Apparatus for Producing an Interior Component, Method for Producing an Interior Component With the Apparatus and Interior Component

Abstract

An apparatus for producing an interior component from a carrier element and a top layer includes a handling device, a component support for receiving the carrier element and the top layer, where the component support has a fixing device for temporarily fixing the carrier element and the top layer on the component support, a welding head, and a sewing head. A control unit controls the handling device where a data set for controlling at least the handling device in a manner dependent on a material of the top layer is stored in the control unit and where the handling device is controllable depending on the material of the top layer by the control unit such that, to connect the top layer to the carrier element, the top layer and the carrier element are welded by the welding head or sewn by the sewing head.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.