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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2000
Yuuji Nagahashi, Chiba, JP;
Akira Hoshikawa, Gunma, JP;
Takeshi Arai, Gunma, JP;
Yukio Furugori, Gunma, JP;
Other;
Abstract
An automotive window molding attached onto a circumference of a window glass and arranged at a pillar side of a vehicle body, includes an outside glass abutting portion being in contact with an outside surface of the window glass, an outside ornamental head portion arranged outside of the outside glass abutting portion and spaced apart from the outside glass abutting portion so that the outside ornamental head portion and the outside glass abutting portion are opposed to each other, and a connecting wall portion interconnecting the outside ornamental head portion and the outside glass abutting portion. A drip groove is defined by the outside glass abutting portion, the outside ornamental head portion, and the connecting wall portion, so that the drip groove is opened toward inside of the perimeter of the window glass. In order to allow snow to impinge and break on a tip of the outside glass abutting portion by wiping action of a wiper blade during vehicle driving in the snow, a tip portion of the outside glass abutting portion is configured to protrude toward inside of the perimeter of the window glass more than a tip portion of the outside ornamental head portion protrudes toward inside of the perimeter of the window glass.