US 11,951,817 B2
Door hole seal and method of stacking a plurality of door hole seals
Fumito Okino, Hiroshima (JP); and Taisuke Kameoka, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by NISHIKAWA RUBBER CO., LTD., Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Jul. 31, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/945,080.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-150501 (JP), filed on Aug. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0053429 A1, Feb. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. B60J 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60J 5/0418 (2013.01) 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of stacking, on top of each other, a plurality of door hole seals each of which is to be attached to a door inner panel of a vehicle door,
each of the door hole seals comprising:
a main body part for closing a service hole of the door inner panel; and
an adhesive part, arranged on a periphery of the main body part, for bonding the main body part to the door inner panel,
the main body part having a protrusion provided thereon, the protrusion having a height greater than a thickness of the adhesive part,
the plurality of door hole seals including two door hole seals adjacent to each other in a direction in which the plurality of door hole seals are stacked on top of each other,
wherein the protrusion of one door hole seal of the two adjacent door hole seals is arranged at a position that is different from a position of the protrusion of another door hole seal of the two adjacent door hole seals, and
the protrusion of the one door hole seal is arranged so as to abut against the main body part of the another door hole seal at a position that is different from the position at which the adhesive part is arranged,
the method comprising the step of:
stacking the another door hole seal on top of the one door hole seal.