US 12,330,406 B2
Method for heat-setting and laminating a 3D knitted fabric, laminating apparatus, interior component and motor vehicle
Thomas Aumann, Buch am Erlbach (DE); Florian Dechant, Adlkofen (DE); and Johann Gasslhuber, Buch am Erlbach (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/968,000.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 127 047.2 (DE), filed on Oct. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0124099 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B32B 37/12 (2006.01); B32B 5/02 (2006.01); B32B 38/08 (2006.01)
CPC B32B 37/1207 (2013.01) [B32B 5/026 (2013.01); B32B 38/08 (2013.01); B32B 2037/1215 (2013.01); B32B 2250/02 (2013.01); B32B 2260/021 (2013.01); B32B 2260/046 (2013.01); B32B 2262/152 (2021.05); B32B 2305/07 (2013.01); B32B 2305/186 (2013.01); B32B 2310/0806 (2013.01); B32B 2605/003 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for heat-setting and laminating a knitted fabric on a carrier device for an interior component of a motor vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:
arranging a 3D knitted fabric on the carrier device in a laminating apparatus, the 3D knitted fabric comprising a hot-melt adhesive yarn;
heat-setting the 3D knitted fabric by activating the hot-melt adhesive yarn by way of the laminating apparatus; and
laminating the heat-set 3D knitted fabric on the carrier device by way of the laminating apparatus.