Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideshi Tsuchida

Eiichi Baba

Tsuyoshi Noda

A weather strip includes a body side weather strip and an inner seal attached to opposite ends of a die formed part for use at a door opening edge of a car body. The inner seal has a grip with an embedded metal core for insertion into a body flange. The upper end of the inner seal is formed as a cut end face that connects to die formed part and a gap exists between a roughly triangular base part of the die formed part and at a lip a side surface of the upper end part of the inner seal. When the inner seal attaches to the flange it is curved along the flange and the side end of the base part contacts the inner seal upper end part to close the gap.

Weather strip

There is provided a sealing structure in a convertible type vehicle in which a roofis opened by folding or removing the roof, wherein a weather stripmounted to a headercomprises seal portions, which seals a gap by making a resilient contact with the hoodwhen the hoodis in a closed position. A roof side weather stripmounted to a side edge of the hoodcomprises a sub-seal portionwhich seals a gap formed with the hood. A fin shape seal portionis projecting formed at a front end of the sub-seal portion, where a front end of the seal portionmakes a resilient contact with a seal portionof the weather stripwhen the hoodis in a closed position, thereby sealing a contacting portion formed between the weather stripand the front end of the roof side weather strip

Sealing structure for convertible type vehicle

In a hardtop vehicle a partition and a glassrun are mounted at both sides of a center sash. The partition can receive a triangular glass of a front door and the glassrun can receive a front glass. The center sash has a die-molded portion with a thin tip end at an upper edge thereof. A roofside weatherstrip is provided. The partition, glass run and die-molded portion each include a water receiver composed of lip pieces extending along the vehicle interior side of the center sash. An opening at the upper end of each water receiver is positioned below the roofside weatherstrip when the door is closed. Each water receiver provides a clearance extending the length of the center sash and into the door below the belt line so that water discharges below the belt line.

Sealing structure including a water receiver for an automobile

A retainerless weather strip attached to a full door type door panel of an automobile by an attaching element except for a retainer, which comprises: a base portion to be fixed to an attaching portion of the door panel by at least one of a clip and an adhesive double coated tape; a hollow seal portion provided on an automobile interior side of the base portion so as to come into elastic contact with an automobile body; a seal lip portion provided on an automobile exterior side of the base portion, the seal lip portion comprising an upper end portion and an intermediate portion, so that the upper end portion of the seal lip portion comes into elastic contact with an automobile body and that the intermediate portion of the seal lip portion comes into elastic contact with a door panel; an end edge portion protruded from a lower end portion of the base portion on the automobile exterior side; and a neck portion formed in a connecting portion of the base portion with the seal lip portion on the automobile exterior side.

Retainerless weather strip

A retainerless weather strip to be fixed to a door panel of an automobile by a clip, which comprises: a base bottom portion to be attached to the door panel; a hollow seal portion to seal between the door panel and a body panel; and a seal lip portion, wherein the base bottom portion has a cutout-shaped step portion formed at a lower end portion on the automobile exterior side of the base bottom portion, and the weather strip further comprises a thick waterproof sponge member provided on the cutout-shaped step portion, wherein the thick waterproof sponge member has a thickness sufficiently larger than the depth of the cutout-shaped step portion, and has an elasticity such that a portion in which the clip is located and portions in which the clip is not located can be equally elastically contracted when the base bottom portion is fixed to the door panel by the clip so that watertightness is kept between the thick waterproof sponge member and the door panel.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hideshi Tsuchida