Method for producing a support structure, preferably a support structure for a vehicle seat
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsJürgen MAIER, Andreas COTT
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Abstract
A method is provided for producing a support structure, preferably a support structure for a vehicle seat having at least one seat shell for the seat part and/or the backrest of the vehicle seat, having the following method steps of producing a metal semi-finished product and reshaping it into an essentially flat plate, detaching a plate part from the plate, and deforming the plate part, the production of the metal semi-finished product being performed by extrusion. The semi-finished product may be already formed into a flat plate by the extrusion or the extrusion is performed with production of a curved plate, which is subsequently reshaped into a flat plate.
Claims20
A method for producing a support structure, comprising the steps of:
- producing a metal semi-finished product by an extrusion;
- reshaping the metal semi-finished product into an essentially flat plate;
- detaching a plate part from the essentially flat plate;
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- deforming the plate part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.