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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2006
Kurato Okajima, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kenji Kobayashi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Mitsuhiro Takahara, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masanori Aritake, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kurato Okajima, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kenji Kobayashi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Mitsuhiro Takahara, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masanori Aritake, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A weather strip is mounted on a circumferential portion of a door opening for a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a trim portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section and a hollow seal portion, and a designed lip is formed on the trim portion so as to extend therefrom. An adhesive layer and a flocked portion are formed on a designed surface of the weather strip such as an external surface of the designed lip, the flocked portion being provided with a multiplicity of pile fibers which are bonded to the adhesive layer at one end thereof, which pile fibers are each angled randomly with respect to a normal direction to the external surface of the lip portion.