Patent ID: 7252294
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: B60J,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A weather strip comprising: a U-shaped trim part including a pair of side wall portions and a bottom wall portion connecting said side wall portions to each other, and in which an insert is embedded along a longitudinal direction of said trim part, wherein said insert includes a plurality of skeletal pieces arranged substantially in parallel to one another and a connecting portion integrating said skeletal pieces; each skeletal piece includes a bottom wall part embedded in said bottom wall portion and a pair of side wall parts embedded in said side wall portions, respectively; an angle defined by said bottom wall part and one of said side wall parts forms an acute angle; one of said side wall portions includes a thick portion formed in a vicinity of a distal end of said one of the side wall portions so as to protrude outward of said trim part; a seal part expanded outward of said trim part so as to have a hollow portion one end of which is connected to said thick portion and another end of which is connected to a vicinity of a proximal portion of one of said side wall portions; in a cross section, which intersects with the longitudinal direction of said trim part at a right angle, a straight line is defined by connecting a center of gravity Pb of said one of the side wall portions and an intersection point Pc between a straight line Lc extending along said bottom wall part and a straight line Ld extending along the side wall part of said one of the side wall portions; and an angle θd defined by the straight line Le and the straight line Lc forms an acute angle.