Anti-retention sealing joint for a panel fixed to a holding frame delimiting a closed space

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11062815-B2
Application number	US-201816008547-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2018
Priority date	Jun 16, 2017
Publication date	Jul 13, 2021
Grant date	Jul 13, 2021

Abstract

A seal for a glove box panel includes a first face and a second face parallel to each other and designed to come into contact with a profile of the glove box and against an internal face of the panel. The seal includes an internal circumferential edge with a rim projecting beyond the first face.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A seal for installation of a rectangular panel on a supporting structure of a glove box, the seal comprising:
a first contact face and a second contact face parallel to each other and designed to come into contact with a profile of the glove box supporting structure and against an internal face of the panel;
an internal circumferential edge provided with a rim projecting beyond the first contact face; and
an external circumferential edge prolonged by a skirt extending perpendicular to the second contact face projecting beyond the second contact face to surround and clamp the edge of the panel around its entire circumference, and the skirt is terminated by a perpendicular rim that is perpendicular to the skirt, the skirt extends in a straight line from the second contact face to an inner face of the perpendicular rim, and a bottom face of the skirt is planar and, when the skirt is horizontal, the bottom face of the skirt is the bottommost edge of the seal,
wherein the internal circumferential edge is positioned at a first end of the first contact face and the second contact face and the external circumferential edge is positioned at a second end of the first contact face and the second contact face such that the first contact face and the second contact face extend between the internal circumferential edge and the external circumferential edge.

2. The seal according to claim 1 , in which the rim has a quarter-round shape.

3. The seal according to claim 1 , in which the rim comprises a first lip projecting from the first contact face and a second lip projecting from the second contact face.

4. The seal according to claim 1 , in which the skirt is terminated by the perpendicular rim that is perpendicular to the skirt to jointly delimit a section with a shape like the letter U, with the second contact face and the skirt.

5. A glove box comprising:
a supporting structure including an opening closed by a panel pressed into contact with a profile delimiting the opening; and
the seal according to claim 1 inserted between the panel and the profile.

6. The glove according to claim 5 , in which the skirt is terminated by the perpendicular rim that is perpendicular to the skirt and parallel to the first contact face and the second contact face, and the perpendicular rim is in contact with an external face of the panel.

7. The seal according to claim 1 , in which the rim has a triangular shape.

8. The seal according to claim 1 , in which the rim extends to an upper edge of the seal.

9. The seal according to claim 1 , in which a height of the perpendicular rim is less than a height of the first contact face and a height of the second contact face.

10. The seal according to claim 1 , in which the perpendicular rim that is perpendicular to the skirt includes an outer edge that is planar and when the skirt is horizontal, the outer edge of the perpendicular rim is the rightmost edge of the seal.

11. A glove box comprising:
a supporting structure including an opening closed by a panel including glove openings having gloves attached thereto, the panel being pressed into contact with a profile delimiting the opening; and
a seal comprising:
a first contact face and a second contact face parallel to each other and designed to come into contact with a profile of the glove box supporting structure and against an internal face of the panel,
an internal circumferential edge provided with a rim projecting beyond the first contact face, and
an external circumferential edge prolonged by a skirt extending perpendicular to the second contact face projecting beyond the second contact face to surround and clamp the edge of the panel around its entire circumference,

wherein the internal circumferential edge is positioned at a first end of the first contact face and the second contact face and the external circumferential edge is positioned at a second end of the first contact face and the second contact face such that the first contact face and the second contact face extend between the internal circumferential edge and the external circumferential edge.

12. The glove box according to claim 11 , in which the rim has a quarter-round shape.

13. The glove box according to claim 11 , in which the rim comprises a first lip projecting from the first contact face and a second lip projecting from the second contact face.

14. The glove box according to claim 11 , in which the skirt is terminated by the perpendicular rim that is perpendicular to the skirt to jointly delimit a section with a shape like the letter U, with the second contact face and the skirt.

15. The glove box according to claim 11 , in which the rim has a triangular shape.

16. The glove box according to claim 11 , in which the rim extends to an upper edge of the seal.

17. The glove box according to claim 11 , in which a height of the perpendicular rim is less than a height of the first contact face and a height of the second contact face.

Assignees

• Commissariat Energie Atomique

Inventors

• Parrenin Cedric
• Bay Raphael

Classifications

• B25J21/02 Primary

  Glove-boxes, i.e. chambers in which manipulations are performed by the human hands in gloves built into the chamber walls {(glove- boxes for removal of dirt B08B15/026; glove-boxes shielded against radiation G21F7/04)}; Gloves therefor · CPC title

• B25J19/0075

  Means for protecting the manipulator from its environment or vice versa · CPC title

• G01B3/32

  Holders therefor · CPC title

• B65D83/0894

  the articles being positioned relative to one another or to the container in a special way, e.g. for facilitating dispensing, without additional support · CPC title

• G21F7/053 Primary

  Glove mounting means · CPC title