Fender liner for vehicle and method for fabricating the same
AssigneesHirotani Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasahiro Uehara, Tomohiro Manji, Nobuyuki Tanigawa, Kyota Matsuo
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Abstract
To provide a vehicle fender liner configured to easily form a solid shape and exhibit superior sound-absorption performance and excellent anti-icing, a fender liner 10 serving as a sound-absorption member to be attached to a vehicle includes a base-material layer 11 having sound-absorption function. The base-material layer 11 is formed into a solid shape of a fender liner by producing a sheet of a fibrous web 14 obtained by interlocking main fibers 12 and binder fibers 13 having a melting point lower than that of the main fibers 12, integrally providing a waterproof protective film of an LDPE resin, and then performing hot press mold.
Claims3
A vehicle fender liner, comprising:
- a base-material layer having a sound-absorption function;
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- a waterproof protective film provided on a surface of the base-material layer, wherein
- the base-material layer includes a fibrous web formed by interlocking main fibers and binder fibers having a melting point lower than that of the main fibers,
- and an LDPE resin is integrally provided as the waterproof protective film,
- wherein the waterproof protective film of the LDPE resin has a softening point substantially equal to that of the binder fibers of the base-material layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.