Trimming materials for automobiles

• US 7,144,611 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2004
• Issued: 12/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Corporation (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Corporation (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Tetsuya, Tanabe, Kazuo, Senoo, Rintaro
• Primary Examiner(s): ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E
• Application Number:
  US10/754,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20040142121A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,063 Days
• Field of Search: 428/31, 428/212, 428/347, 428/354, 428/411.1
• US Class Current: 428/31
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 7/10 at least one layer having inter-reactive properties
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/02 Internal Trim mouldings ; Internal Ledges; Wall liners for passenger compartments; Roof liners B60R13/01 takes precedence ; padded linings for the vehicle interior B60R21/04; arrangements or adaptations of floor mats or carpets in vehicles B60N3/04; internal lining for trains B61D17/18
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24942 including components having same physical characteristic in differing degree
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2848 Three or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31504 Composite [nonstructural laminate]

Abstract

A trimming material for an automobile includes a surface skin material, a base material, and a colored resin film interposed between the surface skin material and the base material. The surface skin material and the base material are bonded to each other via the resin film. The resin film includes a surface-side adhesion layer on the side of the surface skin material, a base-side adhesion layer on the side of the base material, and a barrier layer interposed between the surface-side adhesion layer and the base-side adhesion layer and bonded thereto. The barrier layer is made of non-gas and liquid permeable material that is not melted at a temperature that causes the surface-side adhesion layer and the base-side adhesion layer to be melted.

Claims

1. A trimming material for an automobile comprising:

a surface skin material;

a base material; and

a colored film interposed between the surface skin material and the base material comprising;

a surface-side adhesion layer bonded to the surface skin material, and

a base-side adhesion layer bonded to the base material, and

a barrier layer interposed between the surface-side adhesion layer and the base-side adhesion layer and bonded thereto;

a first mutual adhesion layer interposed between the surface-side adhesion layer and die barrier layer, and

a second mutual adhesion layer interposed between the base-side adhesion layer and the barrier layer, wherein;

each of the surface-side adhesion layer and the base-side adhesion layer is a solid layer made of resin and is melted by heat to a liquid phase during formation of the trimming material;

the barrier layer is made of a non-permeable resin material that prevents the melted surface-side adhesion layer and the melted base-side adhesion layer from entering the barrier layer;

the barrier layer has a melting point that is higher than a melting point of either of the individual melting points of the surface-side adhesion layer and the base-side adhesion layer; and

each of the first mutual adhesion layer and the second mutual adhesion layer is made of resin having a melting point lower than the melting point of the barrier layer.

2. A trimming material as in claim 1, wherein the surface skin material is colored with a first color, and at least one of the surface-side adhesion layer, the base-side adhesion layer, and the barrier layer, is colored with a second color.

3. A trimming material as in claim 2, wherein the second color is the same as or similar to the first color.

4. A trimming material as in claim 2, wherein the second color is an achromatic color that has substantially the same brightness as the first color.

5. A trimming material as in claim 2, wherein at least one of the base-side adhesion layer and the barrier layer is colored with the second color.

6. A trimming material as in claim 1, wherein the surface skin material is colored with a first color, and at least two of the surface-side adhesion layer, the base-side adhesion layer, and the barrier layer, are respectively colored with a second and third color, that exhibits a fourth color when all of the colors are overlaid with each other.

7. A trimming material as in claim 6, wherein the fourth color is the same as or similar to the first color.