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Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Junichi Furuyama

Masayuki Saito

Hirotaka Nishijima

Hiromitsu Nishikawa

A door trim is made up of two divided trims of an upper trim and a lower trim . A door elevating mechanism composed of a guide rail , a motor , a step lamp , a speaker grille , are subassembled to the lower trim . In particular, the motor is mounted on an extended attachment element formed by extending the upper part of a pocket back cover constituting a pocket of the lower trim . The lower trim configured in this manner is mounted to an inner panel . After a door glass is installed to the door elevating mechanism , the upper trim is mounted to the inner panel . Therefore, even if the area of an opening in the inner panel is not increased so much, the installation work of the door glass can be done easily, and a demand for increased size of the door glass can be met.

Automotive door construction

An automotive door construction is configured so that a door trim is divided into an upper trim and a lower trim ; a glass elevating mechanism is installed on the inside surface of the lower trim so that the upper end of a guide rail projects upward from the upper edge of the lower trim ; and the glass elevating mechanism is inserted from the upper end of the guide rail of the glass elevating mechanism through a mount hole in an inner panel and is housed in a door bag portion and then the lower trim is lowered along the inner panel by which the glass elevating mechanism and lower trim are installed to the inner panel By forming the relatively small mount hole which is shorter than the total length of the guide rail in the inner panel the modularized glass elevating mechanism is incorporated in the door bag portion Therefore, the automotive door construction in which a modularized glass elevating mechanism can be incorporated without the formation of a large mount hole in the inner panel can be provided.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Junichi Furuyama