Abstract: A door weather strip structure includes a first weather strip and a second weather strip, fitted into a door sash. A seal block kept in elastic contact with a retainer of the door sash is provided in the vicinity of a connection between a molded part which is a portion of the second weather strip, corresponding to the roof of an automobile, and an extruded part on the side of a pillar, positioned on a side opposite from an extruded part on the side of a center pillar. The seal block prevents water intruding on the molded part from flowing down through the gap passage formed among the first weather strip, the second weather strip, and the door sash making ingress into the interior of the automobile through the lower part of the front pillar.

Abstract: A weather strip contains an extruded portion and a molded portion, which is integrally connected to an end portion of the extruded portion. The extruded portion includes a sealing portion formed by extrusion molding from a sponge rubber, soft thermoplastic elastomer or sponge thermoplastic elastomer, and an attachment portion having a separable core member embedded therein and formed by co-extrusion molding from a solid rubber, low foamed rubber or thermoplastic elastomer. The molded portion comprises a sealing portion formed of a soft thermoplastic elastomer or spongy thermoplastic elastomer, and an attachment portion formed of a semi-rigid resin.

Abstract: There is provided a weather strip for use on a sunroof which can be firmly built in a seal holder even if there occur variations in molding dimensions.

Abstract: In said joint, at least one first lip (17) protrudes towards the inside of a tubular profiled section from a part which is adjacent to the opening panel or frame with which it is used. At least one second lip (18) protrudes towards the inside of the tubular profiled section in the direction of the first lip (11) from the opposite portion of the wall thereto.

Abstract: A weather strip for attachment along a side of a roof of a motor vehicle has a bottom portion to be attached to a door opening portion and a seal wall of which side ends are respectively connected to the bottom portion. The bottom portion and the seal wall define a tubular space of which the height is less than the width thereof. A widthwise inside half of the bottom portion is composed of a solid rubber, and is attached to the door opening portion via a base plate of a roof-side moulding. A widthwise outside half of the bottom portion and the seal wall are continuously formed of a sponge rubber. The widthwise outside half of the bottom portion serves as an extended part of the seal wall, and flexes along with the seal wall when the seal wall is pushed by a door glass upwardly, thereby sufficiently wrapping a peripheral edge of the door glass.

Abstract: A sealing arrangement, such as for a vehicle door opening, comprises a channel-shaped mounting or gripping portion (10) for embracingly gripping a mounting flange (40) extending around the door opening. The mounting portion (10) integrally includes an outwardly inclined support member or lip (34) on which is supportingly mounted a tubular seal (38) so as to be presented to and to be sealingly compressed by the closing door. The tubular seal (38) is advantageously made of open-cellular thermoplastic elastomer material, and is covered by a skin-like covering (42) of closed-cellular thermoplastic elastomer material. The skin-like covering (42) extends from the mounting portion (10), over the outside of the tubular seal (38) and partially over the surface of the support member (34) facing the outside of the one of the channel side walls (14) of the mounting portion (10).

Abstract: A weather strip for the attachment to a periphery of a door frame of a vehicle door by clips, which weather strip is capable of preventing water from leaking into a vehicle compartment through spaces located between the weather strip and the door frame and between the clips. The weather strip includes a base portion which is secured to a weather strip attaching surface of the door frame at intervals using the clips, a water stopping lip which is formed at an outside end of the base portion, and a solid member composed of a rubber which is more solid than the material of the base portion and is embedded in the outside end of the base portion so as to extend in a longitudinal direction thereof, thereby increasing the hardness of the outside end of the base portion and maintaining a high pressing force of the water-stopping lip against the weather strip attaching surface.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for joining the ends of a weatherstrip from inside a channel section of the weatherstrip. A v-shaped fastening clip has a plurality of teeth extending therefrom and the orientation of the teeth can be altered to securely grip both ends of the weatherstrip. The v-shaped clip may also have a structural frame depending from it to define a w-shaped configuration. The w-shaped configuration provides flexural rigidity to the spliced section of the weatherstrip and additional strength and rigidity that is particularly useful for heavy components. The method comprises inserting the fastening clip (either the v-shaped or w-shaped configuration) into the first end of the weatherstrip and then inserting the fastening clip into the second end of the weatherstrip. The teeth of the fastening clip are then re-oriented to mechanically grip the weatherstrip.

