Movable or removable closures – Panel with closure feature – With means to accommodate window accessory; e.g.,...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-08
2002-07-30
Redman, Jerry (Department: 3634)
Movable or removable closures
Panel with closure feature
With means to accommodate window accessory; e.g.,...
Reexamination Certificate
active
06425209
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a fixed glass mounted at a rear door of an automobile, and more particularly to a weather strip for supporting a door glass of an automobile and adapted to be fixed to a division channel and a weather strip for fixing a fixed glass to a rear door without any assistance from a separate member to thereby improve exterior appearance and to reduce manufacturing costs.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Generally, an automobile is mounted at both sides thereof with a plurality of doors, each rotably hinged to a body for passengers to get on and get off therethrough and selectively locked via a lock device.
A rear door
11
mounted at a rear side of the body
10
is installed at the rear of a front door
12
arranged toward the front side of the body
10
, as illustrated in
FIG. 1
, where the rear door
11
includes a moving glass
13
ascended and descended from inside the door by manipulation of a passenger to contact a door chassis and a fixed glass disposed at the rear of the moving glass
13
and fixed to the door chassis as illustrated in FIG.
2
.
The rear door
11
is vertically arranged with a division channel
15
for dividing the moving glass
13
and the fixed glass
14
while the moving glass
13
and the fixed glass
14
are watertightly mounted on the door chassis via a first weather strip
16
and a second weather strip
17
. The division channel
15
is attached thereon with a separate bracket
18
for fixing tip ends of the first weather strip
16
and the second weather strip
17
on the division channel
15
, where the bracket
18
is integrally formed with a downwardly-bent hitching piece
19
so as to be hitched at a rear surface thereof by a rear surface of the division channel
15
as illustrated in
FIGS. 3 and 4
. The hitching piece
19
serves to fix the bracket
18
on the division channel
15
, by which the bracket
18
respectively secures each tip end of the first weather strip
16
and the second weather strip
17
to the division channel
15
.
However, there is a problem in the bracket
18
for respectively securing the first weather strip
16
for supporting the moving glass
13
and the second weather strip
17
for supporting the fixed glass
14
to the division channel
15
thus described in that the bracket
18
is secured to the division channel
15
via the hitching piece
19
integrally formed therebehind, such that detachability and attachability are not good and the bracket
18
cannot be reused once the hitching piece
19
is broken.
There is another problem in the bracket
18
for securing the tip ends of the first weather strip
16
and the second weather strip
17
on the division channel
15
in that the bracket
18
is outwardly protruded from the first weather strip
16
and the second weather strip
17
to give a bad exterior look and to provide a cause of generating a noise from stepped area when an automobile is running.
There is still another problem in the thus-described structure where the first weather strip
16
and the second weather strip
17
are secured to the division channel
15
in that use of the bracket
18
is inevitable to increase manufacturing cost.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is disclosed to solve the aforementioned problems and it is an object of the present invention to provide a weather strip for supporting a door glass of an automobile adapted to allow a first and a second weather strip for respectively supporting a moving glass and a fixed glass on a division channel to be coupled face to face and to allow the strips to be secured to a lower tip end of door chassis, thereby eliminating use of a separate part and stepped portion thereamong or maintaining a good exterior appearance.
In accordance with the object of the present invention, there is provided a weather strip for supporting a door glass of an automobile having a door mounted with a first weather strip and a second weather strip for respectively supporting a moving glass and a fixing glass to a division channel, wherein each upper tip end of the first weather strip and the second weather strip is formed with a correspondingly facing stepped surface, the stepped surfaces being correspondingly contacted therebetween and the second weather strip is integrally formed therebehind with a protruder having a upwardly opened recess, where the recess of the protruder is inserted by a lower coupling part of an external door panel to allow the first weather strip and the second weather strip to be respectively secured to the division channel.
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patent: 4653230 (1987-03-01), Seo et al.
patent: 4800681 (1989-01-01), Skillen et al.
patent: 4988142 (1991-01-01), Chandler et al.
patent: 5317835 (1994-06-01), Dupuy et al.
patent: 2254354 (1992-10-01), None
Christie Parker & Hale LLP
Hyundai Motor Company
Redman Jerry
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