ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,641, issued on March 31, was assigned to NISHIKAWA RUBBER Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Coupling structure of door weather strip" was invented by Hirofumi Ogawa (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door weather strip includes a first extrusion-molded part which couples to an upper side part of a frame of a door of an automobile, a second extrusion-molded part which couples to a vertical side part of the frame, and a die-molded part which connects the first and second extrusion-molded parts on a corner part. A second extended part extends toward a rear part from the die-molded part and has a rigid member embedded. A bod...