Abstract: A weather strip for a vehicle body is disclosed. The weather strip is used for sealing a gap between an opening and a partition panel, and is composed of a grip part attached on the vehicle body, a lip part provided to contact the partition panel, and a connection part connecting the grip part with the lip part. The grip part, the lip part, and the connection part being integral with each other, and upper surfaces of grip part and the lip part are formed approximately as a flat plane so as to improve waterproof property of the weather strip.

Abstract: A weather strip comprises an extruded portion and a molded portion which is integrally connected to a longitudinal end portion of the extruded portion. The extruded portion includes a sealing portion formed by extrusion molding from a sponge rubber, soft thermoplastic elastomer or sponge thermoplastic elastomer, and an attachment portion having a separable core member embedded therein and formed by co-extrusion molding from a solid rubber, low foamed rubber or thermoplastic elastomer. The molded portion comprises a sealing portion formed of a soft thermoplastic elastomer or spongy thermoplastic elastomer, and an attachment portion formed of a semi-rigid resin.

Abstract: An automotive weather strip, with an extended portion formed integrally with a base portion of the weather strip, is bonded with an attachment panel of a door frame by a double-sided adhesive tape. The extended portion is formed as a substantially flat plate, so that the extended portion can be pressed uniformly and quickly by a pressing jig. Thus, the weather strip can be bonded with the attachment panel easily. In addition, only one hollow portion is provided as a seal portion, so that the configuration of the weather strip can be made so simple that it is possible to connect extruded portions of the weather strip with molded portions easily.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a weather strip attached to a flange (2) of a door opening part (1) of a vehicle body and that has a mounting base part (51) and a hollow seal part (52) in which tip ends of side-face projections (521,522) protruding from one side face of the mounting base part (51) so as to increase the width of the hollow seal part (52) toward the tip ends thereof are connected to each other by a seal wall (523). The projecting widths of the side-face projections (521,522) are changed in each of a first part (5A), a second part (5B), and a third part (5C), each of which is provided along a corresponding one of a roofside portion (1A), a front vertical portion (1B), and a rear vertical portion (1C) of the door opening (1). This changes the tilt angle of the seal wall 523 with respect to the flange (2).

Abstract: A sealing structure for forming a seal between a weather strip attached to a door opening portion of a vehicle body, and a periphery of a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a base portion having a generally U-shaped cross-section for attachment to the door opening portion, and a tubular seal portion which expands from an outer side wall of the base portion. A projection is formed in the weather strip so as to project from the outer side wall of the base portion into an interior of the tubular seal portion so as to be spaced from an inner surface of a projecting top of a sealing wall of the tubular seal portion. When the vehicle door is closed, an inside surface of a periphery of a door panel contacts and presses the projecting top of the sealing wall, which faces the projecting end of the projection, while an inside surface of a door frame contacts and presses a side part of the sealing wall apart from the projecting top of the sealing wall.

Abstract: A weather strip for sealing an opening portion around an opening in a vehicle body against a periphery of a closing member for closing the opening in the vehicle body. The weather strip includes a base portion and a tubular seal portion which projects outwardly from an outer surface of the base portion. The tubular seal portion includes a pair of leg portions which project outwardly from the base portion, extending portions which extend from ends of the leg portions in opposite directions along the outer side wall to have an L-shaped cross-section with the leg portion, and a seal wall for connecting ends of the extending parts into an arc-shaped cross-section. The base portion and the leg portions are composed of a solid material while the seal wall is composed of a sponge material. A boundary between the solid material and sponge material is located in each of the extending portions of the tubular seal portion.

