Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Kuzuya

Satoshi Inagaki

Toshiya Miyashita

Yoshinobu Yamada

Masaki Ohashi

Yoshihiro Kurosaki

A weather strip has a trim part adapted to be mounted on a flange, a seal part having a hollow portion and a cover lip. The trim part has a bottom wall portion, and an interior and an exterior side wall portions which constitute a pair of side wall portions and is formed into a shape, as a whole, having a substantially U-shaped cross section, and an insert of a center bonded type is embedded in the interior of the trim part so constructed. In a skeletal piece of the insert, an angle &#x3b8;a formed by a bottom wall part embedded in the bottom wall portion and an internal part embedded in the interior side wall portion and an angle &#x3b8;b formed by the bottom wall part and an external part embedded in the exterior side wall portion are made to form acute angles.

Weather strip

A roof weather strip for use in a convertible car is composed of a plurality of weather strip pieces corresponding to the folding of a sliding roof thereof. When the sliding roof is unfolded to form a roof of the convertible car, longitudinal end parts of adjacent roof weather strip pieces contact each other to define a continuously extending roof weather strip for sealing a side edge of the sliding roof. Each of the weather strip pieces has a base portion, a tubular door glass-sealing portion, and a sliding roof-sealing portion. In each of the longitudinal end parts, the sliding roof-sealing portion is formed tubular, and the tubular sliding roof-sealing portion and the tubular door glass-sealing portion are closed with end faces, respectively, which are provided in each of the longitudinal end parts.

Roof weather strip for convertible car

A weather strip is attached over the entire surrounding part of a door opening of a vehicle. The weather strip is formed by extrusion-molding, and has a trimming portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section and a hollow seal portion. A first projection portion and a second projection portion are formed on an outer face of an outer side wall part of the trimming portion in such a way as to extend to the outside of the vehicle. The seal portion has an end part connected to a leading end part of the first projection portion, and also has the other end part connected to a leading end part of the second projection portion. The second projection portion is placed at the side of an outer periphery of the weather strip, that is, at the side at which an amount of bending-deformation increases when the corner portion of the weather strip is formed. The second projection portion has a thickness along the outer side wall part and a projection length, each of which is larger than a thickness of a general part of the seal portion. A sponge layer extending from the seal portion may be provided on an outer surface side of the second projection portion.

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Hiroshi Kuzuya