With Corner Or Corner Forming Portions; I.e., Corner Seal Patents (Class 49/479.1)
  • Patent number: 11376938
    Abstract: A die molded part of a glass run connects an upper part of a second extrusion molded part closer to a pillar with an end of a first extrusion molded part closer to a roof. An insert panel is embedded in the die molded part with a concave shaped part of the insert panel exposed toward an exterior of an automobile. An outer garnish couples to the die molded part from the exterior of the automobile by fitting a convex shaped part of the outer garnish into the concave shaped part of the insert panel with a second anchoring part on the convex shaped part engaging with a first anchoring part on the concave shaped part. The concave shaped part includes a through hole which penetrates the insert panel in an inner-cabin and outer-cabin direction. A lid closes an inner-cabin side of the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Morihara
  • Patent number: 11214964
    Abstract: A structural insulation panel (SIP) is made of a central insulation material or block core covered with cementitious material. The layers of cementitious material are reinforced with fiber mesh sheets, rebar and corner blocks. The corner blocks are held in thickened cementitious material edges by reinforcement pins that are fixed to the corner blocks. The corner blocks are accessible for lifting the panel and for assembling multiple panels to build a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nexii Building Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Dombowsky, Benedict John Dombowsky
  • Patent number: 11117456
    Abstract: A seal arrangement for sealing a corner region of a window against a vehicle body component of a motor vehicle. The seal arrangement defines a seal plane, a first seal axis and a second seal axis which extends transversely with respect to the latter. A fastening section serves for fastening to the vehicle body component. A seal section has a sealing lip which can be deflected elastically transversely with respect to the seal plane when the corner region of the window comes into contact with the sealing lip, and which extends arcuately from the first seal axis to the second seal axis. The sealing lip is configured as a molded sealing lip over its entire arcuate extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: COOPER STANDARD GMBH
    Inventors: Tomasz Krefta, Lutz Haupt
  • Patent number: 10940746
    Abstract: A door weather strip couples to a door adjacently to a belt line. The door weather strip includes: a fin at a bottom of the door weather strip; a main seal and a sub seal which extend vertically in upper and lower directions on an internal circumference and an outer circumference on a surface of the fin and which make elastic contact with an end of a roof weather strip when the door is in a closed position; a channel between the main seal and the sub seal; and a sealing wall which extends between a top end of the main seal and a part of the sub seal below a top end by a distance such that the sealing wall on the sub seal is spaced from the end of the roof weather strip when the door is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 10799818
    Abstract: A screen assembly for a vibrating shaker is provided. The screen assembly utilizes an elastomeric gasket having a flat profile section and a bulb profile section, wherein said bulb profile section has a hollow interior and is configured so as to form a notched profile section where said bulb profile section connects to said flat profile section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Ruff Equipment, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Wiseman
  • Patent number: 10668840
    Abstract: An upholstery piping component for a vehicle seat includes an elongated anchor and an elongated projection. The elongated anchor is formed from an elastomeric material. The elongated anchor extends along a length. The elongated anchor is configured to be coupled to a first upholstery portion and a second upholstery portion and disposed between the first upholstery portion and the second upholstery portion. The elongated projection is formed from the elastomeric material. The elongated projection is integrally is formed with the elongated anchor. The elongated projection extends from the elongated anchor for at least a portion of the length. The elongated projection is configured to at least partially conceal a seam between the first upholstery portion and the second upholstery portion. The elastomeric material is flexible such that the upholstery piping component is configured to move between a neutral configuration and a modified configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Lombardi, Matthew B. Erdey, Danny J. Lombardi, Nicholas Rosinski