Abstract: A weather strip includes an attachment base (10) and a hollow seal portion (30). The hollow seal portion (30) is integrally moulded with the outer wall (11) of the attachment base (10), and it makes a resilient contact with the door (42) when the door (42) of a vehicle is closed. The hollow seal portion (30) has a first wall (31), second wall (32), third wall (33), fourth wall (34) and bridge (35). The bridge (35) is spanned between the second wall (32) and the fourth wall (34). The hollow seal portion (30) includes bending points which bend when the door (42) is closed. The bending points include a connection part (51) formed between the second wall (32) and the third wall (33), a connection part (52) formed between the third wall (33) and the fourth wall (34), and a connection part (53) formed between the first wall (31) and the fourth wall (34).

Abstract: A retainerless weather strip attached to a full door type door panel of an automobile by an attaching element except for a retainer, which comprises: a base portion to be fixed to an attaching portion of the door panel by at least one of a clip and an adhesive double coated tape; a hollow seal portion provided on an automobile interior side of the base portion so as to come into elastic contact with an automobile body; a seal lip portion provided on an automobile exterior side of the base portion, the seal lip portion comprising an upper end portion and an intermediate portion, so that the upper end portion of the seal lip portion comes into elastic contact with an automobile body and that the intermediate portion of the seal lip portion comes into elastic contact with a door panel; an end edge portion protruded from a lower end portion of the base portion on the automobile exterior side; and a neck portion formed in a connecting portion of the base portion with the seal lip portion on the automobile exterior

Abstract: A weather strip having a high sealing capability and an aesthetic appearance when attached to a vehicle body. The weather strip includes an extruded portion and a molded portion connected to the extruded portion and having a trim and a hollow seal. The trim includes a first wall from which the hollow seal extends. The first wall has a slot provided with a rounded corner. A second wall extends from the first wall in a direction opposite the hollow seal. A third wall extends from the second wall in a manner opposing the first wall. The third wall includes a cutaway portion defined at a position facing the slot of the first wall. The cutaway portion includes a rounded corner. A core used to mold the hollow seal of the molded portion is removed from the molded portion through the slot and the cutaway portion.

Abstract: A vehicle has a movable member movably disposed in an opening to close or open the opening. The seal is mounted to one of the movable member and an inner edge surrounding the opening conforming to each other. The seal has a seal portion subject to elastic deformation when being pressed against the movable member or the inner edge. The seal portion is made of a vulcanizable rubber. A base portion is made of a thermoplastic elastomer. The seal portion and the base portion are integrated by coextrusion. The rubber of the seal portion is vulcanized when passing through a vulcanizer.

Abstract: The invention concerns a seal with a profiled section, inside a second profiled section (5) wherein is housed a third profiled section made of an elastically deformable flexible material, whether or not adjacent to the second profile (5) and forming by itself or with the part of the first and/or the second profiled section whereto it is adjacent a sealed tubular member connected to a source of fluid under pressure and adapted under the action of said fluid, to be urged into contact with the inner face of the second profiled section (5) wherein it is housed, to improve the sealing and soundproof properties of the seal when the vehicle moves at a high speed.

Abstract: A weatherstrip having a migration inhibiting layer including a butyl based elastomer, wherein the butyl based elastomer can include a blend of a halogenated butyl and EPDM. The migration inhibiting layer can be located on at least one of a dense portion and an expanded portion of the weatherstrip and is selected to substantially preclude the passage of decomposition products, thereby reducing odor emanation from the strip and discoloration from staining materials. The migration inhibiting layer may also include coloring agents thereby providing a colored weatherstrip.

Abstract: A sound insulating weather strip for automobile comprising: a hollow seal portion to be attached to at least one of a door and a body panel of a car; and a low density foam sponge material comprising a rubber or synthetic resin, and provided at a portion in said hollow seal portion which is to be held and compressed between said door or a glass and said body panel when said door is closed.

Abstract: A sealing strip (6), such as for a vehicle door frame, comprises a gripping part (10) of channel-shape and a tubular sealing part (8). The sealing part (8) is made of material (16, 16A) at least part (16A) of which is verty soft to improve the sealing properties of the strip and to reduce weight. The hollow interior of the sealing part (8) is divided by an interior wall (28). In order to resist partial collapse or wrinkling of the sealing part (8) when the strip (6) is bent to follow a curve in the door frame, the interior wall (28) incorporates reinforcement (30) which may be metal wire or sheet. This is longitudinally compressible but stiff in the perpendicular direction.

