Patents Assigned to Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 11865902Abstract: The present invention reduces the generation of an unusual sound resulting from vibration of a part of a sheet. A first sheet includes: a peripheral portion which is to surround a service hole of a door inner panel; and a central portion surrounded by the peripheral portion, the first sheet having, along a boundary between the central portion and the peripheral portion, a plurality of first holes and a plurality of second holes each of which differs in size from each of the plurality of first holes.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromu Oda, Yoshihiro Kohara
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Publication number: 20240001746Abstract: A length of a sub seal of a door weather strip is sized and dimensioned in a manner that a distance is longer than a length with a glass run coupling to an outer-cabin side of a flange of a frame and the door weather strip coupling to an inner-cabin side of a door with a clip. The distance is between part of a lower part of a top end of the sub seal of the door weather strip in contact with an inclined surface of an upper side wall of the glass run and part of an upper surface of a top end of a lip of the glass run. The length is of a perpendicular line that extends between the sub seal and an inclined plate of the frame passing through the part of the upper surface of the top end of the lip.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro KOJIMA, Yasuhiro MORIHARA
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Patent number: 11780307Abstract: To reduce splash of water that has entered a gap between an upper end of a door and a vehicle body onto a locked portion. A part of a vertical side sealing portion 4 from a part including a water inlet 71 to at least a part above a hollow portion R3 is a die-molded portion. In the die-molded portion, a core removing hole 79 for removing a core used in molding is open at a cabin outer side relative to an attachment plate 80. A guide portion 90 for guiding water that has entered from the water inlet 71 to a cabin inner side relative to the core removing hole 79 is provided above the core removing hole 79 on the inner surface of the hollow portion R3.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignees: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Toshifumi Matsuura, Masaki Soda
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Patent number: 11760178Abstract: When an exterior portion is provided on an exterior surface of an extrusion-molded portion of a sealing member having the extrusion-molded portion and a mold-formed portion, while appearance is made favorable, the exterior portion is inhibited from being damaged. A glass run 20 includes an upper glass run edge 20a which is extrusion-molded, a rear connecting part 20f which is molded integrally with one end portion of the upper glass run edge 20a, and an exterior portion 29 provided on an exterior surface of the upper glass run edge 20a. A surface Si of the rear connecting part 20g on an outside of a passenger compartment is located further outside than a surface of the exterior portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomonori Miyata
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Patent number: 11701955Abstract: A glass run includes a trim strip 40 attached to a side of an upper glass run 24 facing outside of the passenger compartment. A trim strip holding member 50 having a front engagement portion 52 that engages with the trim strip 40 is fixed at a front side of the upper glass run 24. The trim strip holding member 50 is made of a rigid material.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Kojima, Yasuhiro Morihara
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Publication number: 20230166589Abstract: A weather strip couples to a flange with curved parts of a sliding door of an automobile. The weather strip includes an installation base member, a hollow part, and an insert. The installation base member couples to the flange and includes an inner-cabin side wall, a first outer-cabin side wall, and a connecting wall. Part of the installation base member is cut out, to provide a cut-out part. The part couples to the curved parts. The cut-out part is subjected to die molding, to provide a die-molded part. The hollow part is integrally formed with the installation base member by extrusion molding. The insert is shaped in conformance with the curved parts and is embedded in the die-molded part with a plurality of concave shaped parts of the insert abutted with a plurality of pins of a die under the die molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro SASAKI, Daisuke HAYASHI, Yasutaka SHINODA, Motonari INAGAKI
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Patent number: 11634018Abstract: The weatherstrip includes a molded part formed from an elastic material and the molded part has an insert panel embedded therein. The molded part includes: a molded part through hole in which a clip for attaching the molded part to a vehicle body can be inserted; and a thinner portion provided in an outer peripheral portion of the molded part through hole and having a thickness smaller than that of other portions of the molded part in an area of the molded part where the insert panel is embedded in. The insert panel includes a clip through hole provided at a location corresponding to the molded part through hole and having a diameter larger than that of the molded part through hole; and a first additional through hole provided spaced from the clip through hole in an area corresponding to the thinner portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruki Sentani, Satoshi Maesaki