  • Patent number: 10648216
    Abstract: A touch sensor unit includes a pressure-sensitive sensor and a support that supports the pressure-sensitive sensor. The support includes a first portion that is folded and overlapped with a second portion of the support to at least partially enclosed and support the sensor. One of the first portion and the second portion includes a groove, and the other of the first portion and the second portion includes a projection that projects toward the groove. The projection is fitted into the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Taguchi, Hironori Koeda, Michihiko Matsumoto, Takashi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10497961
    Abstract: An integrated metal-and-plastic molded article includes a metal plate having a first surface and a second surface in the thickness direction, a first plastic portion on the first surface, a second plastic portion on the second surface, a through-hole that extends through the metal plate in the thickness direction and opens in the first surface and the second surface, and an intermediate plastic portion arranged to fill the through-hole and to be continuous with the first plastic portion and the second plastic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kunihiro Yamaura
  • Patent number: 10478041
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a main body, a washing tub that is disposed inside the main body and includes an opening formed on a front surface thereof, a door that opens and closes the opening, and a sealing member that seals between the washing tub and the door. The sealing member includes a fixing unit that is fixed to a lower portion of the door, and a sealing unit that extends toward a front side of the washing tub from the fixing unit and is brought into contact with an inner surface of the washing tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Su Ser, Gong Soo Kim, Jae Man Joo
  • Patent number: 10272757
    Abstract: An outer lip is continuous with an outer-cabin side wall which has a linear shape of a hollow seal member. The outer lip makes elastic contact with a surface of a body in a direction substantially perpendicular when a door is closed. A rear lip extends from a position close to a base root of the outer lip toward an outer-cabin side and makes elastic contact with a peripheral edge of the door. A thickness of the outer-cabin side wall of the hollow seal member is not less than a thickness of a vertical part of the outer lip; and an inner-cabin side surface of the outer-cabin side wall of the hollow seal member is closer to an inside of the automobile than an inner-cabin side surface of the vertical part of the outer lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kouji Nawate
  • Patent number: 10174677
    Abstract: Methods and fire sealing systems for a panel of a gas turbine engine are provided. The fire sealing systems include a thermal blanket mounted on the panel, the thermal blanket having a close-out and defining a seal landing at a periphery edge of the panel, a seal retainer mounted to the panel along the seal landing, and a fire seal securely retained within the seal retainer, wherein at least one of the seal retainer or the fire seal comprises an extension portion and a blanket engaging portion such that a close-out volume formed between the thermal blanket and the fire seal above the close-out of the thermal blanket is enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ROHR, INC.
    Inventors: Aleksandar Ratajac, Joseph C. Zecca
  • Patent number: 9718337
    Abstract: A sealing arrangement for a movable window pane in a vehicle door provides a rain channel. The sealing arrangement including a base body which has a receiving region for an edge region of the window pane including projections which oppose one another in the receiving region and having a first projection which extends from the outer projection of the opposing projections from a connecting point into the receiving region and in the closed state of the window pane bears against an outer face of the window pane. A second projection on the outer projection of the opposing projections extends outwardly from the connecting point in order to form a rain channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Joerg Stephan
  • Patent number: 9533556
    Abstract: A sealing element includes a molded part including a tubular segment having a wall, a slit extending in the wall in a longitudinal direction of the tubular segment and recesses formed on the first longitudinal edge of the slit. The sealing element further includes tabs that keep the slit from gaping apart after unmolding the molded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: CQLT SaarGummi Technologies S.à.r.l.
