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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1997
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A weatherstrip assembly mounted to a body component or a body aperture through a holder includes a weatherstrip having weatherstrip bodies. Each pair of the weatherstrip bodies cooperate to form an L-shaped or a V-shaped corner portion of the weatherstrip corresponding to an associated one of L-shaped or V-shaped corner portions of the holder. Each of two weatherstrip bodies which constitute one of the corner portions of the weatherstrip has a mounting base held between a retainer and a clip which are respectively fixed to the inner and outer faces of the mounting base and which are coupled to each other through coupling pins formed integrally with the clip and extending through the weatherstrip mounting base, each coupling pin having a distal end portion thereof press-fitted into a pin hole formed in the retainer. By engaging respective clips of the weatherstrip assembly with the holder, the weatherstrip can be efficiently mounted through the holder to the body component or the body aperture, and a deviation of the mounted weatherstrip relative to the holder can be prevented.