Method for manufacturing long member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10232539-B2
Application number	US-201615546587-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 6, 2016
Priority date	Jan 27, 2015
Publication date	Mar 19, 2019
Grant date	Mar 19, 2019

Abstract

A weather strip including a bottom wall, a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall and in which an angle between the bottom wall and the first lateral wall is constant and an angle between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall is partially varied in a longitudinal direction is manufactured. The method includes: a first step of pre-forming the angle of the first lateral wall and the angle of the second lateral wall to be constant and equal to or larger than final maximum angles; a second step of regulating a boundary between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall from moving toward the first lateral wall by a regulating member; a third step of partially varying the angle of the second lateral wall by a movable roller; and a fourth step of forming the angle of the first lateral wall by a fine-movable roller.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a long member made of a polymer material through extrusion molding, the long member including a holding portion including: a bottom wall; a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall which stand from both ends of the bottom wall; and a metal core member that is embedded in the bottom wall, the first lateral wall, and the second lateral wall from the bottom wall to the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall, an angle between the bottom wall and the first lateral wall being constant throughout in a longitudinal direction, and an angle between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall being partially varied in the longitudinal direction, the method comprising:
a first step of pre-forming the angle between the bottom wall and the first lateral wall and the angle between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall to be constant in the longitudinal direction and equal to or larger than final maximum angles thereof;
a second step of regulating a boundary between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall from moving toward the first lateral wall after the first step; and
a third step of forming the angle between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall into a final angle by partially varying, in the longitudinal direction, the angle between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall,
wherein, in the second step, a regulating member is brought into contact with an inner surface of the boundary between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall or an outer surface of a boundary between the bottom wall and the first lateral wall,
wherein a lower surface of the regulating member is set during manufacturing so as not to come into contact with the bottom wall, and
wherein, in the third step, the angle between the bottom wall and the second lateral wall is formed into the final angle by an angle forming member which is different from the regulating member.

2. The method for manufacturing the long member according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a fourth step of forming the angle between the bottom wall and the first lateral wall into a final angle after the first step.

3. The method for manufacturing the long member according to claim 2 ,
wherein, in the third and fourth steps, a second pressing member and a first pressing member, which are capable of being displaced in an inward/outward direction in a width direction of the long member, press the second lateral wall and the first lateral wall inward, respectively, from outer sides of the second lateral wall and the first lateral wall.

4. The method for manufacturing the long member according to claim 2 ,
wherein, in the fourth step, a positioning member that holds at least a part of an inner surface and an upper end of the first lateral wall is provided.

5. The method for manufacturing the long member according to claim 3 ,
wherein, in the fourth step, in a case where the bottom wall is subjected to a positional shift in the width direction, the first pressing member is displaced in the inward/outward direction, corresponding to the positional shift.

6. The method for manufacturing the long member according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second step and the third step are simultaneously performed.

7. The method for manufacturing the long member according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second step to the fourth step are simultaneously performed.

8. The method for manufacturing the long member according to claim 1 ,
wherein the angle forming member includes a pair of rollers.

Assignees

• Tokai Kogyo Co Ltd

Inventors

• Iwamoto Hideki
• Shirakawa Akihiko
• Okuda Mitsuru

Classifications

• B29C53/08 Primary

  of tubes {or other profiled members} · CPC title

• B60J10/84

  arranged on the vehicle body · CPC title

• B29C53/083

  bending longitudinally, i.e. modifying the curvature of the tube axis · CPC title

• B29K2023/16

  EPM, i.e. ethylene-propylene copolymers; EPDM, i.e. ethylene-propylene-diene copolymers; EPT, i.e. ethylene-propylene terpolymers · CPC title

• B29C47/02

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic