According to the disclosure, a seat pad 2 includes a bag-contained pad part 250 including a foam body 240 and a bag body 230 arranged inside the foam body 240.

A fiber material is filled into a cavity of a tool to produce a product from the fiber material. The tool comprises a mold which defines the cavity therein and a holder which supports the mold. The holder is displaced to move the mold to at least one thermal treatment station The fiber material is thermally treated in the mold at the at least one thermal treatment station.

A foam molding method includes: sealing a core material and a skin material with a sealing part; and molding a foam layer on the inside of the sealing part. The sealing of the core material and the skin material with the sealing part includes sealing the core material and the skin material so that the sealing part includes a self sealing part for which an edge part of the skin material is housed in a recess provided in the core material, a clamp sealing part sealed by clamping the core material and the edge part of the skin material by foam molding molds, and a crimp sealing part arranged in a switchover part between the clamp sealing part and the self sealing part, and sealed by crimping the edge part of the skin material to the core material.

An example device includes: a memory storing instructions; and a processor connected to the memory. The instructions are to cause the processor to: receive predetermined locations of a fluidic input location and fluidic output locations at a three-dimensional (3D) object model; generate respective paths between the fluidic input and each of the fluidic outputs via associated portions of the 3D object model; replace the respective paths with respective hollow connectors that have respective fluidic resistance selected such that each of the fluidic outputs have a predetermined flow rate from the fluidic input to the fluid outputs; and store, at the memory, data indicative of locations and dimensions of the respective hollow connectors, relative to the fluidic input and the fluidic outputs, the data for use by a three-dimensional printer to print a part that includes the fluidic input, the fluidic outputs and the respective hollow connectors.

A seat system for a vehicle including a seat back assembly, a seat base assembly, and a headrest assembly. Each of the assemblies may include at least one formed part for providing comfort to an occupant of the seat system. A coated forming tool for producing the formed part of the seat system may be a mold assembly or a printing machine configured to form at least a portion of the formed part of the seat system. The coating of the coated forming tool comprises at least one of a nonstick or ecological material, and more preferably a polytetrafluroethylene (PTFE) material.

An apparatus for molding a foam pad with a wire assembly for an automotive vehicle includes a mold bowl operably coupled to a mold lid to define a mold cavity therebetween. The mold bowl includes a bottom surface and a peripheral wall extending upwardly from and encircling the bottom surface. A plurality of wire holders extend inwardly from and are spaced around the peripheral wall for vertically positioning the wire assembly within the mold cavity. A holding element, such as an arcuate recess, is disposed along an upper ledge of at least one of the wire holders for horizontally positioning the wire assembly within the mold cavity. The mold cavity receives a foam material for filling the mold cavity and surrounding the wire assembly to form the foam pad with the wire assembly embedded therein.

A seat assembly includes a fabric component having a seat surface and a frame including an interior segment directly attached to the fabric component. The interior segment extends from an exterior segment that has a greater flexural resistance than the interior segment.

A method for manufacturing a laminated molded body includes a cutting-out step for cutting out a cushion layer to form a cut-out part; a base material laminating step for forming a first laminated body; an insulating material placing step of attaching an insulating material to the cut-out part; a first thermocompression bonding step for bonding the first laminated body by thermocompression; a removing step for removing the cut-out part to form an opening; a skin laminating step for forming a second laminated body; and a second thermocompression bonding step for bonding the skin at the opening part to the lower layer material by bonding the second laminated body by thermocompression, the lower layer material being arranged below the cushion layer having the opening part.

A seat pad with improved thermal comfort and improved vibration absorptivity and a seat pad manufacturing method for easily obtaining the seat pad are provided. In the seat pad (1), when a surface portion (2) up to 10 mm from a surface (1f) is cut out and the air permeability AR1 of the surface portion (2) is measured in compliance with JIS K 6400, the air permeability AR1 is more than 5 cc/cm.sup.2/sec and 25 cc/cm.sup.2/sec or less. The seat pad manufacturing method is a seat pad manufacturing method for obtaining the seat pad (1) by supplying a molding material into a molding die and performing foam molding. As the molding die, a molding die an inner surface of which is covered with polystyrene or polyethylene is used.

According to the present invention, a side part cavity (23) in which a side part is molded, a body part cavity (24) in which a body part is molded, and an attachment part cavity (25) in which an attachment part is molded are formed between a plurality of molding molds (21, 22), and a guiding part (26) that is configured to guide a foam to the body part cavity when an undiluted foam solution of the second synthetic resin material supplied to the side part cavity foams is arranged at a part of the side part cavity adjacent to, in a left-right direction X, a rear end part of the body part cavity in which a non-contact part is molded.