Patent ID: 7976027

Claim:
A sealing member designed to be disposed between a first compartment and a second compartment of a vehicle for sealing a through-hole formed in a panel that defines the first and second compartments, said sealing member being formed of an elastic material and comprising: a tubular section designed to sealably fit onto a through-hole-facing end of a receiving member disposed in the first compartment; a lip section extending from said tubular section toward the panel in a spread-out form to surround the through-hole and sealably contact a surface of the panel, said lip section being bendable in a direction of contact such that said lip section contacts the surface of the panel and in a reverse direction such that said lip section gets away from the surface of the panel; an operating convexity provided on a panel-facing surface of said lip section for facilitating an operation to bend the lip section; a stopper portion having a segmented plurality of extensions extending around a circumference of the lip section for limiting a bent amount in a circumferential direction of said lip section to a smaller value than a bent amount of a in the circumferential direction of the lip section when the lip section is bent in the reverse direction.