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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2003
Arthur C. Stein, Gross Isle, MI (US);
Ismael Rodriguez, West Chester, PA (US);
Roland Ewaniuk, Newtown Square, PA (US);
Thomas C. Sloane, Newtown Square, PA (US);
JSP Licenses, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A process for manufacturing a door trim panel with an integral soft armrest pad is provided which includes providing male and female steam chest mold halves, loading and restraining a cover material onto the female mold half, closing the male mold half to a fill position to form a cavity, inserting a divider into the cavity to separate the cavity into a low density volume and a high density volume, filling the high density volume with first polymeric material, filling the low density volume of the mold cavity with second polymeric material, withdrawing the divider from the mold cavity, and heating the first and second polymeric materials such that the first and second polymeric materials are melt bonded together, including at positions where particles from the first polymeric material contact particles from the second polymeric material. The low density volume creates the soft armrest pad.