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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2001
Junichi Furuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirotaka Nishijima, Yokohama, JP;
Hiromitsu Nishikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Other;
Abstract
An automotive door construction is configured so that a door trim is divided into an upper trim and a lower trim ; a glass elevating mechanism is installed on the inside surface of the lower trim so that the upper end of a guide rail projects upward from the upper edge of the lower trim ; and the glass elevating mechanism is inserted from the upper end of the guide rail of the glass elevating mechanism through a mount hole in an inner panel and is housed in a door bag portion and then the lower trim is lowered along the inner panel by which the glass elevating mechanism and lower trim are installed to the inner panel By forming the relatively small mount hole which is shorter than the total length of the guide rail in the inner panel the modularized glass elevating mechanism is incorporated in the door bag portion Therefore, the automotive door construction in which a modularized glass elevating mechanism can be incorporated without the formation of a large mount hole in the inner panel can be provided.