Tokai Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokai Kogyo Company Limited

Masaki Shiraiwa

Yuji Tanaka

Tatsuya Tamura

Yukimasa Ando

Osamu Kanehara

Hideto Hiwa

A glass run channel mountable along a window frame and made of a thermoplastic elastomer includes a base portion, a pair of side wall portions extending from the base portion, and projections that engage the window frame. A non-slip portion made of material having a larger coefficient of friction with respect to the window frame than that of the thermoplastic elastomer is provided on a face of the base portion opposite to the window frame. The non-slip portion is less slidable on the window frame than the thermoplastic elastomer, and further less slidable due to an orthogonal load produced when the glass run channel is mounted and pressed. Therefore, the glass run channel is stably maintained at a predetermined position in the window frame even if a force is exerted by sliding the window pane repeatedly.

Glass run channel for vehicle and glass run channel assembly for vehicle

A glass-run channel comprises a sectionally U-shaped body which is installed on a window frame of a door of a vehicle and a glass sealing lip which slidably contacts a windowpane 81 which is opened and closed. The rear surface of the glass sealing lip and/or the inner surface of the body are covered with a sliding-contact material formed of a material different from that of the body and having a high degree of sliding-contact performance.

Glass-run channel

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Aichi, Japan

Masaki Shiraiwa