Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Tsugunori Sugiura

Junji Koizumi

Tadashi Yamamoto

Motoshi Matsuura

Hiroshi Ogawa

Akira Uchiyama

Takayuki Ito

Tooru Koyama

Yuichi Itoh

Takanobu Ikeda

Yoshio Yamazaki

Minoru Niwa

Sadao Uchida

Kouji Shiraki

Masafumi Kurokawa

Yoshiaki Shichida

Yasuji Ozaki

Atsushi Goto

Shinichi Imazu

Kimio Jogan

Kimio Jyougan

A heat-resistant molded instrument panel article having a decorative appearance, produced at a relatively low cost, wherein the instrument panel article comprises a main body molded from a first synthetic resin, a section piece molded from a second synthetic resin such that the periphery of the section piece is partially or entirely surrounded by the main body, with the upper outer surface of the section piece abutting the upper outer surface of the main body, so that such surfaces form a single, level surface. A surface layer continuously covers the surface of the section piece and at least part of the surface of the main body. The main body is made of a first synthetic resin having an elastic modulus in flexure in a range of about 2,000 MPa to about 4,000 MPa and a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of about 3-12.times.10.sup.-5 .degree. C..sup.-1. The section piece is made of a second synthetic resin having an elastic modulus in flexure in a range of about 100 MPa to 700 MPa and a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of about 1-10.times.10.sup.-5 .degree. C..sup.-1. The surface layer is made of a third synthetic resin having an elastic modulus in flexure ranging from about 300 MPa to about 2,000 MPa and a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of about 3-12.times.10.sup.-5 .degree. C..sup.-1.

One-piece molded articles

An interior molded article for automobiles is disclosed, comprising a hard core portion and a soft coating portion for covering the hard core portion, wherein the soft coating portion comprises one or more layers and at least one of them comprises a thermoplastic elastomer material.

Interior molded article for automobiles

Steering wheel for motor vehicles

A cover pad for an air bag device, a main body of which is molded into a single layer using a resin/elastomer blend. The resin/elastomer blend is made by blending PP with an elastomer in a ratio ranging from 60/40 to 40/60 by weight. The elastomer is made by blending an EPM with a styrene-containing thermoplastic elastomer in a ratio ranging from 80/20 to 20/80 by weight. In addition, copolymerization of the EPM produces a propylene content ranging from 21 to 40 mol %; 3 mol %.ltoreq.P-P.ltoreq. 12 mol %; and 35 mol %.ltoreq.E-P.ltoreq.50 mol % (where P-P is the dyad chain configuration (.sup.13 C-NMR) of the propylene-propylene bond; and E-P is the dyad chain configuration (.sup.13 C-NMR) of the ethylene-propylene bond).

Cover pad for air bag device

Provided is a steering wheel pad made of a soft vinyl chloride resin composition. The soft vinyl chloride resin composition is 100 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride resin, 20 to 150 parts by weight of a thermoplastic aliphatic polyurethane, and 60 to 150 parts by weight of an alkyl phthalic ester having the following chemical formula: ##STR1## wherein m and n are 7 to 9. The alkyl phtalic ester has a linear chain ratio of an ester group of 80% or more.

Steering wheel pad molded of a soft vinyl chloride resin composition

A pad of air bag apparatus which, as a molded part, has an enhanced soft touch and which is protected against accelerated time-dependent changes in the physical properties of the pad's core and skin layers, wherein the pad covers the upper surface of an air bag apparatus which is to be mounted on the steering wheel of an automobile or in any other necessary areas. The pad includes of a skin layer formed of a soft first resin material and a core layer formed of a second resin material harder than the first resin material. The first resin material is a styrenic thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) or olefinic TPE having a hardness (JIS A) of 70 and less whereas the second resin material is a polyester based TPE having a flexural modulus of 1,000-4,000 kgf/cm.sup.2 (98-392 MPa) or a polyurethane based TPE having a flexural modulus of 1,000-2,500 kgf/cm.sup.2 (98-245 MPa).

Pad for air bag apparatus

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Aichi, Japan

Tsugunori Sugiura