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US 8,794,708 B2Granted
Motor vehicle seat upholstery formation
AssigneeFaurecia Sieges d'Autmobile S.A.
InventorsNicolas Besnard, Régis Couedro, Fabrice Etienne, Etienne Poulet
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Abstract
The invention relates to the upholstery of a seat element for a motor vehicle and to the method of creating it, in which method a foam support block is produced to fit a frame element; a cover element is created by cold-forming a foam sprayed onto a polypropylene substrate and attached on the reverse side of a textile material in the form of a skin or synthetic material to define the visible shape of the seat element; and the cover element is attached to the support block.
Claims6
A method for forming upholstery for an element of a motor vehicle seat, the method comprising:
- producing a foam support block configured to fit a frame element;
- spraying foam on a polypropylene substrate to form a coated substrate;
- attaching the coated substrate to a reverse side of a textile material in a press comprising a die and punch to provide a cover element, wherein the textile material is in the form of skin or of a synthetic material, and wherein the press imparts in the cover element a visible shape of the element;
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- attaching the cover element is to the support block external to the press.
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