US Patent Issued to NISHIKAWA RUBBER, AISIN on May 6 for "Weather strip and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,086, issued on May 6, was assigned to NISHIKAWA RUBBER Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Weather strip and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Yoichiro Sasaki (Hiroshima, Japan), Daisuke Hayashi (Hiroshima, Japan), Yasutaka Shinoda (Kariya, Japan) and Motonari Inagaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weather strip couples to a flange with curved parts of a sliding door of an automobile. The weather strip includes an installation base member, a hollow part, and an insert. The installation base member couples to the flange and includes an inner-cabin side wall, a first outer-cabin...