US 10,507,609 B2 · Vehicle trim component

Abstract

A vehicle trim component is disclosed. The vehicle trim component may be prepared by a process comprising heating and placing a fiber panel into a mold cavity, compressing the fiber panel in the mold cavity to form a compression formed component providing a structural substrate having a thickness along an edge and injecting resin into the mold cavity with the structural substrate. A border may be formed along the thickness of the structural substrate by the injected resin; the border may provide dimensional accuracy at the edge of the structural substrate notwithstanding variations in the fiber panel. A resin feature (such as a part, component, connector, reinforcing element, weakened zone, shape, etc.) may be formed in or on the structural substrate by the injected resin (e.g. in a gap or void). The resin feature may comprise a rib to extend across an interface between the structural substrate and the border.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A vehicle trim component comprising a fiber panel compression formed in a mold cavity prepared by a process comprising the steps of:

heating the fiber panel;
placing the fiber panel into the mold cavity;
compressing the fiber panel in the mold cavity to form a compression formed component comprising an edge along a periphery and providing a structural substrate having a shape and a thickness along the edge;
and
injecting resin into the mold cavity with the structural substrate;
wherein the shape of the structural substrate is formed in the mold cavity;
wherein a border of the structural substrate is formed along the thickness of the structural substrate by the resin injected into the mold cavity;
and
wherein a rib for the structural substrate is formed by the resin injected into the mold cavity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/995,621Filed 1 Jun 2018 · continuation

Priority

30 Aug 2011

Published

US 2018/0281246 A14 Oct 2018

Granted

17 Dec 2019

Term ends

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Classification32 codes

B29C 45/0005
Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor: using fibre…
B29C 43/02
Compression moulding, i.e. applying external pressure to flow the moulding material; Apparatus therefor: of articles of definite length, i.e.…
B29C 43/361
Moulds for making articles of definite length, i.e. discrete articles: with pressing members independently movable of the parts for opening or…
B29C 43/40
Moulds for making articles of definite length, i.e. discrete articles: with means for cutting the article

Family

Application61/528,832Us provisional application · filed 30 Aug 2011

Application13/595,741Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Aug 2012

Application13/846,529Parent of this division · filed 18 Mar 2013

US 8,939,745 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Jan 2015

Application14/808,938Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Jul 2015

US 9,149,961 B2Parent of this division · filed 6 Oct 2015

US 2018/0281246 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Oct 2018

US 10,118,325 B2Parent of this continuation

Application14/808,938Parent of this division

Application13/846,529Parent of this continuation

US 2013/0052412 A1Published application

US 2013/0216757 A1Published application

US 2015/0328809 A1Published application

US 10,507,609 B2This patent

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Abstract

Claims20