion on said member extending substantially downwardly from the upper mounting portion, a bridge portion opposed to the mounting portion and interconnecting the inboard lip portion and the outboard lip portion;
• the upper mounting portion, inboard lip portion, outboard lip portion and bridge portion defining the hollow of the resiliently deformable member;
• and restraining means disposed within the hollow coactive with the upper mounting portion and the bridge portion to prevent the window pane from moving in a direction substantially normal to the plane of the window opening;
• said restraining means comprising an internal projection portion interiorly of said elongated resiliently deformable member extending into said hollow and disposed outwardly of the outboard surface of the window pane when the vehicle door is closed with the window pane in the raised position, said internal projection portion being integral with said bridge portion but separate from said upper mounting portion.

In a vehicle:

• a vehicle body structure including a window opening, a roof rail defining an upper side of the window opening and a vehicle door having a window pane movable between raised and lowered positions relative to the window opening;
• a weatherstrip comprising an elongated hollow resiliently deformable member extending along the roof rail, said elongated hollow resiliently deformable member having,
• an upper mounting portion secured to the roof rail,
• an inboard lip portion extending substantially downwardly from the upper mounting portion
• an outboard lip portion extending substantially downwardly from the upper mounting portion and disposed outwardly of the inboard lip portion,
• a bridge portion opposed to the upper mounting portion interconnecting the inboard lip portion and the outboard lip portion, the upper mounting portion, and inboard lip portion, the outboard lip portion and the bridge portion defining the hollow of the elongated, hollow resiliently deformable member, and
• an internal projection portion within the hollow and extending thereinto to limit movement of the window pane in said direction corresponding to a direction substantially normal to and outwardly from the plane of the window opening and disposed so that said movement will flex the bridge portion when the pane is in a raised position to cause the internal projection portion to be pressed between the upper mounting portion and the bridge portion to limit the movement of the window pane in said direction.