Patent ID: 8800207

Claim:
A glass-run retainer for an automobile door including a sliding window pane and a side panel located adjacent to the sliding window pane and fixed to a door window part, the glass-run retainer comprising: a retainer upper part extending upward from a position lower than a belt line of the door across the belt line; and a retainer lower part having a longitudinal length, the retainer lower part being integrated with the retainer upper part and extending downward from a lower end of the retainer upper part, wherein: the retainer lower part has an approximate U-shaped cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the retainer; the retainer upper part has a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the retainer, the cross section having a shape substantially different than the approximate U-shaped cross section of the retainer lower part; the retainer lower part includes, as glass-run holding parts: (1) an inner part configured to hold, at an indoor side, a glass-run lower part with which a side edge of the sliding window pane is in slidable contact; and (2) an outer part having a longitudinal length that is as long as the longitudinal length of the retainer lower part, the outer part being configured to hold, at an outdoor side, the glass-run lower part; the retainer upper part includes, as a glass-run holding part, only the inner part configured to hold, at the indoor side, a glass-run upper part with which a side edge of the sliding window pane toward the side panel is in slidable contact; and the retainer upper part excludes the outer part.