Sealing structure for convertible type vehicle

Details Sealing structure for convertible type vehicle Sealing structure for convertible type vehicle

2006-07-04

2006-07-04

Pedder, Dennis H. (Department: 3612)

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Valance

C296S107040

Reexamination Certificate

active

07070224

ABSTRACT:
There is provided a sealing structure in a convertible type vehicle in which a roof11is opened by folding or removing the roof11, wherein a weather strip15mounted to a header12comprises seal portions18, 19, which seals a gap by making a resilient contact with the hood11when the hood11is in a closed position. A roof side weather strip22mounted to a side edge of the hood11comprises a sub-seal portion28which seals a gap formed with the hood11. A fin shape seal portion1is projecting formed at a front end of the sub-seal portion28, where a front end of the seal portion1makes a resilient contact with a seal portion19of the weather strip15when the hood11is in a closed position, thereby sealing a contacting portion formed between the weather strip15and the front end of the roof side weather strip22.

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patent: 6030022 (2000-02-01), Bormann et al.
patent: 6189950 (2001-02-01), Kawazoe et al.

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