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US 10,596,944 B2Granted
Floor carpet for vehicles and method for producing same
AssigneesToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Otsuka Corporation
InventorsAtsuhiro Hattori, Kazunori Kawai
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Abstract
The vehicle floor carpet of the present invention includes a skin layer, a thermoplastic resin layer, and a base layer in this order, the thermoplastic resin layer has a plurality of open hole parts penetrating through the thermoplastic resin layer in the thickness direction, and the open hole parts are arranged on recesses in a surface of the skin layer or recesses in a surface of the base layer at the side of the thermoplastic resin layer.
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A vehicle floor carpet comprising:
- a skin layer, a thermoplastic resin layer, and a base layer in this order;
- a plurality of internal recesses formed on at least one of a surface of the skin layer and a surface of the base layer at a side interfacing with the thermoplastic resin layer, wherein the plurality of internal recesses are present in the at least one of the surface of the skin layer and the surface of the base layer because a material comprising at least one of the skin layer and the base layer is a fiber material, and
- a thermoplastic resin layer having a melt flow rate in a range from 2 to 100 g/10 minutes and a plurality of thermally-formed cavities penetrating through the thermoplastic resin layer in the thickness direction,
- wherein the thermally-formed cavities are formed to extend from the plurality of formed internal recesses, respectively, due to an increased thermal conductivity within the plurality of internal recesses.
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