Sound absorbing material and method of producing sound absorbing material

Abstract

A sound absorbing material according to an embodiment is a sound absorbing material (1) absorbing sound from a component, the sound absorbing material including a rising portion (4) rising from an attachment portion P to which the sound absorbing material (1) is attached, and an opposing portion (5) opposing the component on a side of the rising portion (4) opposite to the attachment portion P, wherein each of the rising portion (4) and the opposing portion (5) includes a core layer (11) and a ventilation resistant layer (12), and in at least a part of the opposing portion (5) and the rising portion (4), a variation in thickness T of the ventilation resistant layer (12) is 40% or less of an average value of the thickness T of the ventilation resistant layer (12).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.