Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1996-03-04
1998-10-13
Pike, Andrew C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
495001, B60J 1008
Patent
active
058201980
ABSTRACT:
A weather strip is used for a center pillar having a gradually increasing width downwardly along its length, and a roofline of a motor vehicle. The weather strip includes extruded front and rear roofline weather strips, extruded first and second center pillar weather strips, a molded portion which integrally joins the roofline weather strips and the center pillar weather strips, and a molding mounted on the molded portion between the center pillar weather strips. The center pillar weather strips gradually increase in spacing downwardly along the length of the center pillar. The molding gradually increases in width downwardly along the length of the center pillar. The extruded roofline weather strips are placed in a "T" configured mold, and the extruded center pillar weather strips are also placed in the molded but with the gradually increasing spacing. Material is injected molded between the weather strips to form the molded portion. The molding is fastened to the molded portion between the center pillar weather strips.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5105580 (1992-04-01), Akachi et al.
patent: 5383701 (1995-01-01), Okada
Pike Andrew C.
Toyoda Gosei Co,., Ltd.
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