Kasai Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Shoichi Itoh

Kazuhiro Tokunaga

Takashi Tsubosaki

Shozo Yabushita

In a method and molding apparatus for laminated molded bodies, a thermal-molding felt and a thermoplastic resin sheet, respectively in hot and soft condition, are set or placed on a mold face of cold-pressing-molding lower mold. A cold-pressing-molding upper mold lowers onto the lower mold to press the the thermal-molding felt and thermoplastic resin sheet. Simultaneously, cooling air is supplied to center portion of the thermal-molding felt through a blowing pipe protruding from mold face of the thermal-molding felt side and intruding into the felt accelerating circulation of cooling air and cooling of the thermoplastic resin sheet.

Molding method for laminated body using cooling air

An automotive interior component consisting of a resin core member having a required shape and a surface skin member for imparting a favorable surface property thereto in which a peripheral portion of the surface skin member is folded back and secured onto a reverse surface of a resin core member in a quick and reliable manner without using any bonding agent, and a device and method for manufacturing the same. By blowing hot air produced from an annular hot air supply pipe arranged along a reverse surface of the peripheral portion of the resin core member and a reverse surface of the folded back portion of the surface skin member which is combined with the resin core member as a half-finished assembly, the folded back portion of the surface skin member is thermally welded and secured to the reverse surface of the resin core member.

Automotive interior components, and method and device for manufacturing

In a method and molding apparatus for laminated molded bodies, a thermal-molding felt and a thermoplastic resin sheet, respectively in hot and soft condition, are set or placed on a mold face of a cold-pressing-molding lower mold. A cold-pressing-molding upper mold lowers onto the lower mold to press the thermal-molding felt and the thermoplastic resin sheet. Simultaneously, cooling air is supplied to center portion of the thermal-molding felt through a blowing pipe protruding from mold face of the thermal-molding felt side and intruding into the felt accelerating circulation of cooling air and cooling of the thermoplastic resin sheet.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Shoichi Itoh