JP2007176363A - Sound absorbing material and sound absorbing seat - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sound absorbing material and a sound absorbing seat capable of improving sound absorbing performance in a wide range of frequency region, especially superior in sound absorbing performance in low-frequent and high-frequency regions. <P>SOLUTION: This sound absorbing material 10 is formed by filling a storage portion 4 surrounded by a member with chip-like elastic foamed material 3. The member is composed of a first member 1 having a recessed portion 1a of roughly rectangular shape in cross section and a sheet-like second member 2. The second member 2 is joined to the opening side of the recessed portion 1a in the first member 1 to form the storage portion 4. Moreover, the plurality of sound absorbing materials 10 are arranged on a plane to form a sound absorbing sheet 20. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a sound-absorbing material and a sound-absorbing sheet that are mounted on the inside of a car door, for example.

  Conventionally, various sound insulation measures have been taken on the inner side of an automobile door for the purpose of preventing noise intrusion or leakage. For example, means for adhering felt or urethane to the back surface of an interior door trim attached to the inner side of the door inner panel, or adhering a urethane molded product to the door inner panel has been devised.

Also, a sound insulating sheet 100 as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 is attached between the door inner panel and the interior door trim.
FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view showing a mounting state of the sound insulating sheet 100 according to the conventional example, and FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line CC in FIG.
The sound insulating sheet 100 is attached between a door inner panel 200 of an automobile and an interior door trim 300 so as to cover part or all of the inside of the door inner panel 200. Further, the sound insulating sheet 100 is composed of an open cell layer 101 (a foam in which adjacent open cells communicated with continuous bubbles) and a closed cell layer 102 (a foam in which countless closed cells are scattered), Each is formed of a synthetic rubber such as EPDM (ethylene / propylene / diene copolymer rubber).

Patent Document 1 discloses an invention for an interior part in which an intermediate member having a sound absorbing effect is sandwiched between inorganic reinforcing material composite olefin sheets.
Patent Document 2 discloses an invention relating to a soundproof material in which a large number of holes are formed in a coating layer made of a synthetic resin film and pulverized rubber is filled therein.
Patent Document 3 discloses an invention relating to a sound absorbing structure in which a chip-like foam is filled in a breathable container.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-80982 JP-A-8-270432 JP 2005-316353 A

However, as shown in FIG. 10, the conventional sound-insulating sheet 100 is superior in sound absorption performance in a frequency region around 3000 Hz, compared with a fiber-based sound absorbing material and a urethane foam having a completely open cell layer, but the surface skin. The sound absorption performance in the low frequency region and the high frequency region is inferior due to the influence of the layers and closed cells.
In FIG. 10, “(1) NI sheet” is the sound insulating sheet 100 according to the conventional example. “(2) Thinsulate” is a product name manufactured by Sumitomo 3M, “(3) Chip felt” is urethane chip felt, “(4) Pet felt” is resin felt, and each has a specific gravity of 0. It is a fiber type sound absorbing material of about .02. “(5) Soft urethane” is a sponge-like foam which is foamed with a polyol and polyisocyanate as the main components and has a specific gravity of about 0.02. Note that “t” in parentheses means the thickness (mm).

Further, in the invention described in Patent Document 1, although there is an effect such as weight reduction of parts, the sound absorbing performance is not clear.
Further, in the invention described in Patent Document 2, there is a description that a soundproof material having a complicated shape can be easily manufactured and can cope with various frequency levels. It is not clear about.
Moreover, in the invention described in Patent Document 3, the sound absorption performance in the low frequency region is not sufficient.

  Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the above-described conventional problems, and provides a sound absorbing material and a sound absorbing sheet that improve sound absorbing performance in a wide frequency range, and that are particularly excellent in sound absorbing performance in a low frequency range and a high frequency range. Is.

  In order to solve the above-described conventional problems, the sound absorbing material of the invention according to claim 1 is a sound absorbing material (10) in which a housing portion (4) surrounded by members is filled with a chip-like elastic foam (3). ), The member is composed of a first member (1) having a recess (1a) and a sheet-like second member (2), one or both of which have air permeability, The housing member (4) is formed by joining the second member (2) to the opening side of the recess (1a) of the first member (1).

  The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in the invention according to claim 1, the recess (1a) has a substantially rectangular cross section.

  The invention according to claim 3 is the invention according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first member (1) is a non-woven fabric that can be thermoformed.

  The invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the second member (2) is a sheet-like member made of a material containing polyethylene. It is characterized by.