Abstract: A profiled seal for sealing between a vertically sliding window pane and a roof frame of a convertible automobile comprises a length of profiled elastomer which is co- extruded with a metal reinforcement. The profiled seal has a three-dimensional shape and can be fixed to connection parts of the roof frame. A holding section having a U-shaped cross-section is part of the length of profiled elastomer and contains the embedded reinforcement which is likewise U-shaped in cross-section. A sealing section is formed laterally as one on a first limb of the holding section which can be placed in a self-clamping and sealing manner on an attachment flange. A foot formed as one on the first limb comprises on a first longitudinal edge adjacent to a free longitudinal edge of the first limb a longitudinal groove into which a dimensionally stable edge flange of a roof of the convertible engages.

Abstract: In the mounting base section of a door weather strip, first and second mounting faces extend in the longitudinal direction while making a right angle with respect to each other. Between these mounting faces, there is provided a twisted face which continues from the first mounting face to the second mounting face. One piece of double-sided adhesive tape is continuously attached to the door weather strip from the first mounting face to the second mounting face via the twisted face, and these mounting faces and the twisted face are bonded to the door by the double-sided adhesive tape.

Abstract: A sealing arrangement between an opening leaf and a frame, one of the frame and leaf providing an elongate recess, and the other of the leaf and frame carrying an elongate seal which, when the leaf is closed with respect to the frame, is received in the recess, wherein the elongate seal includes a plurality of axially extending outwardly projecting formations, and an internal hollow, the recess and the seal being configured such that as the leaf is closed and the seal is received in the recess, a first of the axially extending outwardly projecting formations of the seal engages with a respective first part of an inside surface of the recess and as the leaf is continued to be closed, the seal becomes deformed in a manner to cause the or at least one of the other axially extending outwardly projecting formations to be urged into sealing engagement with a second part of the inside surface of the recess.

Abstract: A molded corner sealing structure of a door weather strip for attachment along a peripheral surface of a vehicle door including a seal lip for abutment on an inner surface of a door projecting edge which projects around the vehicle door to cover an outer side surface of the door weather strip over the entire length thereof. The door weather strip has an additional secondary seal lip for abutment on the inner surface of the door projecting edge under and along the seal lip. The door weather strip is bonded to a roof-side part and corner part of the vehicle door frame with a double-sided adhesive tape, and is secured to the remaining part of the peripheral surface of the vehicle door with clips. The seal lip and secondary seal lip of the door weather strip in combination effect a double seal in the corner part thereof.

Abstract: A glass run of an automobile comprises a channel portion including a bottom portion and inner and outer side walls. The glass run further comprises inner and outer seal lips projecting into the channel portion from the inner and outer side walls respectively. The seal lips have back sides facing inside of the channel portion. At least the inner seal lip is thickened in its wall thickness at its middle portion in a manner that the back side of the seal lip projects more inwardly into the channel portion at the middle portion than at a root portion of the seal lip, thereby forming a convex at the middle portion on the back side of the seal lip while relatively forming a concave at the root portion on the back side of the seal lip. The glass run further comprises a sponge elasticity-reinforcing member provided between the root portion on the back side of the inner seal lip and the inner side wall.

Abstract: A retainerless weather strip to be fixed to a door panel of an automobile by a clip, which comprises: a base bottom portion to be attached to the door panel; a hollow seal portion to seal between the door panel and a body panel; and a seal lip portion, wherein the base bottom portion has a cutout-shaped step portion formed at a lower end portion on the automobile exterior side of the base bottom portion, and the weather strip further comprises a thick waterproof sponge member provided on the cutout-shaped step portion, wherein the thick waterproof sponge member has a thickness sufficiently larger than the depth of the cutout-shaped step portion, and has an elasticity such that a portion in which the clip is located and portions in which the clip is not located can be equally elastically contracted when the base bottom portion is fixed to the door panel by the clip so that watertightness is kept between the thick waterproof sponge member and the door panel.

