Profile element connecting a vehicle pane to a water draining chamber

US8628137B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ELKAMET KUNSTSTOFFTECHNIK GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Platt · Breidenbach, DE
• Michael Ortmüller · Breidenbach, DE
• Daniel Weller · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 30, 2009
• Grant date: Jan 14, 2014
• Expiry date: Apr 30, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60J10/70
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A profile element for connecting a vehicle pane to a water draining chamber includes a first segment affixable to the vehicle pane. A second segment has, at an upper portion, a bearing rib having at least one seal configured to be disposed at a lower edge of the vehicle pane and, at a lower portion, a snap-in recess configured to receive rib of the water draining chamber through an engagement aperture which is delimited in the insertion direction by a lower-most surface of the bearing rib and an upper-most surface of the resilient leg. A detent element is disposed in the snap-in recess so as to facilitate inserting the rib of the water draining chamber in an insertion direction into the snap-in recess and present a larger resistance to extracting the rib from the snap-in recess in an extraction direction opposite the insertion direction.