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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2002
Masahiro Nozaki, Nishikasugai-gun, JP;
Katsunori Kawai, Nishikasugai-gun, JP;
Yotoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A door frame structure of a vehicle, of which a door frame is covered with a frame molding. The door frame has a flat peripheral wall extending around a window opening of a vehicle door and a protrusion protruding from an inside end of the flat peripheral wall. The frame molding is composed of a synthetic resin or TPO and is attached to an outside end of the peripheral wall of the door frame. A pair of shelf projections are integrally formed on an inside surface of the frame molding from about a widthwise center thereof so as to be spaced from each other. By press-inserting the flat peripheral wall of the door frame between the shelf projections of the frame molding, the frame molding is secured to the door frame. A glass run having seal lips for sealing a door glass is fitted in a channel having a U-shaped cross-section, which is defined by the protrusion and the flat peripheral wall of the door frame, and an inner half part of the frame molding, which protrudes into the window opening inwardly of the outside end of the flat peripheral wall of the door frame.