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US 11,712,876 B2Granted
Decorative housing and manufacturing device for same
AssigneesNissha Co., Ltd., ART&TECH Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasushi Watanabe, Hideharu Johno, Yasuhide Fukada
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Abstract
A housing included in a home appliance and used as a decorative housing is shaped like an inverted tray and includes a wood layer, a non-woven cloth layer bonded to the wood layer via a bonding resin layer, and a substrate resin layer fixed to the wood layer while infiltrating gaps between fibers in the non-woven cloth layer. A predetermined cutout pattern is formed on a colored coating film applied to a front surface of the non-woven cloth layer.
Claims9
A decorative housing, comprising:
- a decorative layer which is opaque;
- a non-woven cloth layer bonded to the decorative layer via a bonding resin layer;
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- a substrate resin layer fixed to the decorative layer while infiltrating gaps between fibers in the non-woven cloth layer, wherein
- a colored coating film with a cutout pattern is formed on a front surface or both surfaces of the non-woven cloth layer,
- the bonding resin layer comprises a resin selected from the group consisting of a polyvinyl acetal-based resin and an ethylene/acrylic copolymer-based resin, and
- the non-woven cloth layer has a thickness of from 50 to 1000 μm, and each of fibers of the non-woven cloth layer have a thickness of from 1 to 50 μm and a length of from 2 to 15 mm.
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