    Inventors: Suleyman Samanci, Thomas Roeder
  • Patent number: 9415671
    Abstract: A door weather strip includes an installation base member and a main seal part. A die molded part on a corner part connects an extrusion molded part on a roof side and an extrusion molded part on a pillar side. An installation base member of the extrusion molded part on the roof side has a foam seal lip. An installation base member of the die molded part has a die molded seal lip connected to the foam seal lip by die molding. Thickness of the die molded seal lip is thicker in a range from a position on a straight part on a roof side of the die molded part to a position on a curve than in a range from a position of connection between the extrusion molded part on the roof side and the die molded part to the position on the straight part on the roof side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruki Sentani
  • Patent number: 9377203
    Abstract: An oven gasket is provided for improved sealing between the door and oven body of an oven appliance as the oven is heated. The oven gasket expands when heated so as to help improve sealing. The expansion of the gasket provides additional compression of the gasket and closes gaps that might otherwise form due to expansion of the oven door as the oven heats. The gasket can be effective even at high temperature oven operation such as e.g., during a cleaning cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Lee Armstrong, Joshua Stephen Wiseman, Paul Bryan Cadima
  • Patent number: 9340336
    Abstract: A sealing apparatus includes a carrier and sealant contained by the carrier. An enclosure interface includes first and second pieces and defines one or more sealing channels that the sealing apparatus may be positioned within. The first piece defines an opening that has a perimeter sealed by the sealing apparatus. When the first and second pieces are mounted together, the sealant forms a first interface seal with the first piece and a second interface seal with the second piece. The one or more sealing channels are interconnected by one or more junction sections that include a volume of sealant. The carrier may define first and second channels that respectively contain first and second volumes of sealant. The method for making the sealing apparatus may include extruding the first and second volumes of sealant into the first and second channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Julian S. Mullaney, Barry Wayne Allen
  • Patent number: 9267728
    Abstract: A system for fastening a furniture front to a door of a built-in refrigerator is provided and includes at least two retaining fittings interposed between the back of the furniture front and the front of the door of the built-in refrigerator. An ice/water dispenser is provided on the door of the built-in refrigerator, the dispenser being actuatable through a recess in the furniture front, and one of the retaining fittings is arranged directly next to the dispenser between the door and the furniture front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Friedrich Laible, Helmut Steichele
  • Patent number: 9079481
    Abstract: A glass run includes a glass run upper side part which is provided with a core member inside, and formed with a longitudinal recess at a longitudinal end portion, wherein the core member extends longitudinally of the glass run upper side part. A glass run corner part joins a glass run lateral side part to the longitudinal end portion of the glass run upper side part, and includes an extension filling the longitudinal recess of the glass run upper side part. A stopper part is fixed to at least one of the glass run upper side part and the glass run corner part, and configured to engage with an automotive door sash. The stopper part overlaps with the core member and the extension of the glass run corner part longitudinally of the glass run upper side part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KINUGAWA RUBBER IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Nameki
  • Patent number: 9038318
    Abstract: A seal assembly for a vehicle having a first seal and a second seal with a dual end cap disposed between the first and second seals. The dual end cap has a cover that extends beyond the first and second seal, for providing an aesthetic transition between the first and second seals. The dual end cap also has a first projection extending from the dual end cap for coupling the dual end cap to the first seal. The dual end cap also has a hold down feature extending opposite the first projection. The hold down feature engages at least a portion of the third distal end of the second seal such that the portion of the third distal end is sandwiched between the cover and the hold down feature for securing the dual end cap to the second seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: HENNIGES AUTOMOTIVE SEALING SYSTEMS NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norbert Jendrossek, Dirk Cholewa
  • Patent number: 9032668
    Abstract: A roll-up door seal that may be monolithically formed from a single material of uniform density. The seal is sized and adapted to assemble to a standard roll-up door frame without a separate or dedicated frame structure. The seal provides redundant sealing surfaces, positioned to cooperate with both the door and door frame, which ensure an effective and durable fluid tight seal between the cargo space enclosed by the roll-up door and the ambient environment. The seal may be produced by extrusion from a flexible, weather resistant material such as EPDM, thereby providing a low cost solution for sealing roll-up doors having industry standard door frame constructions. The seal is firmly engageable with the door frame, such that the seal may be installed with little or no secondary fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Press-Seal Gasket Corporation
    Inventors: Graham E. Blackwood, Michael R. Miller, John M. Kaczmarczyk
  • Patent number: 8991102
    Abstract: A door weather strip for a motor vehicle, which can be readily produced, and readily and securely attached to a corner of a door frame without coming off the same. In an upper side section and an upper side part of a corner section of the door weather strip, the door weather strip includes an exterior weather strip, an interior weather strip and a connecting section. The exterior weather strip includes an exterior base portion for attachment to the door frame or a door molding, and an exterior seal portion for contacting a door opening portion of a vehicle body when a door is closed, and the interior weather strip includes an interior base portion and an interior seal portion. A reinforcing rib is formed in a rear surface of the exterior base portion in the upper side part of the corner section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Minagawa, Teruyuki Okajima, Harumi Kogiso, Tsuyoshi Miyake
  • Patent number: 8973307
