Patent ID: 8544211

Claim:
A door sash for a door of a motor vehicle, the vehicle having a horizontal width-wise direction extending across the width of the vehicle, an outboard side in the vicinity of the door sash facing to the outside of the vehicle, and an inboard side in the vicinity of the door sash facing toward the interior of the vehicle, the door sash having an upper portion extending in a vertical direction upward from a waist line of the door the door sash comprising: a design portion extending in the vertical direction upward from a waist line of the door and having a design surface on the outboard side of the design portion; and a hollow portion connected to the design portion on an inboard side of the design portion and wherein the hollow portion is an extrusion mold formed of light metal extending in the vertical direction upward from a waist line of the door, and further wherein the design portion has a mounting portion extending in the vertical direction upward from a waist line of the door between the hollow portion and the design surface the mounting portion having a variable length along a horizontal cross-sectional shape that increases in the horizontal width-wise direction as it gets close to a waist line of a door, and the hollow portion and the design portion are connected to each other at the mounting portion of the design portion.