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US 12,202,552 B2Granted
Exterior member for vehicle and method for manufacturing the same
AssigneesHayashi Telempu Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKensaku Sakai, Hiroshi Suzuki, Koushi Yamada, Motoi Iida, Masaru Shirota
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Abstract
A vehicle exterior member having a self-neutralizing function which can improve running characteristics and steering stability of a vehicle without impairing the design property has a fiber molded member containing a needle-punched nonwoven fabric or knitted fabric. The fibers constituting the fiber molded member contain a conductive fiber.
Claims5
A vehicle exterior member used in an exterior of a vehicle, comprising:
- a base layer containing fibers;
- and
- a skin layer containing fibers,
- wherein the base layer and the skin layer are laminated and integrated to constituting a fiber molded member including a needle-punched nonwoven fabric or knitted fabric,
- wherein a conductive fiber is contained 0.5 mass % or more but 7.0 mass % or less in the fibers constituting the skin layer, and the base layer is free of the conductive fiber,
- wherein the vehicle exterior member is configured to be attached to a vehicle body of the vehicle so that the skin layer faces a road-surface side,
- wherein a fiber length of the conductive fiber is 25 mm or more but 86 mm or less, and
- wherein a surface resistivity of a side of the skin layer is 2×1013 Ω/square or less.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.