Global Supply Innovative Engineering, LLC

Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.

Ipl Inc.

Randall Leach

Shawn O'Neill

Darin J Snider

David K Johnson

Michel Lanoue

Gary Meyers

Jean-Francois Lavoie

A slip coat composition, a gasket, and a method forming a gasket including a slip coat. The slip coat composition includes an ultra-violet light cationic curable coating composition including hollow glass microspheres and micronized silica. The gasket includes a seal having an exposed surface on which the slip coat is disposed. A base layer defining a first channel is injection molded and a seal is injection molded onto the base layer at least partially within the first channel. The seal includes an exposed surface which exhibits a texture. The slip coat composition is applied to the exposed surface of the seal and cured.

Slip coat for an elastomer

A method of manufacturing a vehicular slider window assembly includes providing at least one fixed window panel, attaching upper and lower rails at the fixed window panel, and movably disposing a movable window panel at the upper and lower rails. Elongated sealing portions are formed by forming base portions of the respective elongated sealing portions via a first shot injection molding process using a polypropylene material, and by forming elongated sealing lips along the respective base portions via a second shot injection molding process using a thermoplastic elastomer. The elongated sealing portions are joined at adjacent ends to form a perimeter seal. The perimeter seal is adhesively attached at a surface of fixed window panel so as to circumscribe the opening and to seal against a surface of the movable window panel when the movable window panel is in the closed position.

Sealing system for movable window of vehicular rear window assembly

A vehicular slider window assembly includes at least one fixed window panel having an opening, and upper and lower rails fixedly disposed at the at least one fixed window panel. A movable window panel is movable along the rails between a closed position and an opened position. A perimeter seal is disposed at a surface of the fixed window panel, with the perimeter seal providing a continuous sealing element that circumscribes the opening and that is configured to seal against a surface of the movable window panel when the movable window panel is closed. The perimeter seal includes elongated sealing portions having respective elongated sealing lips disposed along respective base portions. The perimeter seal is formed via a multi-shot injection molding process, with the base portions formed via a first shot injection molding process and the sealing lips formed along the base portions via a second shot injection molding process.

An apparatus for forming a frame including a rigid thermoplastic portion and a resilient portion defining a lip seal. In particular, a core/cavity mold assembly is provided, wherein the rigid thermoplastic portion is formed, by opening the mold assembly while maintaining the rigid thermoplastic portion in the core, placing the core in line with a second cavity configured and sized to form the lip seal and molding the lip seal directly onto the rigid thermoplastic portion. The mold cavity is provided with movable internal and external stripper rings that allow the resilient portion to be removed from the cavity.

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Davisburg, MI, United States of America

Randall Leach