Patent ID: 7799155
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: B29C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A welding method for joining a joining structure for joining a pair of upper and lower resin molded bodies, comprising: applying a vibration to the pair of upper and lower resin molded bodies while applying a pressure in a vertical pressurizing direction to the pair of resin molded bodies in a state in which joining parts of the pair of resin molded bodies are butted into each other across a substantially entire area thereof, wherein: the joining parts of each of the upper and lower resin molded bodies comprise first and second regions extending in a direction perpendicular to the pressurizing direction, a third region displaced in the vertical pressurizing direction away from the first and the second regions and extending in the direction perpendicular to the vertical pressurizing direction, and fourth and fifth regions extending in a direction tilting relative to the vertical pressurizing direction; the first, second, third, fourth and fifth regions of the upper resin molded body respectively correspond to and mate with the first, second, third, fourth and fifth regions of the lower resin molded body; the third region extends between respective first ends of the fourth and fifth regions; the first and second regions have first ends connected to respective second ends of the fourth and fifth regions; the joining parts constituted as the first, second, third, fourth and fifth regions being continuous, wherein the joining parts form a saddle shape; the first, second, third, fourth and fifth regions of at least one of the upper and lower molded bodies comprise protrusions for welding; and a butting area viewed in lateral cross section of the protrusions in the first, second and third regions is less than a butting area of the protrusions in the fourth and fifth regions in the state in which the joining parts are butted.