US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 17 for "Method for heat-setting and laminating a 3D knitted fabric, laminating apparatus, interior component and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,406, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for heat-setting and laminating a 3D knitted fabric, laminating apparatus, interior component and motor vehicle" was invented by Thomas Aumann (Buch am Erlbach, Germany), Florian Dechant (Adlkofen, Germany) and Johann Gasslhuber (Buch am Erlbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for heat-setting and laminating a 3D knitted fabric, which fabric has hot-melt adhesive yarn, on a carrier device for an interior component of a motor vehicle, includes the following steps: arranging the 3D knitted fabric on the carrier device in a laminating ...