    Abstract: A door weather strip includes an upper extrusion molded part installed on a door sash on a roof side; a molded part without a slit thereon, connected to the upper extrusion molded part on a door corner part; and a lower extrusion molded part installed on a vertical part of the door sash and detachably inserted into the molded part; the upper and lower extrusion molded parts and the molded part having a base bottom part and a hollow seal member formed thereon, in which: a seal bead is formed on the molded part, the seal bead extending from an inner-cabin side toward an outer-cabin side relative to the base bottom part of the molded part on the roof side and descending along an outer-cabin side of a part of the molded part on the vertical part side of the door sash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomofumi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 8782955
    Abstract: A sealing structure, of which an upper end part makes elastic contact with a roof weather strip which is installed along a side edge of a roof and extending in a front and rear direction, includes an installation base member installed on a quarter sash provided on a front side of a quarter window glass of a retractable roof vehicle, (that lifts and lowers together with the quarter window glass). The sealing structure also includes a hollow seal part which makes elastic contact with a side window glass, and a seal lip, An upper end part has a seal wall formed thereon, which covers a front side corner part of the upper end part from an inner-cabin side, which is protrudingly formed toward an outer-cabin side and makes elastic contact with the side window glass from an inner-cabin side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kousuke Mori, Hirofumi Ogawa, Shinya Murakami
  • Patent number: 8726576
    Abstract: A glass run channel assembly of the invention includes a connecting glass run channel that is connected to first and second glass run channels, respectively. A base bottom portion of the connecting glass run channel is formed with an insertion hole to which an engaging member can be attached, and lateral inner walls that configure the periphery of the insertion hole are formed with locking portions that are locked to a trunk portion when the engaging member is inserted into the insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Funada
  • Patent number: 8695279
    Abstract: Provided is a door frame assembly that enables a molding portion to be bent with ease and in which end portions of a door frame do not rust due to the entry of raindrops or the like. A second end portion B that follows on a second flange portion of a door frame is located between an inner wall portion of a glass run channel and a portion of a main frame portion that faces the inner wall portion. An engagement portion of the molding portion is partially connected to a third side wall portion at multiple locations along the direction in which a vertical door frame assembly extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eisuke Sato
  • Patent number: 8667737
    Abstract: A weather seal for a door of a vehicle includes a base configured to be attached to the door. At least one seal lip extends longitudinally along the base and outwardly from the base, the seal lip configured to sealingly engage a door sill of the vehicle to close a gap formed between the door and the sill. At least one shield is coupled to at least one of the base and the seal lip. The shield is located proximate a predetermined exterior portion of a body of the vehicle when the door is proximate the sill, the shield covering the exterior body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Raymond W. Hughes, Jr., Kenneth M. Hartlaub
  • Patent number: 8667738
    Abstract: A glass run channel assembly which is made of an elastic polymeric material and which is capable of being mounted to a vehicle, including: a first long glass run channel, a second long glass run channel and a connecting glass run channel which connects the first and second glass run channels, the connecting glass run channel comprising a base bottom portion. The base bottom portion is provided with a projection portion which projects from an outer circumferential side surface of the base bottom portion. The projection portion includes at least a portion of a reinforcing member. The reinforcing member is molded in advance from a material which is harder and more rigid than the elastic polymeric material of the connecting glass run channel, and the reinforcing member includes a base portion arranged at the base bottom portion and a trunk portion which projects towards an outer circumferential side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Kondo, Hiroyuki Ito, Tatsuya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20140059940
    Abstract: A door weather strip includes an upper extrusion molded part installed on a door sash on a roof side; a molded part without a slit thereon, connected to the upper extrusion molded part on a door corner part; and a lower extrusion molded part installed on a vertical part of the door sash and detachably inserted into the molded part; the upper and lower extrusion molded parts and the molded part having a base bottom part and a hollow seal member formed thereon, in which: a seal bead is formed on the molded part, the seal bead extending from an inner-cabin side toward an outer-cabin side relative to the base bottom part of the molded part on the roof side and descending along an outer-cabin side of a part of the molded part on the vertical part side of the door sash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomofumi EGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8646213
    Abstract: A glass run capable of being readily attached to corner parts of a door frame of a door of a motor vehicle such that an end edge of a corner cover of the glass run can be securely engaged with an end of a corner piece. A corner cover adapted to cover a vehicle-exterior surface of the corner piece like an arcuate configuration is formed in a corner section of the glass run. An arcuate end edge of the corner cover defines a corner cover lip for contacting an end of the corner piece, and a corner cover engaging wall is formed in the corner cover so as to protrude inwardly from a vehicle-interior surface of the corner cover lip. The corner cover engaging wall and the corner cover lip define an engaging groove, and a plurality of corner cover inclination ribs are formed so as to respectively have an inclined surface connecting the corner cover engaging wall and the vehicle-interior surface of the corner cover lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hisayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8631609
    Abstract: A weatherstrip and method of manufacturing an integral close-out or trim to seal off the weatherstrip is disclosed. A notched region in a seal fin accommodates the intersecting weatherstrip. The first seal fin further includes a cut line extending through one end to form the integral dose-out. In this manner, separate foam pads typically used to seal along opposite ends of the first weatherstrip can be eliminated, along with the attendant costs associated with material and labor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.
