Patent ID: 7237359

Claim:
A glass run for use in a motor vehicle, which is provided along an inner periphery of a door frame of a vehicle door for guiding a door glass as it is raised and lowered, wherein the glass run comprises an outside wall, an inside wall and a bottom wall and has a generally U-shaped cross-section, said outside wall having an outside seal lip, and said inside wall having an inside seal lip, said outside seal lip and said inside seal lip respectively extending into an interior defined by said outside wall, said inside wall and said bottom wall and sealing an end of the door glass, wherein an opening-side groove is provided on an inner surface of said outside wall along a joint with a base of said outside seal lip, a bottom-side groove is provided on said inner surface of said outside wall to extend in a longitudinal direction thereof, a projection having a generally semicircular cross-section is provided on an end of said outside seal lip such that when said outside seal lip is pressed by the door glass, an end of said projection contacts said outside wall and is matingly accommodated in said bottom-side groove provided on said outside wall and a space is defined between said inner surface of said outside wall and a facing surface of said outside seal lip by said opening-side groove, and depressions are provided on said inner surface of said outside wall, and said depressions extend in a longitudinal direction of said outside wall.