Symbol button for vehicle and manufacturing method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsWoo Chui Jung, Sung Ho Yoon, Jae Sik Seo, Choon Soo Lee
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Abstract
A manufacturing method of a symbol button for a vehicle includes: preparing a button body comprising a side portion, a top portion formed of a polymer material on which a metal is able to be plated; forming an electrically conductive layer on an outside of the button body using a conductive polymer material; forming a plating shielding layer in a form of a symbol using a material on which a metal is not able to be plated on the electrically conductive layer; and performing metal plating on the outside of the button body having the plating shielding layer.
Claims7
A symbol button for a vehicle, comprising:
- a button body comprising a side portion, and a top portion;
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- a symbol display portion positioned on the top portion of the button body;
- wherein the symbol display portion comprises an electrically conductive layer positioned on the top portion of the button body and a plating shielding layer positioned on the electrically conductive layer,
- a metal plating layer disposed on an outer surface of the button body other than the plating shielding layer,
- wherein the electrically conductive layer used a conductive polymer material,
- wherein the electrically conductive layer and the plating shielding layer have a light transmittance of 80% or more, and
- wherein the electrically conductive layer has a thickness of 5 to 15 μm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.