Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Yazaki Corporation

Other

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Goro Takahashi

Masayuki Kito

Mitsutaka Sako

Toshihiro Suzuki

Isao Yoneyama

Kosuke Geho

Masahiro Sawayanagi

Toshiaki Okabe

Yuji Hatagishi

Chiharu Totani

Kentaro Nagai

Minoru Shibata

Hiroyuki Tajima

Kazuyuki Shiraki

Hiroki Nakajima

Kenji Oishi

Fumitake Kobayashi

Yutaka Nagai

Yasushi Kubota

Tadao Tanaka

Katsunori Noto

Yasuyuki Shimizu

Masamichi Aono

Takuya Ohtsuka

Masato Kato

Hiroshi Sugihara

Yohei Migaki

Koji Sato

Junichi Harada

Mikio Sato

Yoshio Shirai

Shigeharu Ueyama

Takatoshi Negishi

Morio Oba

Yasushi Okamoto

Seigo Kuzumaki

Kosuke Tamaki

Masanobu Mutoh

Katsuhiko Kato

Koji Eguchi

Yoshiki Konishi

Shouichi Okumura

Kazuhiro Miyauchi

Disclosed herein are a fiber-reinforced material and an article made of the same. The fiber-reinforced material includes a fiber assembly and a matrix material coating the fiber assembly, the matrix material is a thermoplastic resin composition obtained by blending a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a modified elastomer that reacts with the polyamide resin. When a puncture test is performed at a striker speed of 1-4 msec and when a maximum impact force is applied is defined as Pand a deflection at break is defined as P, P/P≥4. When the amount of energy absorbed before a maximum impact force is applied is E, the amount of energy absorbed after a maximum impact force is applied and before break is E, and a total amount of absorbed energy of Eand Eis E, the ratio of E:Eis 70% or more.

Fiber-reinforced material and structure

Disclosed herein are a foamed resin molded body that has excellent impact resistance and rigidity and that is hardly fractured even when subjected to high impact, and a method for manufacturing the same. The foamed resin molded body is made of an olefin-based resin composition containing an olefin resin and a polyamide resin, the olefin-based resin composition has a continuous phase containing the olefin resin and a dispersed phase dispersed in the continuous phase and containing the polyamide resin, and the dispersed phase contains a melt-kneaded product of the polyamide resin and an elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin.

Foamed resin molded article and method for manufacturing same

A thermoplastic resin composition, a molded body, and first and second production methods are disclosed. The thermoplastic resin composition contains a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a modified elastomer and shows non-Newtonian properties in a fluidized state. The molded body includes the thermoplastic resin composition. The first production method includes molding the thermoplastic resin composition at a shear rate of 80 secor more and a standby step in which resin composition is on standby at a shear rate of 0 secor more but less than 80 sec. The second production method includes molding the resin composition at a shear rate Xto obtain part of a molded body and molding the resin composition at a shear rate Xto obtain another part of the molded body, wherein an absolute value of a difference between Xand Xis 200 secor more.

Thermoplastic resin composition, molded object, and production methods therefor

Disclosed herein are a vehicle door trim board that is less likely to break due to partial use of an impact resistant resin and a door trim using such a vehicle door trim board. A vehicle door trim board includes a reinforcing part made of an impact resistant resin containing a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a compatibilizer, wherein the compatibilizer is a modified elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin. The door trim includes: the vehicle door trim board; and a surface skin layer provided on a design surface side of the vehicle door trim board.

Trim board for vehicle door, and door trim

Disclosed herein are a thermoplastic resin sheet having excellent mechanical strength and excellent conformability during molding, a laminated sheet using such a thermoplastic resin sheet, and a molded body. The thermoplastic resin sheet includes a thermoplastic resin containing a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a compatibilizer, wherein the compatibilizer is a modified elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin. The laminated sheet includes a base layer containing a polyolefin resin and the thermoplastic resin sheet bonded to one surface of the base layer. The molded body includes a base body containing a polyolefin resin and the thermoplastic resin sheet or the laminated sheet bonded to one surface of the base body.

Thermoplastic resin sheet, laminated sheet, and molded object

A method for using a modifier that includes mixing 0.5 parts by mass or more but 70 parts by mass or less of the modifier per 100 parts by mass of a first polyolefin resin. The modifier is composed of a continuous phase (A) containing a second polyolefin resin, and a dispersed phase (B) dispersed in the continuous phase (A) and containing a polyamide resin and a modified elastomer. The dispersed phase (B) is composed of a melt-kneaded product of the polyamide resin and the modified elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin. When a total of the continuous phase (A) and the dispersed phase (B) is 100% by mass, a content of the dispersed phase (B) is 80% by mass or less.

Modifier, usage therefor, production method for modifier, and carrier for additive material

Disclosed herein is an energy absorber having excellent impact resistance and excellent impact energy absorbability. The energy absorber includes an olefin-based resin composition obtained by mixing an olefin resin, a polyamide resin, and an elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin, wherein the olefin-based resin composition has a continuous phase containing the olefin resin and a polyamide resin-based dispersed phase dispersed in the continuous phase, and the polyamide resin-based dispersed phase has a structure in which the elastomer is contained in a matrix phase containing the polyamide resin.

