Patent ID: 6074508
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: B29C,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for fabricating a vehicular seat by using a vehicular seat fabrication system including at least first and second fabrication devices which are located side by side, each fabrication device including a lower base member, an upper base member which is pivotally connected through a pivot shaft to said lower base member so as to be turnable around the pivot shaft, a lower die connected to said lower base member and movable upward and downward relative to said lower base member, a skin material being set to said lower die, an upper die secured to said upper base member so that said lower die is approachable to said upper die, a pad material being set to said upper die, an adhesive being applied at least one of said skin material and said pad material; and a heating device for heating and activating the adhesive, disposed in the vicinity of said first and second fabrication devices and locatable over each upper base member of said first and second fabrication devices upon each upper base member being turned,said method comprising the following steps:setting the pad material to said upper die upon said upper die being turned together with said upper base member around said pivot shaft from a first predetermined angular position to a second predetermined angular position;applying the adhesive onto the pad material upon said upper die being further turned together with said upper base member around said pivot shaft to a third predetermined angular position at which the adhesive faces upward;heating the adhesive by said heating device so that the adhesive is activated;turning said upper die together with said upper base member around said pivot shaft to the first predetermined angular position; andmoving said lower die on which the skin material is set, upward so that the skin material is pressed onto the pad material with the adhesive.