Abstract: The invention provides a door weather strip structure comprised of a first weather strip and a second weather strip, and fitted into a door sash, wherein a seal block kept in elastic contact with a retainer of the door sash is provided in the vicinity of a connection between a molded part which is a portion of the second weather strip, corresponding to the roof of an automobile, and an extruded part on the side of a pillar, positioned on a side opposite from an extruded part on the side of a center pillar, thereby preventing water as intruded from the molded part from flowing down through the gap passage formed among the first weather strip, the second weather strip, and the door sash to make ingress into the interior of the automobile through the lower part of the front pillar.

Abstract: A sealing structure for forming a seal between a weather strip attached to a door opening portion of a vehicle body, and a periphery of a vehicle door. The weather strip includes a base portion having a generally U-shaped cross-section for attachment to the door opening portion, and a tubular seal portion which expands from an outer side wall of the base portion. A projection is formed in the weather strip so as to project from the outer side wall of the base portion into an interior of the tubular seal portion so as to be spaced from an inner surface of a projecting top of a sealing wall of the tubular seal portion. When the vehicle door is closed, an inside surface of a periphery of a door panel contacts and presses the projecting top of the sealing wall, which faces the projecting end of the projection, while an inside surface of a door frame contacts and presses a side part of the sealing wall apart from the projecting top of the sealing wall.

Abstract: A structure for attaching a door weather strip to a periphery of a doorframe. The doorframe has an inwardly facing protrusion in a projecting edge thereof. A door weather strip has a concave surface formed in its outside surface so as to face and be spaced apart from the protrusion. A channel-shaped groove is formed in a lower part of the concave surface, and a first seal lip is formed along an upper part of the concave surface to close an upper end of a space formed between the projecting edge and the concave surface. A second seal lip is formed along an outside part of the channel-shaped groove to close a lower end of the space, whereby leaked water is received within the channel-shaped groove.

Abstract: A molded corner sealing structure of a door weather strip for attachment along a peripheral surface of a vehicle door including a seal lip for abutment on an inner surface of a door projecting edge which projects around the vehicle door to cover an outer side surface of the door weather strip over the entire length thereof. The door weather strip has an additional secondary seal lip for abutment on the inner surface of the door projecting edge under and along the seal lip. The door weather strip is bonded to a roof-side part and corner part of the vehicle door frame with a double-sided adhesive tape, and is secured to the remaining part of the peripheral surface of the vehicle door with clips. The seal lip and secondary seal lip of the door weather strip in combination effect a double seal in the corner part thereof.

Abstract: A light transmitting panel mounting structure for mounting a transmitting panel is provided with a frame having a mounting flange, a light transmitting panel bonded relatively movably to the frame and a weather strip held by the mounting flange of the frame for sealing a space between the frame and the light transmitting panel. The weather strip has a body portion, a leg portion extending from the body portion to face the body portion for clamping the mounting flange of the frame in cooperation with the body portion, and a hollow lip having a hollow cross-sectional shape and projecting from the leg portion in elastic contact with an end face of the light transmitting panel. The hollow lip has a bent portion that is collapsible while shifting toward the leg portion when the hollow lip is subjected to an external force, and the bent portion is provided with a groove for assisting the collapsing action.

Abstract: An automotive light transmitting panel mounting structure for mounting a light transmitting panel to a frame, includes: a frame having a mounting flange; a light transmitting panel bonded relatively movably to the frame; a weather strip held by the mounting flange of the frame for sealing a space between the frame and the light transmitting panel; and elastic sealing material filled in a space surrounded by the frame, the light transmitting panel and the weather strip. The weather strip includes: a body portion; a leg portion extending from the body portion to face the body portion for clamping the mounting flange of the frame in cooperation with the body portion; and a contact lip projecting from the leg portion in elastic contact with an end face of the light transmitting panel so that the elastic sealing material is prevented from entering between the leg portion and the contact lip.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a trim or a seal member such as an opening trim weather strip. The trim or a trim body in the seal member has a holding lip portion and modified holding lip portions. And the holding lip portion and modified holding lip portions have head portions. The head portions are made to bulge out toward a bottom wall portion at the tip ends of modified holding lip portions of the trim or the trim body of trim portion. The modified holding lip portions are formed so that projecting lengths of the head portions from the end surfaces of tip end portions of the modified holding lip portions, and the thicknesses of the head portions increase in inverse proportion to lip projecting lengths of the modified holding lip portions from an inner surface of an interior side wall portion. Alternatively, a slope inclined with respect to an extension plane of an opening-portion-side surface of a base end portion is formed at tip ends of the modified holding lip portions.

