ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,187, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOKAI KOGYO Co. LTD. (Obu, Japan).
"Belt molding manufacturing method" was invented by Kazuhiro Funada (Obu, Japan) and Yoshiki Nukaya (Obu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt molding manufacturing method includes inserting an end cap into a molding body, performing an ultrasonic vibration processing, and performing a non-vibration pressing. The ultrasonic vibration pressing includes pushing an ultrasonic horn in an ultrasonic vibration state against at least one of the molding body and the end cap from a vehicle interior side toward a vehicle exterior side, such that a pressed porti...