  A sound-absorbing sheet according to a fifth aspect is characterized in that a plurality of sound-absorbing materials (10) according to any one of the first to fourth aspects are arranged on a plane.

The invention according to claim 6 is the invention according to claim 5, characterized in that the plurality of the sound absorbing materials (10) arranged in the same shape and size are regularly arranged. And
Here, the term “regular” means that the intervals between adjacent sound absorbing materials (10) are all equal.

  The symbols in parentheses indicate the best mode for carrying out the invention and the corresponding elements or the corresponding matters described in the drawings.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the concave portion is provided in the first member, and the sheet-like second member is joined to the opening side of the concave portion, so that the first member and the second member are surrounded. The accommodating portion can be easily formed.
One or both of the first member and the second member have air permeability, and the formed accommodating portion is filled with the chip-like elastic foam, so that noise can be introduced into the accommodating portion through the air permeable member. The energy can be guided and the energy of the guided noise can be absorbed by the elastic foam.
Furthermore, since the sound absorption performance can be adjusted by adjusting the particle size, thickness, specific gravity of the elastic foam to be filled, and the air permeability of the air permeable member to be used, the sound absorption performance in a wide frequency range can be improved. The sound absorption performance in the frequency region and the high frequency region can be improved.

  According to the second aspect of the invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect of the invention, since the concave portion of the first member has a substantially rectangular cross section, the surface area of the breathable member surrounding the accommodating portion And a sound absorbing effect from the side surface can be imparted, and more noise energy can be introduced into the accommodating portion to improve the sound absorbing performance.

  According to the invention described in claim 3, in addition to the effects of the invention described in claim 1 or 2, the first member is a non-woven fabric that can be thermoformed. It can be easily formed into an arbitrary shape.

According to the invention described in claim 4, in addition to the operational effects of the invention described in any one of claims 1 to 3, the second member is a sheet-like member made of a material containing polyethylene. Therefore, it can be easily joined to the first member by thermal welding.
Moreover, it can be attached by heat welding to automobile interior parts made of PP material or the like, and no adhesive or adhesive tape is required.

  Further, according to the invention described in claim 5, since a plurality of the sound absorbing materials according to any one of claims 1 to 4 are arranged on a plane to form a sound absorbing sheet, the same area is provided. Compared to forming a sound absorbing sheet with a single sound absorbing material (single housing part), the elastic foam to be filled is prevented from being biased to suppress variation in sound absorbing performance, and the surface area of the breathable member is increased to absorb sound. Performance can be increased.

  According to the invention described in claim 6, in addition to the operational effects of the invention described in claim 5, a plurality of sound absorbing materials having the same shape and size are regularly arranged. The variation in the sound absorbing performance can be further suppressed, and uniform sound absorbing performance can be provided on the plane of the sound absorbing sheet. And the sound-absorbing sheet is formed in a wide width, and can be processed into a necessary size according to the mounting location.

  Next, a sound absorbing material according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a sound-absorbing material 10 according to Embodiment 1, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA in FIG.

The sound absorbing material 10 according to the first embodiment is formed by joining the first member 1 and the second member 2.
The first member 1 has a cylindrical recess 1a with a substantially rectangular cross section, and is positioned so that the opening of the recess 1a faces downward. On the lower side of the first member 1 (the opening side of the recess 1a), the sheet-like second member 2 is positioned so as to close the opening of the recess 1a. And the contact part 5 of the 1st member 1 and the 2nd member 2 is joined, and the cylindrical accommodating part 4 is formed in cross-sectional substantially rectangular shape.

It is preferable that one or both of the first member 1 and the second member 2 have air permeability. The material having air permeability is not particularly limited as long as it has air permeability such as a plastic sheet having a hole, but a nonwoven fabric may be used from the viewpoint of weight reduction.
In this embodiment, the 1st member 1 is made into a breathable member, and the nonwoven fabric which can be thermoformed is used as the material from the ease of the process of the recessed part 1a. Thereby, the recessed part 1a can be processed into arbitrary shapes with a metal mold | die.
Moreover, the 2nd member 2 uses the sheet-like member which consists of a material containing polyethylene from the ease of joining to the 1st member 1, attachment to the interior component for motor vehicles, etc. Thereby, joining of the contact part 5 of the 1st member 1 and the 2nd member 2 can be performed by heat welding. Moreover, the attachment to the automotive interior parts etc. which were formed with PP material etc. can also be performed by heat welding.

Moreover, the nonwoven fabric used for the 1st member 1 is 30-300 cc / cm < ² > -sec, the thickness of 0.1-1.0 mm, and the time of heating by JIS L1906 "General long fiber nonwoven fabric testing method" Frazier method Those having an elongation of (120 ° C.) of 150 to 300% are preferred.

