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US 10,543,646 B2Granted
Structural sewing and overmolding
AssigneeArevo, Inc.
InventorHemant Bheda
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Abstract
The illustrative embodiment comprises the sewing of fibers into a sewing substrate, which is then overmolded, to enable the manufacture of strong and lightweight articles with complex geometries.
Claims13
An article of manufacture comprising:
- a sewable solid that is made of a thermoplastic, wherein the sewable solid comprises an obverse surface and a reverse surface;
- a first thread that lies on the obverse surface of the sewable solid;
- a second thread that lies on the reverse surface of the sewable solid and that penetrates the sewable solid such that the first thread and the second thread form a first two-thread lockstitch with a first plurality of entwine points on the obverse surface of the sewable solid;
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- an overmolding of the thermoplastic that encases the first thread, the second thread, and the sewable solid.
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An article of manufacture comprising:
- a sewable solid that is made of a thermoplastic, wherein the sewable solid comprises an obverse surface and a reverse surface;
- a first thread that lies on the obverse surface of the sewable solid;
- a second thread that lies on the reverse surface of the sewable solid and that penetrates the sewable solid such that the first thread and the second thread form a first two-thread lockstitch with the first thread being rectilinear through a first plurality of entwine points;
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- an overmolding of the thermoplastic that encases the first thread, the second thread, and the sewable solid;
- wherein each of the sewable solid and the first thread has a bending stiffness, and wherein the bending stiffness of the sewable solid is greater than bending stiffness of the first thread.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.