Abstract: A sealing structure for sealing between a door opening portion of a vehicle body, and a periphery of a vehicle door, includes a channel which is formed in an inside surface of a doorframe along a periphery thereof, and a projection which is composed of a rubber-like elastic body and is provided in the door opening portion of the vehicle body so as to face the channel. When the vehicle door is closed, the projection enters the channel to provide a seal between the vehicle body and vehicle door. The channel may be provided in the vehicle body while the projection may be provided in the vehicle door. The channel may be formed with a rubber-like elastic body.

Abstract: A weather strip for hinged double doors, which is to be attached to a door fitting portion of an earlier-closed door of hinged double doors comprising a pair of left and right, earlier-closed and later-closed doors disposed in a rear portion or a side portion of a vehicle, which weather strip comprises: a seal portion which is brought into elastic contact with a side end of said later-closed door to thereby seal off an interior side of said vehicle from an exterior side of said vehicle; a flipper-like seal piece molded integrally with an upper end portion or to each of upper and lower end portions of said weather strip, so that a vehicle-interior-side wall surface of said seal piece is brought into elastic contact with a body-side weather strip attached to a circumferential edge of a body-side opening portion when said earlier-closed door is closed, and a vehicle-exterior-side wall surface of said seal piece is brought into elastic contact with a door-fitting-portion-side corner portion of said later-closed d

Abstract: A thin layer of a magnetizable coating is extruded or coextruded onto a external surface portion of a tubular sponge bulb seal for an automotive door or hatch. The coating is of a thickness, location on the seal and formulation to be selectively magnetized to provide a desired magnetic force level to optimize the balance between effective sealing and ease of door opening.

Abstract: A heated vehicle weather stripping system which comprises a power supply and a number of rubber weather stripping elements each including resilient rubber weather stripping portions and a heating element installed within the resilient weather stripping portion wherein the heating element is controlled by a control unit that prevents the heating element from being heated to a temperature above the point where the weather stripping would be damaged and further activates the heating element to keep the weather stripping above the freezing point and thus preventing the doors and hatches of the vehicle from being frozen shut from frozen weather stripping. The control unit is powered by either 115 volts AC power or 12 volts DC power and is alternatively activated by an on/off switch located within the vehicle, an on/off switch located outside the vehicle, or a remote control on/off sender attached to a key chain of the user.

Abstract: In the weather strip, an extended portion formed integrally with a base portion of the weather strip is bonded with an attachment panel of a door frame by a double-sided adhesive tape. Since the extended portion is formed like a flat plate, the extended portion can be pressed uniformly and quickly by a pressing jig. Thus, the weather strip can be bonded with the attachment panel easily. In addition, since only one hollow portion is provided in a seal portion, the configuration of the weather strip can be made so simple that it is possible to connect extruded portions of the weather strip with molded portions easily.

Abstract: A front door weather strip is annular as a whole, and has one mold molding section fixed to the corner section which is the rear side upper section of a door frame, and one extrusion molding section. The extrusion molding section includes a base section and a hollow sealing section. A seal lip is integral with the part of the extrusion molding section which corresponds to the upper section of the door frame. The length of the seal lip is gradually changed at a front upper corner part. During extrusion molding, the part of the extrusion molding section which corresponds to a front lower corner part is formed as follows: That is, the sealing section is larger in height than the other part. At least the part of the extrusion molding section which corresponds to the lower section is smaller in wall thickness of the vehicle outside base end part of the sealing section than the part which corresponds to the upper section.