US 10,710,315 B2Granted

Method that forms pattern on fabric member and fixes pattern on trim

AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Adient Automotive Interiors Korea Inc.

InventorsDong Keun Yoo, Chang Dong Kim, Eun Ho Choi

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Abstract

A method can be used to attach a fabric member to a trim while forming a pattern in the fabric member. A trim has trim grooves formed in one side of the trim and a fabric member has a foam formed in one side of a skin material of the fabric member. A bonding member is coated to an outer surface of the foam and the fabric member is heated where the bonding member is coated. The heated fabric member is placed on the side of the trim where the trim grooves are formed. The fabric member is fixed to the trim by inserting edges of the fabric member into the trim grooves using insertion blades while pattern protrusions formed in a compression jig form a pattern by pressing the skin material of the fabric member.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A system that attaches a fabric member to a trim while forming a pattern in the fabric member, the system comprising:

a first mold having a predetermined location where a trim having trim grooves can be placed;
a compression jig configured to be disposed on a fabric member having a predetermined shape, wherein the compression jig includes pattern protrusions to form a pattern in the fabric member and fixing protrusions to fix the fabric member to the trim, the first mold and the compression jig being arranged so that the fabric member can be placed on the trim at the predetermined location;
and
a second mold having injection blades that protrude at predetermined locations of a molding side of the second mold and are configured to partially press the fabric member to fix the fabric member to the trim by inserting the fabric member into the trim.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/609,154Filed 31 May 2017
Priority: KR 10-2016-015384718 Nov 2016
Published: US 2018/0141281 A124 May 2018
Granted: 14 Jul 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

B29C 65/7805
Positioning the parts to be joined, e.g. aligning, indexing or centring: the parts to be joined comprising positioning features
B29C 35/0261
Heating or curing, e.g. crosslinking or vulcanizing during moulding, e.g. in a mould: using ultrasonic or sonic vibrations
B29C 43/18
Of articles of definite length, i.e. discrete articles: incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. compression moulding around inserts or for…
B29C 43/52
Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations: heating or cooling