Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Let-down type top
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-02
2007-10-02
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Let-down type top
C296S001070, C296S146300, C296S146900, C296S093000, C049S495100, C049S475100
Reexamination Certificate
active
11000311
ABSTRACT:
There is provided a weather strip for a folding top of an open car installed in a divided manner both sides thereof in the proximity of divided rails. Each divided member comprises a hollow seal portion and a seal lip portion comprised for resilient contacts with a door glass. Each divided member comprises a die mold part in a front and a rear end portion. The seal lip portion of each divided member comprises a thick part. The thick part is formed thicker than a thin part. The thick part is provided with a thickness for a front end surface and a rear end surface of adjoining seal lip portions that are located next to each other to make a resilient contact with each other even if the seal lip portion is deformed in the folding top when the folding top is in a closed position.
REFERENCES:
patent: 6010177 (2000-01-01), Fujita et al.
patent: 6189950 (2001-02-01), Kawazoe et al.
Flynn ,Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.C.
Nishikawa Rubber Co. Ltd.
Pape Joseph D.
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