Patent ID: 7802401

Claim:
A window regulator for raising and lowering window glass of a motor vehicle comprising: a vertical rail defining a vertical track; a glass carrier including a U-shaped upwardly opening clamp for receiving the window glass and a slide coupled to the clamp and mounted for sliding movement along the track; first and second cables secured to the slide; a drive unit for operably engaging the cables to move the glass carrier along the track; a glass support member extending horizontally from a side face of the slide and defining a free outboard end; a cushion formed of a plastic material different than the material of the slide, having a sleeve configuration, sized to be fitted over the free outboard end of the glass support member, and having an inboard annular edge and an outboard annular edge; and a retaining member formed as a protuberance on the glass support member proximate the free outboard end of the glass support end and sized to allow passage of the inboard annular edge of the sleeve cushion thereover and onto the glass support member and thereafter engaging the outboard annular edge of the sleeve cushion to preclude inadvertent separation of the sleeve cushion from the support member.