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Granted Patent B2
US 12,240,299 · App. 18/505,564 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Vehicle door structure

Inventor: Tomonori Aoyama (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
B60J10/85B60J10/86
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Patent No.
US 12,240,299
App. No.
18/505,564
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle door structure includes a weather strip part including hard member and soft members that are integrally molded, and includes: a base; a first seal portion in close contact with a protrusion in a fitting portion from a vehicle upper side; a second seal portion in close contact with the fitting portion's vehicle upper side surface; a third seal portion in close contact with a vehicle body; and a fixing portion sandwiching and fixing the protrusion between the first seal portion and the fixing portion. The hard member is continuously provided to pass the second seal portion's vehicle upper side from the base's inner end in the vehicle width direction, have a bent portion towards upward from the vehicle upper side, and further pass the first seal portion and an inside of the fixing portion in the vehicle width direction up to the third seal portion's vehicle upper end.

Claims (11)

1. A vehicle door structure for a vehicle, the vehicle door structure comprising:

a weather strip part extending to surround a periphery of a vehicle door of the vehicle on an inside in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle and seal between the vehicle door and a vehicle body of the vehicle, wherein

the weather strip part includes a first member having a first hardness and a second member integrally molded with the first member, the second member having a second hardness less than that of said first hardness,

the weather strip part comprises:

a base fitted to both sides of a fitting portion in the vehicle width direction, the fitting portion being provided in the vehicle door;

a first seal portion that is in close contact with a protrusion provided in the fitting portion from a vehicle upper side of the vehicle;

a second seal portion that is provided such that the second seal portion protrudes toward a vehicle lower side of the base, and is in close contact with a vehicle upper side surface of the fitting portion from the vehicle upper side;

a third seal portion that is provided such that the third seal portion protrudes toward the vehicle upper side, and is in close contact with the vehicle body from the vehicle lower side when the vehicle door is closed; and

a fixing portion that is provided between the first seal portion and the second seal portion to protrude outward in the vehicle width direction, is in close contact with the protrusion from the vehicle lower side, and sandwiches and fixes the protrusion between the first seal portion and the fixing portion, and

the first member continuously provided such that the first member passes a vehicle upper side of the second seal portion from an inner end in the vehicle width direction at the base, has a bent portion facing a vehicle upper side from the vehicle upper side of the second seal portion, and further passes the first seal portion and the inside in the vehicle width direction of the fixing portion up to a vehicle upper end of the third seal portion.

2. The vehicle door structure according to claim 1 , wherein the first member has a linear shape from the first seal portion to the bent portion, and a linear shape from the bent portion to an inner end in the vehicle width direction of the base.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 9, 2023
From: AOYAMA, TOMONORI
To: SUBARU CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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