# US 10,766,204 B2 · Joining device

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- Number: US 10,766,204 B2
- Document ID: US10766204B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/249,204
- Filed: 2019-01-16
- Published: 2019-08-29
- Granted: 2020-09-08
- Earliest claimed: 2018-02-23
- Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Yoshihiro Iwano; Kosuke Sakurai
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10766204B2

## CPC

- B29C 65/44: Joining a heated non plastics element to a plastics element
- B29C 65/568: {using a swaging operation, i.e. totally deforming the edge or the rim of a first part to be joined to clamp a second part to be joined}
- B29C 65/645: {using friction or ultrasonic vibrations}
- B29C 66/326: {Shaping the burr, e.g. by the joining tool}
- B29C 66/474: {said single elements being substantially non-flat}
- B29C 66/7392: {characterised by the material of at least one of the parts being a thermoplastic}
- B29C 66/742: {to metals or their alloys}
- B29C 66/8322: {Joining or pressing tools reciprocating along one axis}
- B29C 65/0672: {Spin welding}
- B29C 65/069: {the welding tool cooperating with specially formed features of at least one of the parts to be joined, e.g. cooperating with holes or ribs of at least one of the parts to be joined}
- B29L 2001/002: {Bolts}
- B29L 2031/30: Vehicles, e.g. ships or aircraft, or body parts thereof {(vanes or blades B29L2031/08, air bags B29L2022/027)}
- B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00)
- B29L: INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES

## Abstract

A joining device includes: a holding portion that holds a shaft portion of a metal member, and that pushes the metal member toward one side in an axial direction of the shaft portion; a supporting portion that supports a thermoplastic resin member; a heating portion that heats a surface at the one side in the axial direction of a distal end portion, which is provided at the one side in the axial direction of the shaft portion, to a melting temperature of the thermoplastic resin member; a sleeve portion that is provided at an outer peripheral side of the holding portion, that is disposed so as to overlap with the distal end portion; and an outer tube portion that is provided at an outer peripheral side of the sleeve portion, an end portion of the outer tube portion abutting a surface of the thermoplastic resin member.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A joining device, comprising:
a holding portion that is configured to hold a shaft portion of a metal member, and that is configured to push the metal member toward one side in an axial direction of the shaft portion in a state in which the shaft portion is held by the holding portion;
a supporting portion that is configured to support a thermoplastic resin member from a surface of the thermoplastic resin member at the one side in the axial direction;
a heating portion that is configured to heat a surface at the one side in the axial direction of a distal end portion, which structures a portion of the metal member and is provided at the one side in the axial direction of the shaft portion, to a temperature at which a thermoplastic resin that structures the thermoplastic resin member, melts;
a sleeve portion that is tubular, that is provided at an outer peripheral side of the holding portion, that is disposed so as to overlap with the distal end portion as seen from the axial direction, and that is configured to move in the axial direction relative to the holding portion; and
an outer tube portion that is formed in a shape of a tube provided at an outer peripheral side of the sleeve portion and accommodating the metal member at an inner peripheral side thereof as seen from the axial direction, and that is configured to move in the axial direction relative to the sleeve portion, an end portion of the outer tube portion at the one side in the axial direction being configured to abut a surface of the thermoplastic resin member at another side in the axial direction.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The joining device of claim 1, further comprising a restricting portion that restricts relative rotation between the metal member and the holding portion around the axial direction,
wherein the heating portion is a driving portion that, in a state in which the surface at the one side in the axial direction of the distal end portion is made to abut the thermoplastic resin member, rotates or swings the holding portion around the axial direction and is configured to heat the surface by friction between the surface and the thermoplastic resin member.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The joining device of claim 2, wherein:
the metal member further has a held portion that is provided at the one side in the axial direction of the shaft portion and at the other side in the axial direction of the distal end portion, and that is configured to be held by the sleeve portion,
a held-portion-side flat surface portion that runs along the axial direction is provided at the held portion,
a sleeve-side flat surface portion, that is made to abut the held-portion-side flat surface portion and that can restrict relative rotation between the sleeve portion and the metal member around the axial direction, is provided at the sleeve portion, and
the sleeve portion is configured to rotate around the axial direction.