Method of manufacturing in-mold decorative molded article

Abstract

A method of manufacturing an in-mold decorative molded article capable of transferring a decorative pattern with target dimensions at a target position of a decorative molded article according to the present disclosure includes supplying an in-mold transfer foil to a metal mold, in which a clear layer having transparency and lower extensibility than a base material film is formed in the first layer on an in-mold raw fabric configured by forming a mold releasing layer and a primer layer on the base material film and a decorative figure is printed in the second and subsequent layers on the in-mold raw fabric, clamping the metal mold, injecting and cooling a molding resin and taking out an molded article formed of the molding resin cooled and cured in the metal mold in which the clear layer and a transfer layer having the decorative figure in the in-mold transfer foil are integrated on the surface by opening the mold, molding the molded article integrally with a cutting portion not necessary for a target product inside the metal mold by the molding resin at an outer periphery of the product and arranging a boundary of a printing region of the clear layer in the in-mold transfer foil in the cutting portion so as to be larger than the outer periphery of the product.

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