Patent ID: 7178809

Claim:
A roof weather strip for providing a seal between a side edge of a sliding roof, which can be folded and retracted inside a car body, and a door glass, which is raised to a fully closed position thereof, the roof weather strip comprising a plurality of weather strip pieces, which are provided corresponding to the folding of the sliding roof and secured to a roof-side frame for the sliding roof, each of said plurality of weather strip pieces having a central part and longitudinal end parts provided on both longitudinal sides of said central part, said longitudinal end parts of adjacent weather strip pieces contacting each other to form a continuously extending roof weather strip for sealing the side edge of the sliding roof when the sliding roof is unfolded to form a roof of the car body, each of said central part and said longitudinal end parts of each weather strip piece including a base portion for attachment to a retainer which is secured to said roof-side frame, a door glass-sealing portion integrally formed with said base portion for contacting a peripheral edge of the door glass, and a sliding roof-sealing portion integrally formed with said door glass-sealing portion for contacting the side edge of the sliding roof, said sliding roof-sealing portion of each of said longitudinal end parts having a tubular configuration, and said tubular sliding roof-sealing portion and a tubular part of said door glass-sealing portion being closed with end faces, respectively, which are provided in each of said longitudinal end parts, wherein in said central part of each weather strip piece, said sliding roof-sealing portion is composed of a base, which is tubular and formed integrally with said door glass-sealing portion, and two sliding roof-sealing lips for contacting the sliding roof, wherein the two sliding roof-sealing lips project from said tubular base in a vertically parallel relation, and in each of said longitudinal end parts of each weather strip piece, said two sliding roof-sealing lips are connected to each other at projecting ends thereof.