Fiber-reinforced resin structure

• US 9,321,379 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toray Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Toray Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Koji, Kimoto, Yukitane, Shimizu, Nobuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chi Q
• Application Number:
  US14/356,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20140252837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,229 Days
• Field of Search: 297/216.13, 297/216.18, 297/216.16, 297/216.14, 297/452.18, 297/284.1, 297/284.11, 297/452.2, 297/451.9, 297/463.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 70/06 Fibrous reinforcements only
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 70/86 Incorporated in coherent impregnated reinforcing layers, e.g. by winding
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/22 the back-rest being adjustable B60N2/2878 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/4214 longitudinal
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/4228 due to impact coming from the rear
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/42709 involving residual deformation or fracture of the structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/663 portable with attachment to the back-rest
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/68 Seat frames
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/682 Joining means
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/686 Panel like structures
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/63 Frangible connections
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1369 Fiber or fibers wound around each other or into a self-sustaining shape [e.g., yarn, braid, fibers shaped around a core, etc.]

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.

Claims

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.