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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/00 ;
Abstract
A vehicle lamp has a plastic lamp body (,) with a sealing leg (,) that extends from the back of the lamp body and is pressure-welded and held on a vehicle body panel (,), via an elastic sealing material (,). The elastic sealing material is formed by injection-molding of a thermoplastic foamable elastomer where the lamp body (,) is inserted into a mold (,A) and the sealing leg (,) is projected into a sealing-material molding cavity (C,). The sealing material is molded over the whole area of the sealing leg and has a transverse cross section that is U-shaped.