  The first member 1 or the second member 2 may be made of a non-breathable material such as a rubber sheet or a canvas sheet to improve water tightness.

Inside the accommodating portion 4 surrounded by the first member 1 and the second member 2, a chip-like elastic foam 3 is filled.
The elastic foam 3 is preferably a foam of rubber or resin such as EPDM having a particle size of 0.5 to 5 mm and a specific gravity of 0.1 to 0.8 g / cm ³ . Here, the chip shape is not limited.
The elastic foam 3 can be used in the form of chips by pulverizing the end material of an extruded sound insulation sheet made of sponge such as EPDM, and can also be expected to reduce waste.
Moreover, it is also possible to mix and use what differs in a particle size and specific gravity to the elastic foam 3 to fill.

When noise energy hits the sound absorbing material 10, the sound absorbing material 10 is guided to the housing portion 4 through the first member 1 made of nonwoven fabric. At this time, since the accommodating portion 4 has a cylindrical shape, noise energy is absorbed from all of the upper surface and side surfaces of the cylinder.
And the energy of the noise guide | induced in the accommodating part 4 is absorbed by the filled elastic foam 3. FIG.

According to the sound absorbing material 10 according to the first embodiment, the first member 1 is provided with the recess 1a, and the sheet-like second member 2 is joined to the opening side of the recess 1a. The accommodating portion 4 surrounded by the two members 2) can be easily formed.
And since the 1st member 1 has air permeability and fills the formed accommodating part 1a with the chip-like elastic foam 3, it is possible to introduce noise energy into the accommodating part 4 through the air-permeable member. At the same time, the energy of the guided noise can be absorbed by the elastic foam 3.
Furthermore, since the sound absorption performance can be adjusted by the particle size, thickness, specific gravity of the elastic foam 3 to be filled and the air permeability of the air permeable member to be used, the sound absorption performance in a wide frequency range is improved. The sound absorption performance in the low frequency region and the high frequency region can be improved.

  Moreover, since the recessed part 1a of the 1st member 1 is a cross-sectional substantially rectangular shape, the surface area of the air permeable member surrounding the accommodating part 4 can be increased, the sound absorption effect from a side surface can be provided, and there are many in the accommodating part 4 inside. The sound absorption performance can be improved by guiding the energy of noise.

  Moreover, since the 1st member 1 is a thermoformable nonwoven fabric, the recessed part 1a can be easily shape | molded by a metal mold | die etc. in arbitrary shapes.

Further, since the second member 2 is a sheet-like member made of a material containing polyethylene, it can be easily joined to the first member 1 by heat welding. Further, adhesion, adhesion, stitching, and joining by stapler (registered trademark) may be used.
Moreover, it can be attached by heat welding to automobile interior parts made of PP material or the like, and no adhesive or adhesive tape is required.

In FIG. 3, the measurement result of the sound absorption performance by the sound-absorbing material 10 according to Embodiment 1 is shown.
In this measurement, the particle diameter (chip particle diameter) of the elastic foam 3 is divided into three groups of 3 to 5 mm, 1 to 2 mm, and 0.5 to 1 mm. The thickness t was measured for 10 mm, 15 mm, and 20 mm.
The sound absorption rate (normal incidence sound absorption rate) was measured using a B tube (capillary tube) according to JIS A 1405. In addition, a normal incidence sound absorption measurement system (B & K 4206) was used as a measuring device.

As shown in the measurement result of FIG. 3, the smaller the particle size of the elastic foam 3, the better the sound absorbing performance in any frequency region. For the same particle size, the smaller the thickness t of the elastic foam 3 is, the more the sound absorption coefficient peak exists in the high frequency region.
In any case, the sound absorption performance in the low frequency region near 1000 Hz and the high frequency region near 5000 Hz is improved while maintaining the sound absorption performance in the frequency region around 3000 Hz, and the disadvantage of the sound insulating sheet 100 according to the conventional example is improved. It is a result to supplement.

  Next, a sound absorbing sheet according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the sound absorbing sheet 20 according to the second embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB in FIG.

