Trim part for a motor vehicle, as well as method and device for its manufacture
AssigneeAuria Solutions UK I Ltd.
InventorsEugen Schimmelpfennig, Sascha Rauch, Georg Prahst, Manfred Hoffmann
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Abstract
The present disclosure pertains to a trim part for a motor vehicle that comprises: a carrier; and a decorative material applied onto an upper surface of the carrier, wherein the decorative material comprises a printed thermoplastic film; and wherein the trim part is shaped by a deep-drawing process and a grain or impression is produced on the visible side of the film, which faces away from the carrier, by the deep-drawing process. A method and a device for manufacturing the trim part is also proposed.
Claims18
A method for manufacturing a trim part for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- supplying a carrier and a decorative thermoplastic printed film material in the form of a composite material wherein the carrier comprises a nonwoven fiber material layer and a mechanical decoupling layer, wherein the mechanical decoupling layer is disposed between the nonwoven fiber material layer and the decorative material to provide mechanical decoupling between the nonwoven fiber material layer and the decorative material;
- heating the composite material wherein the composite material is heated to a lower temperature on a side of the decorative thermoplastic printed film material than on a side of the carrier;
- introducing the heated composite material into a compression molding tool that includes a first mold half with a first mold surface and an opposite second mold half with a second mold surface, wherein the decorative material faces the first mold surface;
- closing the compression molding tool to mold the composite material by drawing;
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- changing pressure within the compression molding tool to draw and/or press the composite material against the first mold surface and forming a grain or impression in said printed thermoplastic film material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.