Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.

Yasuyuki Fujita

Satoshi Inoue

Syuuji Raisu

Eiichi Baba

Takeo Kawazoe

There is provided a mounting structure of an automobile, wherein a belt line outer weather strip and a center pillar garnish are mounted on a door panel via an end cap mechanism. The center pillar garnish comprises a concave groove in a lower end portion thereof. The concave groove opens in a down ward direction. The end cap mechanism comprises a roughly U-shaped gripping groove in an upper portion thereof and a clip portion in a lower portion thereof. The gripping groove of the end cap mechanism holds a cut upper end portion of the belt line outer weather strip and an upper concave groove portion of the center pillar garnish as well as an upper pass hole portion of the center pillar portion. The clip portion is inserted into a mounting hole of the door panel.

Mounting structure of automobile door

There is provided a weather strip for a car without a metal insert which comprises a grip part having a U-shaped grip body in section and a seal part integrally molded to the outer surface of the grip part. The weather strip is installed to a flange provided to a door opening, a trunk portion and the like. The grip body is unprovided with a metal insert, and, at least, the bottom wall and the inner wall of the grip part is made of highly hardened rubber or resin having a hardness of more than Hs 90 degree.

Weather strip for car without metal insert

A weather strip to be attached to sides of a foldable, detachable, movable roof of a vehicle, the weather strip composed of an extrusion portion and a mold portion. The extrusion portion has a base, a hollow seal, the hollow seal having an upper portion directing toward an outside of a vehicle so as to form a convex portion for contacting an upper portion of a door glass, a bridge portion provided in the hollow seal by halving hollow portion of the hollow seal vertically, the bridge portion being constricted at an inner intermediate portion thereof, a seal lip projecting from a lower portion of the hollow seal for elastically contacting the door glass, the seal lip directing outward of the vehicle. The mold portion has the bridge portion and the seal lip which are the same as those of the extrusion portion. Accordingly, the sealing property and external appearance of the transfer portion and the mold portion can be improved. Further, there are provided engaging portions and having first and second confronted surfaces, wherein the confronted surfaces have non-seal portions on which tapered convex and convex portions are formed, and wherein the tapered convex portion engage with the tapered concave portion. With the arrangement of the present invention, even if there is uneven fitting in the weather strip, such uneven fitting can be sufficiently absorbed, so as to maintain an excellent sealing property and sound insulation property.

Weather strip

A weather strip to be attached to sides of a foldable, detachable, movable roof of a vehicle, the weather strip composed of an extrusion portion and a mold portion. The extrusion portion has a base, a hollow seal, the hollow seal having an upper portion directing toward an outside of a vehicle so as to form a convex portion for contacting an upper portion of a door glass, a bridge portion provided in the hollow seal by halving hollow portion of the hollow seal vertically, the bridge portion being constricted at an inner intermediate portion thereof, and a seal lip projecting from a lower portion of the hollow seal for elastically contacting the door glass, the seal lip directing outward of the vehicle. The mold portion has the bridge portion and the seal lip which are the same as those of the extrusion portion. Accordingly, the sealing property and external appearance of the transfer portion and the mold portion can be improved. Further, one of the mold portions is detachable or movable and is guided in a detachable direction or moving direction. The mold portions have engaging portions which are engaged with and complement each other at contacting end surfaces thereof when mounted on another mold portions, and wherein the engaging portions have saw-toothed convex and concave portions so as to maintain an effective sealing repulsive force.

A sealing strip for use on a convertible to seal the joint between the front pillar and the window glass of a front door integrally comprising: an extruded section having a longitudinal groove, a hollow upper sealing part formed on one side of the groove, a hollow lower sealing part formed on the other side of the groove, and a bridge interconnecting the upper sealing part and the lower sealing part; a molded section continuous with the extruded section, having an external shape substantially the same as that of the extruded section, and integrally having a longitudinal center groove, a hollow part having a hollow upper sealing part formed on one side of the center groove, and a hollow lower sealing part formed on the other side of the center groove and provided with a lip, and a bridge formed at least in a range in the hollow part so as to interconnect a portion of the upper sealing part and a corresponding portion of the lower sealing part.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yasuyuki Fujita