18858119. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPONENT (LEAR CORPORATION)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPONENT
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Lisa Swikoski of West Bloomfield MI US
Michelle A. Brudzynsky of Farmington Hills MI US
Ibrahim Valenzuela of Novi MI US
Kevin M. Geisler of Menlo Park CA US
Jeanene F. Munroe of Southfield MI US
David Anderson of Orchard Lake MI US
Joshua Hallock of Warren MI US
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPONENT
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18858119 titled 'METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPONENT
Original Abstract Submitted
An apparatus and method for producing a vehicle interior component may include creating a plurality of molten polymeric filaments, and applying a fluid stream to the molten filaments to impart the desired shape while in a bath to cool them to form a consolidated filament structure. An assembly, system, and method are provided for shaping a plurality of strands of a molten thermoplastic resin as a contoured unitary mesh product via at least one shaping conveyor. Another assembly, system, and method are provided for shaping a plurality of strands of a molten thermoplastic resin as a contoured unitary mesh product via an actuator assembly having one or more actuators.
- LEAR CORPORATION
- Lisa Swikoski of West Bloomfield MI US
- Michelle A. Brudzynsky of Farmington Hills MI US
- Ibrahim Valenzuela of Novi MI US
- Haifeng Liu of Novi MI US
- Kevin M. Geisler of Menlo Park CA US
- Jeanene F. Munroe of Southfield MI US
- David Anderson of Orchard Lake MI US
- Joshua Hallock of Warren MI US
- Mark Karges of Macomb MI US
- B29D99/00
- B29K101/12
- B60N2/90
- CPC B29D99/0092