The sound absorbing sheet 20 according to the second embodiment is formed by arranging a plurality of sound absorbing materials 10 according to the first embodiment on a plane.
In the present embodiment, the first member 1 has a plurality of concave portions 1a having a substantially rectangular cross section and a cylindrical shape, and is positioned such that the openings of the plurality of concave portions 1a face downward. A sheet-like second member is positioned below the first member 1 (on the opening side of the recess 1a) so as to block the openings of the plurality of recesses 1a. And the contact part 5 of the 1st member 1 and the 2nd member 2 is joined, and the some accommodating part 4 of the column shape with a substantially rectangular cross section is formed.
Further, the inside of the plurality of accommodating portions 4 is filled with a chip-like elastic foam 3.

In the sound-absorbing sheet 20, the plurality of sound-absorbing materials 10 arranged on a plane are all the same in shape and size and regularly arranged.
Here, “regular” means that the intervals between adjacent sound absorbing materials 10 are all equal.
However, sound absorbing materials having different shapes and sizes may be arranged or irregularly arranged depending on the mounting location of the sound absorbing sheet.

  FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the sound absorbing sheet 20 is attached to an automobile interior part 6 made of PP material or the like. At this time, since the second member 2 is formed of a material containing polyethylene, the contact portion 7 between the second member 2 and the automobile interior part 6 can be joined by thermal welding.

  According to the sound absorbing sheet 20 according to the second embodiment, since a plurality of the sound absorbing materials 10 are arranged on the plane to form the sound absorbing sheet 20, the sound absorbing sheets having the same width are formed by one sound absorbing material (one accommodating portion). Compared with the formation, it is possible to prevent the unevenness of the elastic foam 3 to be filled and suppress the variation in the sound absorption performance, and increase the surface area of the air-permeable member to improve the sound absorption performance.

  Further, since a plurality of sound absorbing materials 10 having the same shape and size are regularly arranged, variation in sound absorbing performance of the sound absorbing sheet 20 is further suppressed, and uniform sound absorbing performance is provided on the plane of the sound absorbing sheet 20. Can be made. And the sound-absorbing sheet | seat 20 is formed wide, and can be processed into a required magnitude | size suitably according to a mounting location.

In Embodiment 1 and Embodiment 2 described above, the shape of the housing portion is a columnar shape with a substantially rectangular cross section, but the shape of the housing portion is not limited to this.
For example, as in the sound absorbing sheet 40 shown in FIG. 7, a plurality of sound absorbing materials 30 having a rectangular cross section and a triangular prism shaped storage portion may be arranged.
Furthermore, the cross section of the accommodating portion is not limited to a substantially rectangular shape, and may be another cross sectional shape such as a semicircular shape or a trapezoidal shape.

  In addition, although the said embodiment demonstrated the case where a sound-absorbing material and a sound-absorbing sheet | seat were attached and used for the door of a motor vehicle, it is applicable not only to this but other vehicles, such as a train and an airplane, a building, etc. it can.

It is a perspective view which shows the sound-absorbing material which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. 5 is a graph showing measurement results of sound absorbing performance by the sound absorbing material according to Embodiment 1. 6 is a perspective view showing a sound absorbing sheet according to Embodiment 2. FIG. It is BB sectional drawing of FIG. It is sectional drawing which shows the state which attached the sound absorption sheet which concerns on Embodiment 2 to the interior component for motor vehicles. It is a perspective view which shows the sound absorption sheet which concerns on other embodiment. It is a disassembled perspective view which shows the attachment state of the sound insulation sheet which concerns on a prior art example. It is CC sectional drawing of FIG. It is a graph which shows the sound absorption rate of the sheet | seat which consists of a sound-insulating sheet | seat which concerns on a prior art example, and another material.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 1st member 1a Recessed part 2 2nd member 3 Elastic foam 4 Storage part 5 Contact part 6 Car interior part 7 Contact part 10 Sound absorbing material 20 Sound absorbing sheet 30 Sound absorbing material 40 Sound absorbing sheet 100 Sound insulating sheet 200 Door inner panel 300 Door trim for interior

Claims (6)

In a sound absorbing material formed by filling a chip-like elastic foam in a housing part surrounded by members,
The member includes a first member having a concave portion and a sheet-like second member, and either one or both of them has air permeability, and the first member has an opening on the opening side of the concave portion. A sound-absorbing material, wherein the housing part is formed by joining a second member.   The sound absorbing material according to claim 1, wherein the recess has a substantially rectangular cross section.   The sound absorbing material according to claim 1, wherein the first member is a thermoformable nonwoven fabric.   The sound absorbing material according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the second member is a sheet-like member made of a material containing polyethylene.   A sound-absorbing sheet comprising a plurality of the sound-absorbing materials according to claim 1 arranged on a plane. The sound-absorbing sheet according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of sound-absorbing materials having the same shape and size are regularly arranged.

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