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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yoshihiro Iwano, Toyota, JP;
Kosuke Sakurai, Nisshin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A joining device includes: a holding portion that holds a shaft portion of a metal member, and that pushes the metal member toward one side in an axial direction of the shaft portion; a supporting portion that supports a thermoplastic resin member; a heating portion that heats a surface at the one side in the axial direction of a distal end portion, which is provided at the one side in the axial direction of the shaft portion, to a melting temperature of the thermoplastic resin member; a sleeve portion that is provided at an outer peripheral side of the holding portion, that is disposed so as to overlap with the distal end portion; and an outer tube portion that is provided at an outer peripheral side of the sleeve portion, an end portion of the outer tube portion abutting a surface of the thermoplastic resin member.