METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN AUTOMOTIVE TRIM PART

摘要

A method for manufacturing at least a skin (2) for forming a visible front surface (3) of an interior trim part which comprises at least one pre- manufactured insert (6) showing a back face (7) situated at a distance behin d said visible surface. The skin is made by applying at least one flowable ski n material for producing an elastomeric, non-cellular or micro-cellular plasti c skin (2) against at least one surface of a mould (9) and by allowing this flowable skin material to harden. Before uniting any structural backing laye r (4) or intermediate foam layer (5) to the back side of the skin, the pre- manufactured insert is adhesively fixed to said skin material. Use is preferably made as said flowable skin material of a reactive polyurethane mixture. The pre-manufactured insert is preferably adhesively fixed, at leas t partially by the adhesion of said flowable skin material itself before it ha s completely hardened. This method allows to integrate the inserts easier in t he trim parts and to achieve a qualitative visual transition between the plasti c material of the skin and the inserts.