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Publication number: 20230093362Abstract: An end cap couples a shutter to an upper part of a track cargo bed between left and right tracks. A shutter seal member is provided on a rear end of the shutter, and makes elastic contact with a tailgate mounted on a rear end of the truck cargo bed. A bed liner seal member is provided on rear ends of left and right side walls, and includes an installation plate member and a hollow wall. An extended wall extends vertically from part of an upper end of the hollow wall closer to an exterior of an automobile. The hollow wall has an opening at an upper part. A first horizontal surface of the end cap of a sealing structure covers an upper part of the tailgate, and a second horizontal surface faces and contactlessly approaches a top edge of the extended wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsuo MASUMOTO
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Patent number: 11577670Abstract: The present invention provides a weather strip which can be easily attached to a grille of an automobile without the need of a clip. The weather strip is a weather strip which seals a gap between a grille and a hood of an automobile and includes (i) an attachment wall to be attached to the grille, (ii) a sealing wall which comes in elastic contact with the hood, and (iii) an insertion section to be inserted into a through hole. The insertion section includes a rear locking portion and a front locking portion which are locked in the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiyoshi Kubota, Yasuyuki Kato, Yuuji Goto
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Patent number: 11572729Abstract: A protector with a sensor couples to a sliding door. A first end of an insert made of a non-conductive material is inserted in and fills up a space on a hollow part of the protector, and a terminal part is into die molding. The insert includes at least two feeding ports to receive and feed molding material into the insert during die molding. The feeding ports are spaced from each other and formed along a direction in which a wire harness extends. Covered parts are exposed from the wire harness where the covered parts are faced with the feeding ports.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Michihiko Matsumoto, Toshimichi Kawaguchi, Daisuke Hayashi, Wataru Hattori
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Patent number: 11554651Abstract: A glass run includes a body part including exterior and interior side walls and a bottom wall connecting the exterior and interior side walls; an exterior lip projecting from the exterior side wall toward the bottom wall and configured to slidably contact an exterior side of a door glass; and an interior lip projecting from the interior side wall toward the bottom wall and configured to slidably contact an interior side of the door glass. The interior lip includes a base end portion extending toward the bottom wall and is curved to be oriented toward an exterior of the vehicle as extending to its distal end portion, and the interior side wall includes a protuberance protruding toward the exterior, and the protuberance is positioned to be able to contact the interior lip when the interior lip is pressed toward an interior of the vehicle by the door glass to deform.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiko Kamitani
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Patent number: 11548454Abstract: Noise caused by vibration of a door hole seal is reduced. A door hole seal includes a first sheet having a slit formed therein and a second sheet covering the slit from an exterior side of a vehicle. At least a specific region of the second sheet is made of a rubber-like elastic body, the specific region extending from a portion corresponding to the slit to a vertically lower end of the second sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoya Sasaki, Hiromu Oda, Satoshi Endo
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Publication number: 20230003071Abstract: A first end of an insert fills up a space of a hollow part of a protector, and a second end includes an insulator to insulate a first wire connection part where a first leg of a resistor is piled on a first core wire from a second wire connection part where a second leg of the resistor is piled on a second core wire. Die-molding material covers the insulator, the first and second core wires, the resistor, the first and second legs, and the first and second wire connection parts. The insulator has a tabular shape, and the insulator has left and right side ends exposed from a part covered with the die-molding material. The insert includes a second protrusion on a connection part between the first and second ends of the insert. The second protrusion is closer to an inner side part than an inner surface of the insulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicants: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro SASAKI, Daisuke HAYASHI, Wataru HATTORI
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Patent number: 11535093Abstract: Sealing performance is improved without deteriorating appearance. A pillar P side of a roof-side seal lip 34 and a roof R side of a pillar-side seal lip 43 are spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction of a vehicle when a door 110 is open. The pillar P side of the roof-side seal lip 34 is formed so as to be closer to the roof R side of the pillar-side seal lip 43 toward an end of the pillar P side. When the door 110 is closed, the roof-side seal lip 34 comes into contact with the pillar-side seal lip 43.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Nishikawa, Satoshi Maesaki
