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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2023
Lear Corporation, Southfield, MI (US);
Lisa Swikoski, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Michelle A. Brudzynsky, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Ibrahim Valenzuela, Novi, MI (US);
Haifeng Liu, Novi, MI (US);
Kevin M. Geisler, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeanene F. Munroe, Southfield, MI (US);
David Anderson, Orchard Lake, MI (US);
Joshua Hallock, Warren, MI (US);
Mark Karges, Macomb, MI (US);
LEAR CORPORATION, Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for producing a vehicle interior component may include creating a plurality of molten polymeric filaments, and applying a fluid stream to the molten filaments to impart the desired shape while in a bath to cool them to form a consolidated filament structure. An assembly, system, and method are provided for shaping a plurality of strands of a molten thermoplastic resin as a contoured unitary mesh product via at least one shaping conveyor. Another assembly, system, and method are provided for shaping a plurality of strands of a molten thermoplastic resin as a contoured unitary mesh product via an actuator assembly having one or more actuators.