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US 10,508,018 B2Granted
Cover attaching device and method for attaching a cover to a seat cover
AssigneeYKK Corporation
InventorsTetsuya Fukuzawa, Shinsuke Saiga, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Abstract
A cover attaching device for attaching a cover to a seat body is disclosed. This device comprises a cover holder which includes one or more clip holding means capable of holding at least one clip, the cover holder being configured to hold the cover, to which the clip has been attached, via the clip being held by the clip holding means; and a distance adjusting means capable of adjusting a distance between the cover holder and a table on which the seat body can be placed.
Claims20
A device for handling a cover, comprising:
- a cover holder configured to hold the cover, the cover holder including two or more clip grippers, each clip gripper configured to grip a clip and each clip configured to hold an attachment portion of the cover;
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- a distance adjuster configured to move the cover holder toward or away from a seat body so as to adjust a distance between the cover holder and the seat body,
- wherein the distance adjuster is configured to position the cover holder at a remote position where the cover holder holds the cover such that the cover and the clips are spaced apart from and outside the seat body, and
- wherein the distance adjuster in configured to move the cover holder from the remote position towards the seat body while the cover holder holds the cover such that the clips holding the attachment portion of the cover and respectively gripped by the two or more clip grippers are moved closer to the seat body.
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A method for attaching a cover to a seat body, the method comprising;
- attaching two or more clips to the cover, each clip configured to hold an attachment portion of the cover;
- hanging the cover from a cover holder and positioning the cover holder at a remote position, the cover holder including two or more clip gripping bodies, each clip gripping body configured to grip a respective one of the two or more clips, the cover hanging from the cover holder and the two or more clips respectively gripped by the two of more clip grippers being spaced apart and outside the seat body at the remote position;
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- narrowing a distance between the seat body and the cover hanging from the cover holder so that the two or more clips holding the attachment portion of the cover and gripped by the two or more clip gripping bodies are brought into engagement with the seat body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.