JP2000016092A - Terminal structure of door weather strip - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constantly guide a door glass back edge part 11 to a door glass slide part 5. SOLUTION: In a back terminal part of a door weather strip having a glass slide part 5 having a roughly U-shaped cross section comprising a pair of side walls 9, 10 respectively facing both side surfaces of a door glass back edge part 11 close to a door waist line and a bottom wall 13 facing a glass end surface 12 of the door glass back edge part 11, to which a door side weather strip 17 is applied when a door is closed, an outer side end part 15 of the bottom wall 13 is overhung to the outer side of a track A of an inner side end part 14 of the bottom wall 13 by opening and closing a door, and the bottom wall 13 is formed to gradually become thicker from the inner side end part 14 toward the outer side end part 15. A gap is not generated between an outer side wall 9 and a door inner panel 6a, and therefore the door glass back end edge 11 is constantly guided into the door glass slide part 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a terminal structure of a door weather strip of a hard-top vehicle, and more particularly to a structure of a sliding portion of a door glass for guiding a rear edge portion of the door glass.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Door weather strips are attached to the periphery of a door panel of an automobile.

A rear terminal portion 30 as shown in FIG. 5 is integrally connected to a terminal on the rear side of the vehicle body of the door weather strip by molding. The rear terminal portion 30 includes a vehicle-side mounting wall 31 having a substantially L-shaped cross section and the vehicle-side mounting wall 3.
An upright wall 32 substantially perpendicular to the inner wall 1 and an inner wall 33 substantially perpendicular to the upright wall 32 and substantially parallel to the outer wall 31;
, And a glass sliding portion 34 is formed on the upright wall 32.

[0006] As shown in FIG. 6, the rear terminal section 30 has an outer side mounting wall 31 having an outer side door inner panel 3.
5a, and a vehicle interior mounting wall 33 is sandwiched between a door inner panel 35b and a door trim 36 on the vehicle interior.

The glass sliding portion 34 has a pair of side walls 37, 38 substantially parallel to the door inner panel 35 and a pair of side walls 37, 38 so as to face the glass end surface of the rear edge of the door glass. And a bottom wall 39 to be connected. When the door glass moves up and down, the rear edge of the door glass is slidably guided.

[0006]

In the rear end portion 30 having such a structure, when the door is closed, as shown in FIG. 7, a body side weather in which the inner side wall 38 is attached to the body side panel 40 is provided. At this time, the inner wall 42 of the bottom wall 39 may be deformed so as to fall backward (to the left in FIG. 7).

For this reason, the side wall 37 on the outside of the vehicle is
Is caused toward the inside of the vehicle with the deformation of the vehicle, a gap 44 is generated between the side wall 37 on the outside of the vehicle and the door inner panel 35a, and after closing the door with the door glass lowered, When trying to raise the door glass, there is a problem that the rear edge 45 of the door glass is guided in the gap 44.

[0008]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a rear edge portion of a door glass is located at a terminal on a rear side of a vehicle body of a door weather strip attached to a peripheral edge of a door panel of a hardtop vehicle and near a door waist line. And a glass sliding portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section having a pair of side walls opposing each other on both side surfaces and a bottom wall opposing an end surface of a rear edge portion of the door glass. In the rear end portion of the door weather strip where the side wall on the vehicle interior side contacts the body side weather strip attached to the door opening of the vehicle body, the vehicle exterior end of the bottom wall is the vehicle interior end of the bottom wall. The bottom wall is formed so as to protrude outward from the trajectory accompanying the opening and closing of the door so that the thickness of the bottom wall gradually increases from the inner end to the outer end. As a result, when the door weather strip abuts on the inner side wall of the glass sliding portion, the inner side end of the bottom wall is deformed so as to fall down toward the inside of the above-mentioned trajectory. Is not caused toward the inside of the vehicle due to the deformation of the vehicle.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a door weatherstrip attached to a peripheral edge of a door panel of a hardtop vehicle is located at a terminal on a rear side of the vehicle body, and faces both sides of a rear edge portion of a door glass near a door waist line. A glass sliding portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section having a pair of side walls and a bottom wall facing the end surface of the rear edge portion of the door glass,
When the door is closed, at the rear end of the door weather strip where the inner side wall of the glass sliding portion abuts the body side weather strip attached to the door opening of the vehicle body, the outer side end of the bottom wall is To be located outside the trajectory accompanying the opening and closing of the door at the inner end of the bottom wall,
It is characterized in that the bottom wall is formed to be inclined.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, a molded rubber rear terminal 1 is integrally connected to a terminal on the rear side of the vehicle body of the door weather strip attached to the periphery of the door panel.

[0012] The rear terminal portion 1 includes a vehicle exterior mounting wall 2 and
An upright wall 3 substantially perpendicular to the outer side mounting wall 2 and an inner side mounting wall 4 substantially perpendicular to the upright wall 3 and substantially parallel to the outer side mounting wall 2 are formed in a stepwise manner. Further, a glass sliding portion 5 is provided near the door waist line.

