US 6,499,256 B1
Weather strip
Masanori Aritake,
Ichinomiya (Japan);
Hironobu Shigematsu,
Ichihara (Japan);
and Nobuhiro Natsuyama,
Ichihara (Japan)
Assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.,
Aichi-ken (Japan);
and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Limited,
Osaka (Japan)
Filed on 03-Aug-1999, as Appl. No. Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.,
Aichi-ken (Japan);
and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Limited,
Osaka (Japan)
Int. Cl.7B32B 3/00
US 6,499,256 B1
Weather strip
Masanori Aritake,
Ichinomiya (Japan);
Hironobu Shigematsu,
Ichihara (Japan);
and Nobuhiro Natsuyama,
Ichihara (Japan)
Assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.,
Aichi-ken (Japan);
and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Limited,
Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 03, 1999, as Appl. No. 9/365,752.
Claims priority of application No. 10-233615 (JP), filed on Aug. 04, 1998.
Int. Cl.7B32B 3/00
U.S. Cl. 498212;441
6 Claims
1. A weather strip comprising an extruded part and a molded part connected to said extruded part,
wherein said extruded part is formed by extrusion molding from a thermoplastic elastomer,
wherein said molded part is molded from an olefin thermoplastic elastomer containing a solid particle antifriction material
and has 10 to 50 956;m of ten points average surface roughness (Rz) on the surface of said molded part,
wherein said solid particle antifriction material constitutes between 1% and 30% by weight of the total weight of said molded
part,
wherein a particle size of said solid particle antifriction material is 0.1 to 50 956;m, and
wherein said solid particle antifriction material is mixed throughout said molded part.