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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1998
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for vibration welding of lighting equipment for a vehicle, comprising the steps of: holding a lighting equipment body which is one synthetic resin-made component member of lighting equipment for a vehicle, in a body receiving jig; holding a front lens which is another synthetic resin-made component member thereof, in a lens receiving jig, the body receiving jig being provided with a stabilizing member whose hardness is higher than that of the lighting equipment body and which has a projection with a pointed tip; fixing the lighting equipment body in the body receiving jig and the front lens in the lens receiving jig and causing the stabilizing member to bite into a back surface of the lighting equipment body; and causing one of the body receiving jig and the lens receiving jig to vibrate so as to allow the lighting equipment body and the front lens to be vibration welded.