IP Library Granted Patent US 12,296,758
Granted Patent B2
US 12,296,758 · App. 17/493,013 · Granted May 13, 2025

Vehicle interior materials and their manufacturing methods therefor

Inventors: Hajime Miyamoto (Tokyo, JP); Masahiko Nakayama (Tokyo, JP); Shoichiro Negishi (Tokyo, JP); Yasuki Kamo (Tokyo, JP); Fumihiko Inoue (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: Okamoto Industries, Inc.
B60R13/02B32B3/02B32B5/18B32B7/05B32B27/065B32B37/10B32B37/18B32B2305/022B32B2307/402B32B2605/003
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Patent No.
US 12,296,758
App. No.
17/493,013
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Interior material for vehicle including a foamed sheet layer having a foam surface opposing a first rear surface of the first sheet layer, a first sheet layer joined along the foam surface, and a second sheet layer joined to a part of a first surface of the first sheet layer, bonded together while a surface boundary of the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer is kept linear, in which a first surface of the first sheet layer has a joined portion having a width dimension substantially the same as that of the second sheet layer and formed linearly, and a surface treated layer formed excluding the joined portion, and the second sheet layer joined along the joined portion and bonded together by a pressing force with a second surface of the second sheet layer and a foam rear surface of the foamed sheet layer as pressure receiving surfaces.

Claims (19)

1. An interior material for a vehicle in which a first sheet layer and a second sheet layer in different colors are stacked on a surface side of a foamed sheet layer and bonded together by a pressing force in a stacking direction, comprising:

the foamed sheet layer having a foam surface opposing a first rear surface of the first sheet layer;

the first sheet layer joined along the foam surface; and

the second sheet layer joined directly to a joined portion of a part of a first surface of the first sheet layer, wherein

the joined portion is formed linearly and has substantially the same width dimension as the width dimension of the second sheet layer,

the first sheet layer is made of an elastically deformable resin,

the first surface of the first sheet layer has the joined portion and a surface treated layer formed over the entire first surface excluding the joined portion, the second sheet layer is bonded along the joined portion so that a part of a side surface of the second sheet layer abuts against a layer wall of the surface treated layer,

the second sheet layer has a second surface disposed so as to protrude in the stacking direction more than the surface treated layer formed on the first surface, and a stepped part formed from the side surface of the second sheet layer to the first surface, and

the second surface of the second sheet layer and a rear surface of the foamed sheet layer further work as pressure receiving surfaces for receiving the pressing force, wherein the second sheet layer consists of a single layer in the stacking direction.

2. The interior material for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

a plurality of types of second sheet layers in different colors are disposed side by side as the second sheet layer.

3. The interior material for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the surface treated layer is not present between the second sheet layer and the joined portion of the part of the first surface of the first sheet layer.

4. A method for manufacturing an interior material for a vehicle in which a first sheet layer and a second sheet layer in different colors are stacked on a surface side of a foamed sheet layer and bonded together by a pressing force in a stacking direction, comprising:

a surface treating process of forming a surface treated layer on a first surface of the first sheet layer, over the entire first surface excluding a joined portion which has substantially the same width dimension as that of the second sheet layer and is linear;

a first stacking process of joining the second sheet layer directly to the joined portion of the first surface so that a part of a side surface of the second sheet layer abuts against a layer wall of the surface treated layer;

a second stacking process of joining a foam surface of the foamed sheet layer to a first rear surface of the first sheet layer; and

a bonding process of bonding the second sheet layer, the first sheet layer, and the foamed sheet layer by the pressing force with a second surface of the second sheet layer and a foam rear surface of the foamed sheet layer as pressure receiving surfaces, wherein

the first sheet layer is made of an elastically deformable resin, and

the second sheet layer has the second surface disposed so as to protrude in the stacking direction more than the surface treated layer formed on the first surface, and a stepped part formed from the side surface of the second sheet layer the first surface, wherein the second sheet layer consists of a single layer in the stacking direction.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2024
From: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
To: OKAMOTO INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 066579/0378 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 17, 2021
From: MIYAMOTO, HAJIME; NAKAYAMA, MASAHIKO; NEGISHI, SHOICHIRO; KAMO, YASUKI; INOUE, FUMIHIKO
To: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.; OKAMOTO INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 058419/0682 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-169706 · Oct 7, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220105880A1 · Apr 7, 2022
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