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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1999
Zinovy Tyves, Windsor, CA;
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A windowpane retainer assembly for retaining and guiding a side edge of an automotive windowpane. The assembly includes an elongated windowpane retainer fixed along a side edge of the windowpane. The assembly also includes a glass run channel that retains and guides reciprocal motion of the windowpane retainer. The glass run channel is mounted in an elongated channel receptacle in an automotive doorframe. Two retainer ramp surfaces engage corresponding channel ramp surfaces of the glass run channel such that increasing lateral pane extraction forces are countered by proportionately increasing lateral pane retention forces. The pane retention forces reduce or eliminate windowpane slop and prevent the windowpane from cocking within the channel receptacle of the doorframe. Low-friction surfaces minimize or eliminate windowpane wedging and jamming within the channel.