Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Akira Itou

Mitsunobu Teramoto

Tetsuya Niimi

A corner piece for an automobile has a resin insert covered partly with a high molecular elastic material. The resin insert has a bracket body portion and a glass run portion molded together as a unit from a synthetic resin. The bracket body and glass run portions have a common channel along their rear side, and the channel is covered with a high molecular elastic material to form a glass run, or it is fitted with a separate glass run. A reinforcing metal insert is embedded in the bottom of the channel between the bracket body portion and the glass run portion. The reinforcing metal insert reinforces a door belt line, so that the corner piece can mount a large and heavy door mirror and can also be expected to be of improved durability.

Corner piece for an automobile

A side door corner bracket is comprised of a hard plastic bracket base portion having a window glass sliding groove, and a lower rail portion including a window glass sliding groove that extends and continues downwardly from the bracket base portion. The hard plastic base and lower rail have a cover layer that includes a pair of sealing lips that extend along the window groove. The cover is made of a soft material such as soft plastics, soft elastics, or soft rubber.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Akira Itou