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US 12,491,676 B2Granted
Method for manufacturing a finished part
AssigneeSafran Seats
InventorsThomas Meyer, Agnès Exertier, Pascal Thobie, Jérémy Cailleteau
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a finished part comprising: a step of placing a trimmed finishing shell inside a heated mold chosen from a first mold referred to as a female mold and a second mold referred to as a male mold in the form of a punch, a step of heating a structural part made of a composite material up to its melting point, a step of placing the structural part on the finishing shell, a step of shaping the structural part against the finishing shell by means of the male mold in the form of a punch cooperating with the female mold, such that the finishing shell is fixed to the structural part that was shaped to obtain the finished part.
Claims9
A method for manufacturing a finished part comprising:
- a step of producing a finishing shell of an internal or external face of the finished part, said finishing shell being made of plastic material,
- the step of producing the finishing shell comprising:
- a step of heating a plate made of a plastic material to a temperature between 180° C. and 230° C., the plate having a thickness of about 1 mm,
- a step of placing the heated plate in a position inside a first mold, the temperature of the first mold being lower than the temperature of the heated plate, the temperature of the first mold being between 90° C. and 150° C.,
- a step of putting the heated plate in shape within the first mold,
- a step of trimming the plate to obtain a trimmed finishing shell,
- a step of placing the trimmed finishing shell inside a heated second mold chosen from a female mold and a male mold in a shape of a punch, said female mold having a shape complementary to the shape of the male mold, a temperature of the heated second mold in which the finishing shell is placed is lower than a melting temperature of a composite material of a structural part in order to promote cooling of the finished part, the temperature of the heated second mold being between 90° C. and 150° C.,
- a step of heating the structural part made of the composite material up to the melting temperature of the composite material of the structural part, the melting temperature of the composite material of the structural part being between 250° C. and 300° C.,
- a step of placing the structural part on the finishing shell,
- a step of shaping the structural part against the finishing shell by means of the male mold cooperating with the female mold, so that the finishing shell joins with the structural part formed to obtain the finished part,
- wherein the method further comprises a plastic material injection step during the step of shaping the structural part against the finishing shell so as to form a border on the structural part, wherein the plastic material injection step comprises laterally injecting a plastic material between the female mold and the male mold.
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A method for manufacturing a finished part comprising:
- a step of producing a finishing shell of an internal or external face of the finished part, said finishing shell being made of plastic material,
- the step of producing the finishing shell comprising:
- a step of heating a plate made of a plastic material to a temperature between 180° C. and 230° C., the plate having a thickness of about 1 mm,
- a step of placing the heated plate in a position inside a first mold, the temperature of the first mold being lower than the temperature of the heated plate, the temperature of the first mold being between 90° C. and 150° C.,
- a step of putting the heated plate in a shape within the first mold,
- a step of trimming the plate to obtain a trimmed finishing shell,
- a step of placing the trimmed finishing shell inside a second heated mold chosen from a female mold and a male mold in a shape of a punch, said female mold having a shape complementary to the shape of the male mold, a temperature of the second heated mold in which the finishing shell is placed is lower than a melting temperature of a composite material of a structural part in order to promote cooling of the finished part, the temperature of the heated mold being between 90° C. and 150° C.,
- a step of heating the structural part made of the composite material up to the melting temperature of the composite material of the structural part, the melting temperature of the composite material of the structural part being between 250° C. and 300° C.,
- a step of placing the structural part on the finishing shell,
- a step of shaping the structural part against the finishing shell by means of the male mold cooperating with the female mold, so that the finishing shell joins with the structural part formed to obtain the finished part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.