Frame body-equipped vehicle window plate-like body, and method for assembling frame body-equipped vehicle window plate-like body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9499028-B2
Application number	US-201514724462-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 28, 2015
Priority date	Nov 29, 2012
Publication date	Nov 22, 2016
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016

Abstract

The present invention provides a plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window and a process for assembling the plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window, which are capable of providing excellent assembling performance, achieving high durability and providing a decorative member with high fitting accuracy to a resin frame in spite of being in a mode where the decorative member is post-fitted to the resin frame.
In the process for assembling the plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window according to the present invention, in a retaining step, a boss is mounted to a decorative member with a base portion of the boss being retained by a retaining portion of the decorative member. Next, in an inserting step, a shaft portion of the boss is inserted into an aperture of a resin frame. Subsequently, in an insetting step, an outer peripheral surface of a bush is insetted into the aperture of the resin frame while the shaft portion of the boss is inserted into a through bore of the bush. After that, in a fixing step, the shaft portion of the boss and the bush are fixed together by a caulking part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window, comprising a plate-like body for a vehicle window, a resin frame attached to a peripheral edge portion of the plate-like body and a decorative member fitted to the resin frame through a coupling member; the plate-like body further comprising:
the coupling member including a base portion to be retained in the decorative member and a shaft portion projecting from the base portion so as to be insetted into the resin frame;
the decorative member including a retaining portion for retaining the base portion;
the resin frame having an aperture formed therein so as to receive the shaft portion;
a positioning member having a through bore formed therein so as to receive the shaft portion;
the positioning member having an outer peripheral surface insetted into an inner peripheral surface of the aperture; and
a fixing structure for fixing the shaft portion and the positioning member.

2. The plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window according to claim 1 , wherein the positioning member includes a cylindrical body, and a flange formed on an end of the body and having an outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of the aperture of the resin frame, and that the body has an other end insetted into the aperture from a side of the resin frame opposite to the decorative member.

3. The plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window according to claim 2 , wherein the coupling member is made of a resin and has the shaft portion formed with a caulking part as the fixing structure; and
the caulking part is thermally caulked to be engaged with the flange of the positioning member.

4. The plate-like body with a frame attached thereto for a vehicle window according to claim 1 , wherein the resin frame is integrally molded to the peripheral edge portion of the plate-like body for a vehicle window.

Assignees

• Asahi Glass Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kondo Takanobu
• Kawashima Kunihiko

Classifications

• B32B37/1284

  Application of adhesive · CPC title

• B32B2605/00

  Vehicles · CPC title

• B60J1/007 Primary

  received in frames to be attached to vehicle · CPC title

• B60J1/10

  fixedly mounted {(B60J1/085 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B32B37/182

  one or more of the layers being plastic · CPC title