    Inventor: Rodney Wichman
  • Patent number: 8595984
    Abstract: The flexible door seal device provides for sealing against air leaks around a door and doorway without interfering with door opening and closing. The flexible device is easily installed and removed without need of any tools. Also, the device can be rolled or folded into a compact size for transport and storage as needed. The device is self-retained until removed from a door. Retention is accomplished by way of the pockets disposed at each corner. Ideally, the device may be seamless. The device provides a positive seal by way of the insert and the inner flap and outer flap that overlap any space between a door and a jamb. The outer flap is sufficient to overlap drywall, trim, and other door surrounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: John D. Wells
  • Patent number: 8572897
    Abstract: A weatherstrip cinch clip for an automobile including a substantially vertically aligned first wall, a substantially vertically aligned second wall extending substantially perpendicularly to the first wall, and a substantially horizontally aligned prong extending away from the second wall in a direction substantially parallel to the first wall, wherein the prong is configured to extend substantially within a prong receiving aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Todd William Dishman, Tracy Christopher Bakos, Jim Antime Marleau, Ken Michael Reo
  • Patent number: 8490334
    Abstract: A glass run includes an upper side portion, a front vertical portion, a rear vertical portion, a front corner portion, a rear corner portion and an ornamental molding portion. An upper end of the molding portion is integrally jointed to the rear corner portion, and a lower end of the ornamental molding portion extends obliquely so as to be positioned frontwardly of the rear corner portion. The ornamental molding portion includes a base part and an ornamental lip part. The base part and the ornamental lip part hold a tip end of an outer panel of the door frame. The ornamental lip part is formed such that an upper end thereof is formed continuously with an outer cover lip of the rear corner portion, and a lower end thereof contacts an outer weather strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miura, Yuki Ichinoo, Toru Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8479449
    Abstract: A sealing, trimming or guiding strip (15) for windows of a motor vehicle comprises a loop formed around the fixed quarter light (11) of the vehicle and a further loop formed around the sliding main window (9) of the rear door of the vehicle. This strip comprises an extruded part (19) extending along both loops to provide a pleasing continuous appearance for the exterior of the vehicle. A portion of the extruded material (19) is cut away and replaced by molded material molded onto the extruded part (19) for the portion of the strip into which the quarter light (11) is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Titz
  • Patent number: 8474189
    Abstract: A weather strip for use with a frame structure having a sharp corner, the weather strip comprising a stem portion and a bulb portion secured to a first end of the stem portion, where the bulb portion has a bulb wall comprising a soft thermoplastic elastomeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Intek Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Peterson, Joel T. Rhode
  • Patent number: 8464472
    Abstract: A weather strip includes a flexible strip main body, and a core embedded in the strip main body. The core includes a core main body having an engaged portion and an engaging leg member to be inserted into and engaged with a mounting hole on a mounting object. The engaging leg member has a first engaging portion for engaging the mounting hole and a second engaging portion for engaging the engaged portion of the core. At least the first engaging portion is not covered by the strip main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: NIFCO Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Araki, Hiroyuki Yoshii
  • Patent number: 8458959
    Abstract: A vehicle door frame structure has an upper sash member located along a roof panel of a vehicle body and also has a vertical pillar sash member located along a center pillar of the vehicle body. The upper sash member has, at its linear end joined to the vertical pillar sash member side, an aesthetically designed section and an inner frame portion. The aesthetically designed section is located on the outer side of the door, and the inner frame portion is located closer to the vehicle interior than the aesthetically designed section and is shorter in length than the aesthetically designed section. The vertical pillar sash member has at its upper end a superposed contact section that is superposed, in the direction of the thickness of the door, on an end of the inner frame portion of the upper sash member, and the superposed contact section and the inner frame portion are joined together while being superposed on each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Shiroki Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ohtake, Kenji Murata, Shigenobu Ohsawa, Jiro Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 8434267
    Abstract: A window assembly for sealingly attaching a window glass to a frame of a motor vehicle door is disclosed. The window assembly includes a sealing assembly in combination with a window glass. The sealing assembly comprises a sealing, trimming or guiding strip comprising a length of extruded material, a polypropylene or the like part which is joined to the window glass at an edge of the window glass, and a molded material, which is joined to the polypropylene or the like part and connected to said sealing strip. The molded material is preferably made of TPE. The strip is preferably made of EPDM. The molded material is molded in a mold with the polypropylene or the like part, which has previously been molded onto the window glass, and the strip to mold onto and thereby connect to these parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America Inc.
