Arm member and method of manufacturing arm member
AssigneeSomic Management Holdings Inc.
InventorKatsuhiro HIRAMATSU
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Abstract
An arm member and a method of manufacturing the arm member capable of ensuring strength in holding a ball part using a swaged part of a housing. An arm member includes a ball joint and an arm part. The ball joint has a ball stud including a ball part. The ball joint has a housing including a swaged part and holds the ball part inside the housing using deformation of the swaged part. The arm part has an arm part body made of discontinuous fiber-reinforced resin and continuous with the housing. The arm part has a covering part made of continuous fiber-reinforced resin and covering at least a part of the swaged part.
Claims4
An arm member comprising:
- a ball joint having a ball-side member including a ball part, and a receiving-side member including a swaged part and holding the ball part inside the receiving-side member using deformation of the swaged part;
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- an arm part having an arm part body made of discontinuous fiber-reinforced resin and continuous with the receiving-side member, and a covering part made of continuous fiber-reinforced resin and covering at least a part of the swaged part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.