Patent ID: 7055285

Claim:
A trim and glass run attachment structure in a vehicle door comprising: a flange part provided on a window frame of the vehicle door, wherein said window frame is comprised by an inner panel, an outer panel and a door sash, and the flange part is comprised by a portion of the window frame at which an interior flange of the inner panel and an interior flange of the door sash are joined together; a U-shaped attachment groove, which is adjacent to and integral with a proximal end of the flange part, wherein the proximal end of the flange part is closer to the inner panel than a distal end of the flange part, and wherein the U-shaped attachment groove is on an exterior side of the proximal end of said flange part and is on an outer peripheral side of the proximal end of said flange part; a lock protrusion strip provided on a wall of said attachment groove that is on an interior side of said attachment groove, and said lock protrusion strip is adjacent the proximal end of said flange part; a trim, which has a substantially U-shaped cross-section and is attached to said flange part; and a glass run, which is separate from said trim, wherein: the glass run has a glass run body attached to said attachment groove; the glass run body includes opposing side walls and a pair of seal lips, one seal lip of the pair of seal lips engaging the interior side of a window glass and the other seal lip of the pair of seal lips engaging the exterior side of the window glass; said glass run body has a lock protrusion strip engaging with the lock protrusion strip of the attachment groove to retain the glass run body in said groove; a part of said trim is in contact with said glass run, when said trim is attached to said flange part, an exterior part of said flange part and an interior part of said attachment groove are integrally formed as a single component, and the single component fixes the positions of the trim and the glass run to keep the trim in contact with the glass run; the flange part and the attachment groove are formed in series and are partitioned by the lock protrusion strip of the attachment groove; the glass run has a U-shaped structure in cross section; the trim is an extrusion that is bent to fit a corner of the window frame; the glass run includes a molded corner part that corresponds to the corner; and an opening is formed between the trim and the glass run in the corner due to a difference in a radius of curvature between the trim and the glass run in the corner, and the opening is covered with a shielding plate located outside of a side wall of the trim.