    Inventor: Domenico Bocutto
  • Patent number: 8367181
    Abstract: Filamentary materials, such as yarn (18), is wound a frame (28), provided by pairs of movable filaments or wires (35, 38), about which the end of the spindle (22) rotates provides the turns (26) of the winding as the article having the winding is moved along a process path. Mechanically or hydraulically actuated pins (34) support the winding frame in a fixed position. The filaments of the frame may be provided by laterally spaced pairs (44, 46) of filaments of weldable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ultrafab, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Z. Chernyak, Richard T. Arvidson, Alan J. DeMello, Grant E. Wylie
  • Patent number: 8272168
    Abstract: A sliding window assembly for a vehicle includes a fixed panel and a sliding panel. A track includes a first side wall connected to the fixed panel and a second side wall spaced from and extending along the first side wall defining a channel therebetween. The channel receives the sliding panel for movement of the sliding panel relative to the fixed panel. A horizontal seal is coupled to the first side wall in the channel for sealing between the first side wall and the sliding panel. A vertical seal is affixed to the fixed panel and intersects the horizontal seal at an intersection in the channel. The vertical seal extends along the wall into the channel beyond the horizontal seal at the intersection for preventing the flow of water from the horizontal seal past the vertical seal and onto an interior side of the fixed panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: AGC Automotive Americas Co.
    Inventor: David W. Lahnala
  • Patent number: 8256163
    Abstract: A glass run attached to a doorframe of a vehicle. The glass run comprises a molded part attached to a corner part of the doorframe, and a fin, formed integrally with the molded part, and covering the corner part of the doorframe. The fin includes a hook and lip that protrude from a back of a rim of the fin. The lip provides the rim of the fin with increased rigidity and prevents the rim of the fin from turning up and opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Eguchi, Toshifumi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 8225553
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fireproofing a doorway, more particularly, the present invention relates to a gasket structure capable of sealing a doorway in the event of a fire. The gasket structure includes an outer silicon rubber core having a substantially D-shaped cross-section for mounting to a gasket retainer with a substantially U-shaped channel to a door frame. The gasket also includes an inner core of intumescent material within the outer core. The gasket is designed so that if the outer silicone rubber deteriorates because of fire, the intumescent material undergoes voluminous expansion to fill up voids left by the deterioration of the outer silicone rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Robert Redfern, Patrick Arthur Ryals
  • Patent number: 8196354
    Abstract: A glass run for use in a motor vehicle, of which corner sections are readily manufactured with excellent sealing properties. A main body of each of straight sections and corner sections of the glass run has an outer side wall, an inner side wall and a bottom wall, which define a generally U-shaped cross-section, and an outer seal lip and an inner seal lip are respectively provided in the outer side wall and the inner side wall. The straight sections and the corner sections are joined to each other via joints, and the inner side wall is formed greater than the outer side wall. A sub-seal rib is provided to protrude outwardly from an exterior surface of the outer side wall of each of the corner sections so as to face a position in which an end of the outer seal lip contacts the outer side wall when the door glass contacts the outer seal lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoki Ota
  • Patent number: 8157270
    Abstract: A baffle seal for a thrust reverser of a gas turbine engine includes a seal body of a resilient material. The seal body has a relatively flat central portion with opposed front and back sides. A raised sealing rim extends at least partially around the central portion. An outer periphery of the sealing rim extends beyond an outer periphery of the central portion so as to define an exposed sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Chi-Ling Michael Tsou, Carl Francis Holdren, William Andrew Bailey, Dean Thomas Lenahan
  • Patent number: 8127500
    Abstract: Entry systems that minimize water infiltration due to a wind driven rain. In one embodiment, the entry system includes a corner pad that includes an upper portion that seals against the weather strip when the door is closed and a lower portion that is spaced apart from the weather strip to form a gap between the lower portion and the weather strip. The lower portion seals against the door when the door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Therma-Tru Corp.
