Symbol button for vehicle and manufacturing method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsWoo Chul 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.
Claims9
A manufacturing method of a symbol button for a vehicle, comprising:
- preparing a button body comprising a top portion and a side portion, wherein the top portion is formed of a polymer material that is metal-platable
- forming an electrically conductive layer on an outer surface of the button body using a conductive polymer material;
- forming, over the electrically conductive layer, a plating shielding layer in a form of a symbol using a plating shielding composition that is not metal-platable, wherein the plating shielding layer covers at least a portion of the electrically conductive layer;
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- performing metal plating to form a metallic layer on the outer surface of the button body:
- wherein preparing a button body further comprises manufacturing the button body by a double injection method through which the side portion and the top portion are made of different materials from each other;
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- wherein the side portion is made of a material that is not metal-platable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.