Patents Represented by Law Firm Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP Intellectural Property Group
  • Patent number: 5852898
    Abstract: An extruded weather strip having a tubular configuration and adapted to be bonded to a body wall along a roof side of a vehicle body, which defines a door opening thereof, with a double-sided adhesive tape. The weather strip includes a bottom portion adapted to be bonded to the body wall with the double-sided adhesive tape, and a seal wall including sides that are connected to both side ends of the bottom portion. The weather strip further includes first and second internal bridge members which interconnect the bottom portion and the seal wall. One end of the first bridge is connected to the seal wall at a position inside of where a door window pane will push on that seal wall while the other end is connected to an outer side end of the bottom portion. One end of the second bridge is connected to the seal wall in a position similar to the first bridge while the other end is connected to an inner side end of the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Hikosaka, Masahiro Nozaki