Patent ID: 8172306
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicular wheel-arch protector mounted to a cutout part at an edge of a side door of a vehicle, the cutout part being formed to follow a contour of a rear wheel of the vehicle, the side door being positioned adjacent to and forwardly of the rear wheel for opening and closing a door opening formed in a vehicle-body panel forming a lateral side part of the vehicle, the wheel-arch protector comprising: a protector body formed from a polymer material; and a seal part formed from a polymer material that elastically deforms more readily than the polymer material for forming the protector body, both the protector body and the seal part being formed to follow at least a part of a contour of the cutout part, wherein the protector body comprises: wherein the distended part is long and thin so as to follow the cutout part and having a hollow part that is long and thin so as to follow the cutout part, wherein the seal part has a basal part formed integrally with a vehicle-interior-facing surface of the mounting baseplate and a seal-lip part formed integrally with the basal part, the basal part being positioned away from the hollow part toward a second widthwise end of the mounting baseplate, the seal-lip part being designed to seal a space between an outer surface of the vehicle-body panel and the mounting baseplate in a state in which the side door is closed, and wherein the mounting baseplate has a through-hole passing through a front-back direction of the mounting baseplate, the basal part has an anchor part filled into the through-hole, and the anchor part is formed from the same material as the basal part.