The vehicle exterior mounting wall 2 is fixed to a vehicle interior door inner panel 6a by a pin 7, and the vehicle interior mounting wall 4 is connected to the vehicle interior door inner panel 6b as shown in FIG. It is pinched by the door trim 8.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the glass sliding portion 5 has a pair of side walls 9 and 10 substantially parallel to the door inner panels 6a and 6b and a glass end surface 12 of a rear edge portion 11 of the door glass. And a bottom wall 13 connecting the pair of side walls 9 and 10 so as to face each other.
The rear edge 11 of the door glass is slidably guided into the glass sliding portion 5.

The bottom wall 13 has an exterior end 15 of the bottom wall 13 protruding outside the trajectory A with respect to a trajectory A associated with opening / closing of a door at an interior end 14 of the bottom wall 13. The bottom wall 13 is formed such that the thickness gradually increases from the inside end 14 to the outside end 15.

In the terminal structure of the door weather strip configured as described above, when the door is closed and the side wall 10 inside the vehicle comes into contact with the body side weather strip 17 attached to the body side panel 16, the bottom wall is closed. 13 is deformed so that the inside end 14 of the vehicle falls down toward the inside of the trajectory A (the right side in FIG. 2).

Therefore, the side wall 9 on the outside of the vehicle is not raised toward the inside of the vehicle due to the deformation of the bottom wall 13, so that even when the door is closed with the door glass lowered. There is no gap between the side wall 9 on the outside of the vehicle and the door inner panel 6a, and the rear edge of the door glass is reliably guided into the door glass sliding portion 5.

That is, it is possible to reliably prevent the rear edge 11 of the door glass from entering between the door glass sliding portion 5 and the door inner panel 6a.

Further, when the door is closed, the glass sliding portion 5 is deformed only by the bottom wall 13 and the side walls 9 and 10 are hardly deformed. Therefore, the amount of deformation of the entire glass sliding portion 5 is small, so that the door glass can be raised and lowered. It can be done smoothly.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. The terminal structure of the door weather strip according to the second embodiment is substantially the same as that of the first embodiment, except that the bottom wall 18 is formed to have a certain thickness and the bottom wall 18 The outer end portion 20 is formed so as to be inclined so as to be located outside the trajectory A (left side in FIGS. 3 and 4) associated with opening and closing of the door at the vehicle inner end portion 19 of the bottom wall 18.

In the second embodiment constructed as described above, when the door glass sliding portion 5 comes into contact with the body side weather strip 17, the bottom wall 18 is deformed so as to fall down toward the inside of the locus A.

Therefore, similarly to the first embodiment, there is no gap between the side wall 9 on the vehicle exterior and the door inner panel 6a on the vehicle exterior, and the sliding between the door glass sliding portion 5 and the door inner panel 6a does not occur. It is possible to reliably prevent the rear edge portion 11 of the door glass from entering therebetween, and it is possible to smoothly move the door glass up and down.

[0023]

According to the first and second aspects of the present invention, the side wall on the outside of the vehicle is not raised toward the inside of the vehicle due to the deformation of the bottom wall. Is closed, there is no gap between the outer side wall and the outer door inner panel, and the rear edge of the door glass can be reliably guided into the door glass sliding portion.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a terminal portion of a door weather strip according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line BB of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a main part of a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the second embodiment of the present invention at the same position as in FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a terminal portion of a conventional door weather strip.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of the door terminal taken along the line CC in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the door terminal along a line CC in FIG. 5 in a state where the door is closed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 5 ... Glass sliding part 9 ... Side wall 10 ... Side wall 13 ... Bottom wall 14 ... Car interior end 15 ... Car exterior end

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A pair of side walls located at a rear end of a door weather strip attached to a periphery of a door panel of a hard-top vehicle and opposed to both side surfaces of a rear edge portion of a door glass near a door waist line. A glass sliding portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section having a bottom wall opposed to the end surface of the rear edge portion of the door glass, and when the door is closed, the inner side wall of the glass sliding portion has a door opening of the vehicle body. At the rear end portion of the door weather strip that abuts the body side weather strip attached to the portion, the vehicle outer end of the bottom wall protrudes outside the trajectory associated with opening and closing the door at the vehicle inner end of the bottom wall. A door weather strip terminal structure, characterized in that the bottom wall is formed so that the thickness of the bottom wall gradually increases from the inner end to the outer end. 2. A pair of side walls located at the rear end of the door weather strip attached to the periphery of the door panel of the hard-top vehicle and opposed to both side surfaces of the rear edge of the door glass near the door waist line. A glass sliding portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section having a bottom wall opposed to the end surface of the rear edge portion of the door glass, and when the door is closed, the inner side wall of the glass sliding portion has a door opening of the vehicle body. In the rear end portion of the door weather strip abutting on the body side weather strip attached to the portion, the vehicle outer end of the bottom wall is located outside the trajectory associated with the opening and closing of the door at the vehicle inner end of the bottom wall. Thus, the terminal structure of the door weather strip, wherein the bottom wall is formed to be inclined.