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Publication number: 20220325570Abstract: An inner-cabin side part of a hollow part of a protector with a sensor extends between a top end and an inner-cabin side end with an inner-cabin side apex closest to an interior of an automobile body. An outer-cabin side part of the hollow part extends between the top end and an outer-cabin side end with an outer-cabin side apex closest to an exterior of the automobile body. Distances are shorter between the apexes and the ends than between the top end and the apexes. A first conductive part includes parts closer to an installation base member than an apex of a second conductive part. Lower ends of the first conductive part have protrusions formed. The protrusions extend to protrude toward the second conductive part from an inner surface of an outer coat of the hollow part and are formed on uneven bases.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicants: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Michihiko MATSUMOTO, Hirofumi NAKAI, Wataru HATTORI
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Patent number: 11433746Abstract: A protrusion is formed on a first part of an inner-cabin side wall of an installation base member of a protector with a sensor. The first part is closer to a connecting wall than a second part opposite the first part. The protrusion is on a virtual line in cross section. The virtual line is where convex substances, keys for example, hanging on passengers' clothes conceivably pass through. The virtual line extends toward a connecting point from a rear part of an automobile body closer to an interior of the automobile body than a reference line. The reference line is parallel with a direction in which a flange protrudes and extends from the connecting point. The connecting point is a part of an inner-cabin side end of a hollow part closest to an interior of the automobile body. The inner-cabin side end is connected with the installation base member.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignees: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Ishibashi, Masahiro Kojima, Michihiko Matsumoto, Wataru Hattori
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Patent number: 11420504Abstract: A part of a touch sensor, which couples to a curve of a flange, includes a raising member. The curve of the flange is on a belt line of a sliding door. The raising member rises outwardly toward an exterior of the automobile from an inner-cabin side wall of the touch sensor. A space is formed between the raising member and an outer-cabin side wall for the flange to be inserted into the space. The raising member includes a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks exist along an upper and lower direction of the automobile body.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Michihiko Matsumoto, Masaki Niwa, Hironori Koeda
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Publication number: 20220227212Abstract: A glass run includes an installation member and a body. The installation member couples to a frame of a door of an automobile. The body forms a channel to receive a door glass. An outer-cabin side of the installation member is extended in a direction away from the door to form an extended part. A base composed of hard resin higher in rigidity than the extended part attaches a decorative film to the extended part. The decorative film alongside of the base is bent toward an interior of the automobile, to cover an end surface of the extended part. Parts of upper and lower ends of the decorative film are removed by predetermined distance FL1, FL2 from the end surface of the extended part, to reduce a width in an upper and lower direction of a remainder part of the decorative film.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira HARUTA, Tomonori MIYATA
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Patent number: 11390152Abstract: A division bar for an automobile is provided between a movable door glass and a fixed quarter glass. The division bar includes an inner-cabin side member and an outer-cabin side member. The inner-cabin side member is formed by integrally molding a receiving part, an inner-cabin side lip, and a seal part. A core is embedded in the receiving part. The core is bendable in an inner-cabin and outer-cabin direction. The outer-cabin side member is formed by integrally molding an anchoring protrusion, an outer-cabin side lip, and a seal lip. The outer-cabin side member couples to the inner-cabin side member by fitting the anchoring protrusion into the receiving part with the outer-cabin side lip making elastic contact with an outer-cabin side surface of the door glass and with the seal lip making elastic contact with the seal part.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Fukushima, Toshifumi Matsuura
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Patent number: 11377897Abstract: A part of a touch sensor which couples to a curve of a flange includes an oblique wall and a seal lip. The curve is on a belt line of a sliding door. The oblique wall and the seal lip are close to an interior of an automobile and fit a shape of the curve. A closure wall extends toward an exterior of the automobile and forms a continuous surface with the oblique wall. The closure wall covers a large space from a front side of the automobile.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Michihiko Matsumoto, Tomohiro Taguchi