Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.

Shingo Tomoyasu

Tomonori Miyata

Toshifumi Matsuura

Yuzo Hirakawa

Akira Haruta

Keigo Matsuda

A glass run for an automotive door, the glass run to be assembled to a window frame of the automotive door from vehicle outside and seal a gap between the window frame and window glass, includes: a glass run body having an insertion groove and attached to a glass run attachment plate extending from an upper portion of the window frame toward the vehicle outside; and a trim strip to be assembled to a side of the glass run body closer to the vehicle outside, the trim strip extending in a vehicle front-rear direction. The trim strip includes a trim strip body made of resin and formed through extrusion molding, and a decorative tape coextruded on a side of the trim strip body closer to the vehicle outside.

Glass run for automotive door

A trim strip has upper and lower trim-strip-side mating portions. A glass run body has, at its exterior part, body-side mating portions and an upper contacting portion contacting an upper part of an exterior surface of the trim strip. The upper contacting portion has a portion contacting the trim strip, and the portion is provided with a coating. The coating is formed of an elastic material reducing the sliding resistance to the trim strip.

Vehicle door glass run and method for assembling the same

A protector with a sensor is installed on a sliding door for detecting an alien substance by touch between two core wires in a hollow part. In a terminal part of the protector with the sensor, the core wires drawn out are connected with a resistor or leads joined with a control unit. A primary seal is formed by injection molding for coating wire connection parts and another end side of an insert and a secondary seal is formed by the injection molding for coating a part formed with the primary seal for forming an external shape of a product.

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Shingo Tomoyasu