摘要 |
A process of manufacturing a hand grip assembly for a vehicle such as a motorcycle, including the steps of producing a flexible sleeve (22) that defines an interior, inserting the flexible sleeve (22) into a mold (60) configured to hold the flexible sleeve (22), injecting moldable material (20) into the interior of the flexible sleeve (22), and solidifying the moldable material (20) and adhering the moldable material (20) to the flexible sleeve (22) to thereby form the hand grip assembly. The process preferably results in handgrip assembly wherein the interior surface of the flexible sleeve (22) is embedded into the moldable material (20). The flexible sleeve (22) is made of a flexible fabric such as leather and the resilient material (20) is a thermoplastic elastomer. |