Automotive door seal
CA 2240552 A1 · Owner: Ford Global Technologies, Inc. · Inventors: Okragly, David; Fioritto, Brian
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A door seal for an automotive vehicle is provided that requires low insertion effort and high extraction effort, that makes correct insertion easier and that provides a complete seal even in tight corners without adversely affecting door closing effort and also, provides cosmetic members to hide. The seal attaches to a weld flange located around the perimeter of a body side door opening of an automobile, and has such features as a channel with hinged gripping fingers and digits an, anti-rotation member, a bulb shaped hollow sealing member interior trim gap hiding lip and weld hiding member.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 12, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 12, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 12, 2020.
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Sources & verification
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