Patent ID: 8104818

Claim:
Vehicle comprising an inside passenger compartment, a dashboard, a windshield, a panel extending between an engine compartment and the vehicle passenger compartment, and a dashboard seal disposed between the windshield, the soundproofing panel of the engine compartment, and the dashboard in the passenger compartment of a vehicle, this seal extending substantially along the lateral direction of the vehicle, said dashboard seal comprising: a clamp with an upper jaw and a lower jaw forming a cavity between them that accommodates an edge of the dashboard, an upper lip extending cross-sectionally between one of its ends connected to said clamp and its other, free end, which is fitted against the lower edge of the windshield, and a lower lip extending cross-sectionally between one of its ends connected to said clamp and its other, free end, which presses against the panel, wherein the upper lip has a closed pocket extending cross-sectionally thereunder, bounded by said upper lip, by the clamp, and at its lower part by a connecting arm attached firstly to the upper lip and secondly to the clamp, wherein a free end of the lower jaw of the clamp extends beyond a free end of the upper jaw along the main axis of the cavity, so that the lower jaw of the clamp comprises a bearing surface at its free end for the edge of the dashboard inserted into the clamp cavity, and wherein the edge of the dashboard facing the clamp is fork-shaped with an upper, free arm and a lower arm supported on the bearing surface of the clamp, the end of this lower arm being seated in the clamp between the upper and lower jaws.