Interior panel and injection molding method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9511722-B2
Application number	US-201414186443-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 21, 2014
Priority date	Aug 9, 2006
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A resin-made interior panel molded into a thin-plate shape using a cavity die and a core die in which portions which corresponds to undercut portions with respect to the die-cutting direction of the molding die includes on the front surface side of a panel a flat bottom portion having a shape which cancels an entire undercut space on the side of the core-die and a rib structure having a plurality of ribs projecting in the shape of plugging back the undercut space and having a plurality of grooves extending from the bottom portion in the die-cut direction. According to the invention as described above, means which maintain the design shape of the interior panel on the front surface side having the undercut portions is provided without necessity of a slide die in the core die.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An injection molding die for molding a resin-made interior panel molded into a thin-plate shape, said injection molding die including a pair of dies, the pair of dies comprising:
a cavity die adapted for forming a front surface side of a panel comprising the resin-made interior panel molded into a thin-plate shape, and
a core die adapted for forming a back surface side of the panel, one of the dies being a fixed die having a molten resin supply channel structure integrated therein and the other of the dies being a movable die opposing the fixed die, the core die being adapted to avoid an undercut between a first portion of the panel extending along a first direction and a second portion of the panel extending along a second direction by forming an adapted portion of the panel between said first portion and said second portion;
wherein in a cross section through the first portion, second portion, and adapted portion, the first portion extends in the first direction to meet the adapted portion, the adapted portion extends in a third direction to meet the second portion, and the second portion extends in the second direction from the adapted portion, so that said adapted portion extends within said cross section at an angle to said first direction and said second direction;
wherein said core die is adapted to form said adapted portion that serves to avoid occurrence of said undercut so that said adapted portion includes a straight length portion extending from said first portion to said second portion within said cross section, and a rib portion extending within said cross section from said straight length portion; and
wherein said dies are further adapted to form said rib portion to a height by which a distal tip of the rib portion within said cross section lies between said first portion and said second portion on a line, within said cross section, extending in said first direction from said first portion; and
wherein the adapted portion occupies an area within said cross section bounded by:
a first straight line being said straight length portion;
second straight line extending in said first direction to said distal tip from a first end point of said straight length portion at a junction of said straight length portion and said first portion; and
a third straight line extending from said distal tip to a second end point of said straight length portion at a junction of said straight length portion and said second portion; and
wherein said area serves in place of the undercut.

2. An injection molding method for molding a resin-made interior panel into a thin-plate shape comprising injecting the resin into an injection molding die of claim 1 so as to define said thin-plate shape.

3. The injection molding method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
injecting and filling the resin comprising a molten resin as a distance between the cavity die and the core die is increased,
moving the core die toward the cavity die; and
filling the molten resin entirely within the interior of the cavity die.

Assignees

• Toyota Auto Body Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kitajima Masanobu
• Usami Junya
• Murase Takao

Classifications

• B29C33/44

  with means for, or specially constructed to facilitate, the removal of articles, e.g. of undercut articles · CPC title

• B60R13/0256

  Dashboard liners · CPC title

• B29L2031/3008

  Instrument panels · CPC title

• Y10T428/24612

  Composite web or sheet · CPC title

• B29C45/33

  having transversely, e.g. radially, movable mould parts · CPC title