Energy absorber

Disclosed herein are a molded body having a continuous phase (A) containing a first polyolefin resin and a second polyolefin resin and a dispersed phase (B) containing a polyamide resin and a modified elastomer, wherein the dispersed phase (B) is composed of a melt-kneaded product of the polyamide resin and the modified elastomer, and wherein when a total of the continuous phase (A) and the dispersed phase (B) is 100% by mass, a content of the dispersed phase (B) is 70% by mass or less, and when a total of the first polyolefin resin and the second polyolefin resin is 100% by mass, a content of the second polyolefin resin is 70% by mass or less, and a method including the steps of: obtaining a molded body raw material by mixing a first polyolefin resin and an impact-resistant resin obtained by melt-kneading a second polyolefin resin and a melt-kneaded product of a polyamide resin and a modified elastomer; and obtaining a molded body.

Molded body and production method therefor

Disclosed is a method for adjusting a dispersion diameter to control the dispersion diameter of a dispersed phase in a thermoplastic resin composition having a multiphase structure, and a thermoplastic resin composition obtained by the method. The method includes mixing a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a compatibilizer and has a continuous phase composed of the polyolefin resin and a dispersed phase dispersed in the continuous phase and composed of the polyamide resin where the compatibilizer is a polymer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin, and that an amount of the polymer to be mixed based on a total of the polyolefin resin and the polyamide resin is varied to adjust a dispersion diameter of the dispersed phase. This composition has 50 or more but 450 or less the dispersed phase per 10 micrometers square.

Dispersion diameter adjustment method and thermoplastic resin composition

A thermoplastic resin composition, a method for manufacturing the same, and a molded body are provided. The composition includes a polyolefin resin PO, a polyimide resin PA, and a compatibilizer. The composition has a first phase composed of the PA and compatibilizer and/or a reaction product thereof and a second phase composed of the PO and interposed between the first phases. The first phase has a matrix phase composed of the PA and a dispersed phase dispersed in the matrix phase and composed of the compatibilizer and/or a reaction product thereof. The first phase includes a branched phase having branch portions. The method includes melt-kneading the PA and compatibilizer so that a mixing ratio of the compatibilizer is 11% by mass or more but 45% by mass or less per 100% by mass of a total of the PO, PA, and compatibilizer, and melt-kneading an obtained composition and the PO.

Thermoplastic resin composition, production method therefor, and molded body

A product design CAD data reconstruction unitreconstructs product design CAD data used for product evaluation regarding an initial design so as to fulfill restrictive conditions obtained from the product evaluation based on a product structure for the initial design. The reconstructed product design CAD data is stored in a product design CAD data database. Upon reception of a corrected design obtained by correcting the initial design, the product design CAD data for the initial design is read from the product design CAAD data database, and the product design CAD data is corrected along a design surface of the corrected design.

System and method for product designing, and recording medium

A connection portion () of an FFC () to be preliminarily arranged on a roof trim () is weld-fixed to cable connecting portions () of a bus bar () and a spring terminal () of a room lamp (). Simultaneously with the arrangement of the FFC () on a vehicle-body-panel-side portion of the roof trim, the room lamp () is mounted in the lamp mounting window.

Lamp unit assembling method and lamp unit mounting structure

In a bracket connecting structure, hooks ( ) are respectively provided on one end side and another end side of a surface of a base plate ( ) of a panel-side bracket ( ), the hooks are engaged with opposing peripheral edge portions of an opening ( ) formed in a trim ( ), so as to fix the panel-side bracket ( ) to the trim, and a thin-walled portion ( ) which traverses an intermediate portion of the base plate between the hook on the one end side and the hook on the other end side is provided in the base plate. Thus the base plate is made deflectable at that portion. The thin-walled portion ( ) is formed by forming a U-shaped groove ( ) of the base plate, and the U-shaped groove is used as a groove for passing a flat cable ( ) through the groove.

Bracket connecting structure

A connection portion ( ) of an FFC ( ) to be preliminarily arranged on a roof trim ( ) is weld-fixed to cable connecting portions ( ) of a bus bar ( ) and a spring terminal ( ) of a room lamp ( ). Simultaneously with the arrangement of the FFC ( ) on a vehicle-body-panel-side portion of the roof trim, the room lamp ( ) is mounted in the lamp mounting window.

A first bracket has a first connector and a plurality of engagement members. The engagement members guide engagement protrusions mentioned later inside to engage with them. A second bracket has a second connector and a plurality of engagement protrusions to be fitted into the engagement members and having a height greater than that of the second connector. The second bracket supports an auxiliary component. During interconnection of the brackets, the engagement protrusions are inserted into the engagement members before the connectors are fitted to one another. The guiding and engagement of the engagement protrusions into and with the engagement members lead to fitting of the connectors to one another and interconnection of the brackets, resulting in the auxiliary component fixed to the first bracket.

Bracket interconnection structure for auxiliary component

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Goro Takahashi