Sound insulation with multilayer fibre insulation; and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a floor covering insulation for a motor vehicle with a multi-layer, preferably flocked, fibre insulation which, by a soft/smooth coupling layer to the wear surface, realises a sound insulation floor covering with improved acoustic and mechanical-physical properties, with a simultaneous reduction in weight if possible. Also disclosed is a process for manufacturing the sound insulation.
1 . A sound-insulating floor covering for a motor vehicle, which has an insulating device comprising fibres, wherein this insulating device extends along a longitudinal direction, a width direction and a thickness direction and wherein this insulation device has different acoustic and/or mechanical-physical properties in at least one of these directions, wherein this floor covering has a material structure which has at least one nonwoven element and at least one film element
wherein
the insulating device has a multilayer structure and at least one layer of this insulating device is selected from the group consisting of a flocked-layer with fibres, a layer containing fibres, and a foam layer, and this insulating device is connected to a wear surface of the insulating device and/or arranged thereon by a coupling layer, wherein the coupling layer has a compression hardness which is in a range between 0.2 kPa and 5 kPa.
2 . The sound-insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the floor covering has at least one layer or ply which is selected from a group of layers or plies which contains contact and/or foil fleeces, an acoustic and/or stiffening fleece, and a heavy foil.
3 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the insulation device contains binder and/or filler material.
4 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 3 ,
wherein
the filler material is selected from a group of filler materials consisting of natural fibres, plastic fibres, lumpy filling material made of plastic, PUR chips and natural substances.
5 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 3 ,
wherein
the filler material comprises rayon in a form of solid individual phases having a multi-leg cross-sectional shape with at least three legs, in which the legs of the cross-sectional profile each have a length/width ratio of at least 2:1 and/or the individual titre is 0.5 to 5 dtex.
6 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the wear surface is flocked, and the sound insulating floor covering is configured to be positioned in a form-fitting manner in a motor vehicle.
7 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the insulation device comprises thermoplastic binders in fibre form formed of a plastic material selected from the group consisting of PP, PET-BiCo, A-PET and PE.
8 . A motor vehicle with a floor covering according to claim 1 .
9 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the compression hardness of the fibre layer is at least twice as great as the compression hardness of the coupling layer.
10 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
a wear layer of the floor covering is positioned with the multilayer insulation device in a motor vehicle.
11 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the acoustic property is a measurable sound insulation.
12 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
said acoustic and/or mechanical physical properties change in the thickness direction.
13 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the material structure forms a wear surface, wherein the sub layers are adhesive layers.
14 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the material structure forms a wear surface, wherein the sub layers are sealing and heavy foils.
15 . The sound insulating floor covering according to claim 1 ,
wherein
the material structure forms a wear surface, wherein the sub layers are contact/foil nonwovens.
16 . A method for producing a sound-insulating floor covering with a multilayer flocked insulation device,
wherein
first a first and then a second layer is flocked in a flocking device, wherein the sequence of the material quality being selected in such a way that the layer which later faces the wear surface has a predetermined compression hardness in a range from 0.2 kPa to 5 kPa, and the other layer has a predetermined compression hardness in a range from 5 kPa to 30 kPa.
17 . The method according to claim 16 ,
wherein
by applying steam, a binder present in the insulation device is activated.
18 . The method according to claim 16 ,
wherein
a wear layer with at least one dense underlayer is inserted with its rear side over the layer of the insulation device, which contains a binder, into the steam/vacuum tool and the two-layer fibre insulation is bonded to the wear layer with at least one underlayer by the second-preferably flocked-fibre layer.
19 . The method according to claim 16 ,
wherein
by applying steam from the underside of the two-layer insulation device, in the insulation device—which contains a binder—the binder is activated and the wear layer, which is preformed in a separate process step, is bonded to the two-layer fibre insulation.
20 . The method according to claim 16 ,
wherein
the steam pressure is reduced by lower pressure on the upper side compared to the pressure on the lower side of the two-layer insulation device.