B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – R
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
R
B60R 13/02 (2006.01) B29C 45/00 (2006.01) B29C 59/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2494402
A method of producing tight bezel fits between automotive interior panels and their mating subcomponents. The method includes forming at laminate preform, injection molding a substrate layer behind the laminate preform to form a molded automotive interior panel, and forming an opening in the molded automotive interior panel. The method further includes post embossing the molded automotive interior panel adjacent a perimeter of the opening to produce an embossed interface between the molded automotive interior panel and a mating subcomponent installed in the opening, thereby producing a tight bezel fit between the molded automotive interior panel and the mating subcomponent installed in the opening. Alternatively, the method includes utilizing a vacuum wrapped automotive interior panel with the embossing step described above. The invention also provides for an automotive interior panel including a tight bezel fit between the panel and mating subcomponents, formed by the aforementioned methods.
Evans Gregg S.
Finlayson & Singlehurst
Intertec Systems
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