Fiber-reinforced resin structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9321379-B2
Application number	US-201214356918-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2012
Priority date	Dec 16, 2011
Publication date	Apr 26, 2016
Grant date	Apr 26, 2016

Abstract

A fiber-reinforced resin structure having a hole into which a connector that connects to another member is inserted, wherein a bearing strength at a part of an inside surface of the hole on which a load from the connector acts, represented by a stress at which displacement of the part of the inside surface of the hole starts increasing even without the load acting on the part of the inside surface of the hole from the connector increasing, is less than a breaking strength of a fiber-reinforced resin constituting that part of the structure.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fiber-reinforced resin structure of a vehicle seat frame having a hole into which a connector that connects to another member is inserted, wherein a bearing strength at a part of an inside surface of said hole on which a load from said connector acts, represented by a stress at which displacement of said part of said inside surface of said hole starts increasing even without said load acting on said part of said inside surface of said hole from said connector increasing, is less than a breaking strength of a fiber-reinforced resin constituting that part of said structure; and reinforcing fibers of said fiber-reinforced resin at said part of said inside surface of said hole of said structure acted with said load from said connector are arranged more than those at another part.

2. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 1 , wherein said hole inserted with said connector is a through hole.

3. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 1 , wherein said connector comprises a pin or a bolt.

4. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 1 , wherein a trigger becoming a starting point of said displacement of said part of said inside surface of said hole is provided at said part of said inside surface of said hole of said structure acted with said load from said connector.

5. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 4 , wherein said trigger comprises a notch formed on said part of said inside surface of said hole.

6. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 4 , wherein continuous reinforcing fibers are disposed at a part around said hole except a part provided with said trigger.

7. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 6 , wherein reinforcing fibers different in kind from reinforcing fibers used for a fiber-reinforced resin forming said part around said hole are used as said continuous reinforcing fibers.

8. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 1 , wherein a fiber-reinforced resin constituting said structure contains carbon fibers.

9. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 1 , wherein said structure forms a component for vehicles.

10. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 9 , wherein said structure comprises a frame structure for a seatback of a seat for vehicles.

11. The fiber-reinforced resin structure according to claim 10 , wherein at least two holes inserted with connectors connecting to another member are provided at a lower part of said frame structure for a seatback, and at least one of the holes is said hole having said part of said inside surface with said bearing strength less than said breaking strength of said fiber-reinforced resin.

Assignees

• Toray Industries

Inventors

• Yamaguchi Koji
• Shimizu Nobuhiko
• Kimoto Yukitane

Classifications

• B60N2/682

  Joining means · CPC title

• B60N2/22

  the back-rest being adjustable {(B60N2/2878 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B29C70/06

  Fibrous reinforcements only · CPC title

• B60N2/4228

  due to impact coming from the rear · CPC title

• B60N2/4214 Primary

  longitudinal · CPC title