    Inventors: James W. Meeks, Michael Braun
  • Publication number: 20120023829
    Abstract: A one-piece seal is used between the rear doors of a semi-trailer truck and the rear frame of the truck, the seal having a good compression set resistance. The seal is made from multiple extrusion members that are fused, welded, or otherwise integrally, monolithically connected at corner joints to form a central opening. The extrusion members have a sealing profile, or cross-section, that allows for the compression and deflection of a pair of sealing lobes to create inner and outer seals, respectively, between the trailer frame and the door structure at the rear of a semi-trailer truck, as well as between the doors themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: PRESS-SEAL GASKET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew J. Happel, Myron S. Worley, Katherine A. Bergfeld
  • Patent number: 8104229
    Abstract: An automobile door is provided with a glass run that seals a peripheral part of a door glass which moves up and down. A garnish is mounted along a door frame on a vehicle-interior side thereof. The glass run includes an extension wall portion formed to extend from an end of a vehicle-interior side wall portion in a molded part of a corner portion thereof, and a catching portion that is formed in the vicinity of an inner peripheral side end part of the extension wall portion to extend to protrude into a vehicle-interior and that is caught on a folded portion of the garnish. The extension wall portion includes a deforming portion configured to be thinner than a general part of the extension wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukimura Minami, Kazuo Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8051606
    Abstract: A sealing or guiding assembly for sealing or guiding a corner of a closure member such as a window (109) for an opening is disclosed. The sealing or guiding assembly is attached to a frame (8) comprising panels (22,24). Strips (91) of flexible material extend towards and meet at the apex of the corner and are shaped to receive the closure member (109) at the corner and are adapted to be supported by a corner support which forms part of the frame (8). A flap (170) of flexible material is joined to the strips (91) in the region of the corner and bridges across the corner between the strips (91). The strips include inner lip (102) and outer lip (103). The joins (160) and (162) between the molded flap (170) and the (preferably extruded) material of the strips (91) is obscured from view by the lips (102) and (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus Peter Maaβ, Norbert Heller
  • Publication number: 20110265387
    Abstract: A frame assembly for a window, comprising at least a first frame comprising opposite lateral sides, a bottom and a top side; at least one corner connecting one of the lateral sides to the bottom and the top sides; and compression seals positioned between each corner and an extremity of a lateral side or of the top and bottom sides; each corner clipping into place between a lateral side and one of the top or bottom sides in an auto-sealing fashion around a glazing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: INDUSTRIES SPECTAL INC.
    Inventor: ÉRIC GIROUX
  • Patent number: 8001728
    Abstract: A glass run includes a main body portion including a base bottom portion, a vehicle exterior side wall portion and a vehicle interior side wall portion attached along an inner periphery of a door frame and seal lips extended to an inner side of the main body portion and an entire region in a longitudinal direction thereof is formed by extrusion. The base bottom portion and the vehicle exterior side wall portion and the base bottom portion and the vehicle interior side wall portion are respectively connected by deformed connecting portions. The deformed connecting portion is thin-walled more than the base bottom portion and the two side wall portions and constitutes substantially a J-like shape in a section thereof to provide a predetermined length in a width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taizo Shibata, Hideaki Minoura, Kazuyuki Hayashi