Bonding sheet material for weather strip, weather strip, and method for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12528343-B2
Application number	US-202117925053-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 13, 2021
Priority date	May 15, 2020
Publication date	Jan 20, 2026
Grant date	Jan 20, 2026

Abstract

A bonding sheet material for a weather strip disclosed herein is a composition including at least EPDM, a cross-linking agent, and carbon black, and has a volume resistivity of 1.0×106 Ω·cm or more based on a double ring electrode method of JIS-K6271-1: 2015 where a test piece has a thickness of 2 mm. When the composition is placed in a mold and molded to press the composition at 50° C. under 100 Kgf/cm2 for 60 seconds whereby a molded article is produced, the molded article has a thickness change rate of 100% or less, the thickness change rate being represented by formula (1): Thickness change rate=((thickness of molded article after 30 minutes from releasing press−thickness of mold)/thickness of mold)×100.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A bonding sheet material for a weather strip, the bonding sheet material being configured to bond opposite end portions of a weather strip material to each other, wherein
the bonding sheet material is a composition including at least EPDM, a cross-linking agent, and carbon black, the bonding sheet material has a volume resistivity of 1.0×10 6 Ω·cm or more based on a double ring electrode method of JIS-K6271-1: 2015 where a test piece has a thickness of 2 mm, when the composition is placed in a mold and molded to press the composition at 50° C. under 100 Kgf/cm 2 for 60 seconds whereby a molded article is produced, the molded article has a thickness change rate of 100% or less, the thickness change rate being represented by a formula (1), the formula (1): Thickness change rate=((thickness of molded article after 30 minutes from releasing press-thickness of mold)/thickness of mold)×100, and when a total amount of the composition configuring the bonding sheet material is defined as 100% by volume, a blending ratio of the carbon black is 11% or more by volume and 19% or less by volume.

2 . The bonding sheet material according to claim 1 , wherein
when a total amount of the composition configuring the bonding sheet material is defined as 100% by volume, a blending ratio of the carbon black is 16% or less by volume.

3 . A weather strip comprising:
a main body portion having end portions; and a bonding portion that bonds the opposite end portions of the main body portion to each other, wherein the bonding portion is formed of a cross-linked product of the bonding sheet material according to claim 1 .

4 . The weather strip according to claim 3 , wherein
the bonding sheet material has a thickness of 1.0 mm or less.

5 . A method for producing a weather strip including a main body portion having end portions and a bonding portion that bonds the opposite end portions of the main body portion to each other, the method comprising:
preparing a weather strip material for forming the main body portion and a bonding sheet material for forming the bonding portion; and cross-linking the bonding sheet material by placing the bonding sheet material between the opposite end portions of the weather strip material, wherein the bonding sheet material satisfies all of the following conditions:
a composition including at least EPDM, a cross-linking agent, and carbon black;
a volume resistivity of 1.0×10 6 Ω·cm or more based on a double ring electrode method of JIS-K6271-1: 2015 where a test piece has a thickness of 2 mm;
when the composition is placed in a mold and molded to press the composition at 50° C. under 100 Kgf/cm 2 for 60 seconds whereby a molded article is produced, the molded article has a thickness change rate of 100% or less, the thickness change rate being represented by a formula (1);
the formula (1): Thickness change rate=((thickness of molded article after 30 minutes from releasing press-thickness of mold)/thickness of mold)×100; and
when a total amount of the composition configuring the bonding sheet material is defined as 100% by volume, a blending ratio of the carbon black is 11% or more by volume and 19% or less by volume.

6 . The production method according to claim 5 , wherein
the preparing includes producing the bonding sheet material by putting the composition into a press mold and molding to press the composition.

7 . The production method according to claim 6 , wherein
the preparing includes using the press mold having a thickness of 0.5 mm or more when the mold is closed.

8 . The production method according to claim 5 , wherein
the preparing includes preparing the bonding sheet material having a thickness of 1.0 mm or less.

Assignees

• Tokai Kogyo Co Ltd

Inventors

• Okamura Satoshi
• Fukushima Yasuhiro

Classifications

• B29C43/021 Primary

  characterised by the shape of the surface · CPC title

• B60J10/84

  arranged on the vehicle body · CPC title

• B60J10/21

  having corner parts or bends · CPC title

• B60J10/235

  the parts being joined along their longitudinal direction · CPC title

• B60J10/15

  characterised by the material · CPC title