Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Yoshio Hosaka

Hideyuki Hashimoto

Nobuaki Kunii

Noriyuki Yoshihara

Shigehito Shibata

Nobuyuki Tanaka

Takanobu Kondou

A frame-attached transparent plate is produced by injection-molding a frame in a mold for injection molding, opening the mold, and projecting the frame in an arched form corresponding to a curvature of a glass plate to press the frame to only a surface of a peripheral portion of the glass plate so as to bond the frame to the peripheral portion of the glass plate. With this, the shape in cross section of the frame can optionally be selected even when the glass plate has a curved portion, and problems such as a poor dimensional accuracy, a poor bonding strength, a poor appearance and so on of the frame can be eliminated.

Method and apparatus for producing a frame-attached transparent plate

A vehicle door comprising an outer panel which is attached to a vehicle body so as to be openable and closable, an inner panel which has a peripheral dimension smaller than that of a panel portion of the outer panel, and which is attached to an interior side of the outer panel, door equipment including at least window glass, a regulator for raising and lowering the window glass, and a door lock, and an inner trim for covering an interior side of the inner panel, wherein the inner panel and the outer panel are secured together so as to form a space therebetween, the door equipment and the inner panel form a door module so that a side of the inner panel confronting the outer panel is provided with the door equipment in a one-piece unit, and the door module is attached to the outer panel so as to position the door equipment in the space by attaching the inner panel to the outer panel.

Vehicle door

A mold for preparing window glass provided with a gasket at a peripheral portion of a glass sheet for a window includes, placing a glass sheet in the shaping mold which has two mold parts to provide an inner cavity in which resilient sealing members are attached respectively to the two mold parts so as to come in contact with surfaces of the glass sheet so that a gasket forming cavity is formed at a peripheral area of the glass sheet by the cooperation of the inner cavity of the shaping mold, the resilient sealing members and the glass sheet, the resilient sealing member is then pushed to the contacting surface constituted by the resilient sealing member and a part of the shaping mold in the inner cavity via a pushing means after the assembling of the shaping mold. The glass sheet, and a gasket material is then injected into the gasket forming cavity to form a gasket.

Shaping mold for preparing a window glass with a gasket

A method of preparing window glass provided with a gasket at a peripheral portion of a glass sheet for a window includes placing a glass sheet in a shaping mold which has two mold parts to provide an inner cavity in which resilient sealing members are attached respectively to the two mold parts so as to come in contact with surfaces of the glass sheet so that a gasket forming cavity is formed at a peripheral area of the glass sheet by the cooperation of the inner cavity of the shaping mold, the resilient sealing members and the glass sheet. The resilient sealing member is then pushed to the contacting surface constituted by the resilient sealing member and a part of the shaping mold in the inner cavity via a pushing means after the assembling of the shaping mold and the glass sheet. A gasket material is then injected into the gasket forming cavity to form a gasket.

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Chiyoda-ku, Japan

Yoshio Hosaka