Nippon Zeon Company, Ltd.

Zeon Kasei Co., Ltd.

Noboru Hino

Toshio Nagase

Yutaka Kagoshima

Seiki Yada

Takamitsu Mikuni

A vibration-damping structural body for a vehicle, which comprises a sublayer sheet composed of a foamed thermoset resin and fusion-bonded onto a vehicle part, and at least one layer, which is fusion-bonded onto the sublayer and is selected from a damping intermediate sheet (2) comprised of a viscoelastic material and restraining sheet (3). The sublayer sheet (1) is formed from a semi-gelled sheet made by heating a forming and thermosetting resin composition comprising (A) an epoxy resin, (B) a coreacting curing agent, (C) a foaming agent, (D) a surface active agent and (E) a rubber-like elastic material or a powdery thermoplastic resin not containing halogen, which is insoluble in the epoxy resin at room temperature, but is miscible with and dispersible in the epoxy resin at 80.degree. to 150.degree. C.

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Yokohama, Japan

Noboru Hino