Skin material of vehicle interior equipment and manufacturing method for the same
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsFumitoshi AKAIKE, Kohei KATO, Shigehiro FUJITA, Takazo FUJII, Hideaki KUNISADA
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Abstract
A manufacturing method for a skin material of a vehicle interior equipment includes exposing a conductive wire material by removing a main fiber material from a first fabric material formed of the conductive wire material and the main fiber material that is weaker than the conductive wire material and electrically connecting a conductive member, which is used to supply electric power to the conductive wire material, to the exposed portion of the conductive wire material.
Claims13
A manufacturing method for a skin material of vehicle interior equipment, comprising:
- exposing a conductive wire material by removing a main fiber material from a first fabric material formed of the conductive wire material and the main fiber material that is weaker than the conductive wire material;
- and
- electrically connecting a conductive member, which is used to supply electric power to the conductive wire material, to the exposed portion of the conductive wire material.
A manufacturing method for a conductive member provided in a skin material of a vehicle interior equipment, wherein the skin material includes:
- a first fabric material that is formed of a first conductive wire material and a main fiber material that is weaker than the first conductive wire material;
- the conductive member, which is used to supply electric power to the first conductive wire material, is electrically connected to the first conductive wire material exposed from the first fabric material;
- and
- a second fabric material that is coupled to the first fabric material to form the skin material of the vehicle interior equipment, wherein
- the conductive member is connected to an end of the first fabric material,
- a surface of the end of the first fabric material is coupled to a surface of an end of the second fabric material face-to-face to thereby form a coupling portion,
- the coupling portion protrudes from a surface opposite to the surface of the first fabric material,
- the conductive member has a support member and a second conductor,
- the support member is a woven fabric formed of first yarn and second yarn,
- the support member is a belt-like member that is long in a direction in which the first yarn is routed, and
- the second conductor is routed almost parallel to the direction in which the first yarn is routed, and is attached to the support member,
- the manufacturing method comprising:
- arranging the second conductor in a direction of the first yarn, and creating an end of the support member in the direction of the first yarn only using the first yarn,
- exposing the second conductor by removing the first yarn at the end of the support member, and
- forming a connecting portion for connection to a power supply member by binding the exposed second conductor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.