Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Patent
1993-12-30
1994-11-22
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
494761, 494821, B60J 1012
Patent
active
053662679
ABSTRACT:
A weather strip for a sliding sun roof of a motor vehicle has a base portion which is attached to the peripheral edge of the sliding sun roof, and a tubular sealing portion to be contacted with a frame portion defining a roof panel opening when the sliding sun roof is closed. A continuous single lip extends from the tubular sealing portion. A front portion of the continuous single lip, corresponding to a front end of the sliding sun roof, has a predetermined uniform length sufficient for its top end to reach the frame portion, thereby serving as a seal lip. Left and right side portions and a rear portion of the continuous single lip, which respectively correspond to left and right ends and a rear end of the sliding sun roof have a uniform length shorter than that of the front portion thereof, thereby serving as a drip lip. This continuous single lip is made by continuously forming a single lip having a uniform length enough for its top end to reach the frame portion of the roof panel. The lip is provided with a linearly extending thin-walled portion at its mid-length. The drip lip is formed by tearing off a top end portion of the single lip along the thin-walled portion except for the front portion corresponding to the front end of the sliding sun roof which act as a seal lip.
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Pedder Dennis H.
Toyoda Gosei Co,., Ltd.
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