JPH1159285A - Trimming parts for automobile - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To create a comfortable space in a car by showing a design performance not only in the daytime or in a light space but also at night or in a dark place such as a tunnel or the like, and to contribute to increase a demand of trimming parts by showing a new design performance which satisfies an individualizing trend or a leisure sense of users, and also to remove a feeling of fear or uneasiness or the like of a driver against the darkness which is a primary factor of a collision accident in a tunnel. SOLUTION: A luminous base 2, including a luminous pigment phosphorescing in the dark, is formed on the surface of a molding 1, and a printed layer 3, on which a desired design pattern is printed, is formed. Thereby, the pattern on the printed layer 3 is lightened up like a shadow picture and a fantastic light-decorative effect is shown, by the phosphorescence in bright blue or the like emitted from the luminous base 2 in the dark or in a tunnel or the like. Therefore, the inside of the car is illuminated with the phosphorescence or the remained light, and a feeling of fear or uneasiness of a driver against the darkness is removed or moderated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an interior part for an automobile which provides a comfortable living environment for an occupant in the interior of the automobile and ensures safety during traveling.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Automotive interior parts include instrument panels, door trims, pillar trims, glove boxes, under trays, console boxes, armrests, etc., which are durable as parts and easy to manufacture and assemble. In addition to low cost, ease of recycling, etc., there is a demand for the performance of creating a comfortable living space in the vehicle and the performance of ensuring safety during traveling.

[0003] The performance of creating a comfortable living space includes:
Mainly appearance quality (soft or soft-looking, matte or glossy, design performance), high-grade / high-quality performance, personalization orientation, etc., and performance that ensures safety during traveling There is known an impact energy absorbing property that protects an occupant by being appropriately deformed in a collision accident.

[0004] By the way, recent interior parts can be made of plastics which can be reduced in cost due to weight reduction of the vehicle body and good formability, and which can easily be subjected to secondary processing for decorating by printing a pattern such as a grain pattern or a marble pattern on the surface. Molded products are often used, and interior parts with decoration on the surface improve design performance and luxury / high quality performance, and contribute to the creation of a more comfortable living space.

[0005]

However, at night or in a dark place, such as in a tunnel, where the decoration applied to the surface is dark and cannot be visually recognized, it is not possible to exert its precious design performance, etc., and this contributes to the creation of a living space. Can not.

In recent years, wagons, minivans and other R
V-vehicles (multipurpose vehicles for leisure) are at their peak, but their RVs
With respect to the living space of a car, there is a growing demand for not only functionality that is wide and versatile but also individualization that satisfies the sense of leisure.

Further, since interior parts such as an instrument panel, a door trim, and a console box are parts that are not directly related to the driving operation, the performance required for ensuring safety during traveling is limited to collision safety. It was only the shock energy absorption that was ensured, and there was no requirement for interior parts to have an accident prevention performance or the like that would prevent a collision accident.

[0008] However, the driver of the license collection,
A female driver who is unfamiliar with driving enters the tunnel during a bright day and suddenly goes dark in the car,
The fear and unusual tension caused by the darkness,
Due to anxiety caused by the inability to determine the location of the equipment and the like, there was a danger of losing calmness and erroneously operating and causing a collision accident.

Therefore, the present invention can contribute to the creation of a comfortable living space by exhibiting design performance even in dark places such as at night or in a tunnel with respect to interior parts for automatic use.
It demonstrates unprecedented new design performance and can meet the user's personalization orientation, and also eliminates the driver's fear, tension, anxiety, etc. in the tunnel to prevent collision accidents. The technical task is to make it possible to exhibit accident prevention performance that has never existed before.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an automobile interior part according to the present invention has a luminous property containing a luminous pigment which emits phosphorescence in a dark place on the surface of a molded product made of plastic or metal. A light-emitting base is formed, a printing layer on which a pattern for design or decoration is printed is formed on the luminous base, and a clear coat layer for protecting the printing layer is formed on the printing layer. It is characterized by having been done.

According to the present invention, a pattern printed on the surface of a molded product serving as a base material of an interior part is visually recognized in the daytime or in a bright place through a clear coat layer, almost as a printed color, and at night. In a dark place, such as in a tunnel or in a tunnel, it is illuminated by phosphorescence emitted from a luminous base that emits light in the dark, and is visually recognized as a silhouette.

Therefore, the interior parts of the present invention can exhibit design performance both day and night and contribute to the creation of a living space. In particular, the design performance exhibited at night or in a dark place such as in a tunnel can be obtained by printing. The illuminated pattern is illuminated like a shadow picture by phosphorescence to provide a fantastic light decoration effect, and it is possible to sufficiently satisfy the user's leisure feeling and personalization, so that demand is expected to increase.

Further, the interior parts of the present invention prevent the interior of the vehicle from being completely dark due to phosphorescence and afterglow emitted from the luminous base when entering the tunnel, Since the driver can visually recognize the location, the driver can be less afraid or nervous due to the darkness. The driver's anxiety about the driving operation is also reduced, and a collision accident is prevented.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

The interior parts shown in FIG.
A luminous base 2 formed by applying a luminous paint mixed with a luminous pigment that emits phosphorescence in a dark place is formed on the surface of a molded product 1 molded into a predetermined component shape with plastic such as ABS resin. On the luminous base 2, a printing layer 3 is formed by printing a pattern for design or decoration by hydraulic transfer, and then a colorless transparent or colored transparent clear paint is applied thereon and printed. A clear coat layer 4 for protecting the layer 3 is formed.

As the luminescent coating for forming the luminescent base 2, a luminescent clear coating prepared by kneading a luminescent pigment with a coating vehicle having excellent adhesion to the surface of the molded article 1 and blending the mixture is used.

Further, as the luminous pigment, a fired body obtained by mixing and firing strontium oxide, aluminum oxide, boron oxide or a boron compound and europium oxide as an activator is used. A pulverized phosphorescent material having a particle size of 200 mesh or less (manufactured by Chemitech, product numbers CP-05 and CP-10) is used.

This fine powder exhibits a pale yellow-green body color, and exhibits a bright and bright green (CP-05) or blue (CP-10) emission color in a dark place. The blue emission color is a vivid color that can be called tropical blue, and the initial luminance is very bright, 2500 mcd / m ² or more, and the afterglow time is 20 hours or more for green and 30 hours or more for blue. It is extremely long and has the excellent feature of not containing any radioactive material harmful to the human body.

According to the experiment of the present inventor, when this fine powdered phosphorescent material is mixed with a paint vehicle of a clear paint, its pale yellow-green body color completely disappears and disappears. It produced a feeling of transparency almost comparable to the transparency of a PET bottle used as a, and it was confirmed that the luminescent clear paint mixed with this phosphorescent material also had high transparency.

In the case where the pattern of the printing layer 3 is, for example, a grain pattern in which only the grain is printed with a coloring ink, the molded article 1 is previously formed with a brown paint or the like that approximates the ground color of the grain.
In the case of a marble pattern, the surface of the molded article 1 is preliminarily colored with a white paint close to the color of the marble, and then the luminescent clear paint is applied thereto. The luminous base 2 is formed by coating.

As a result, in the daytime or in a bright place where the luminous pigment does not exhibit a luminescent color, the luminous luminous base 2 is almost transparent, so that a wood grain pattern or a marble pattern printed thereon is used. Combined with the base coloring applied to the surface of the molded article 1, respectively, brings out the appearance quality of natural wood or real marble.

On the other hand, in a dark place such as at night or in a tunnel, the luminous base 2 changes to a bright and vivid green or blue luminescent color, and a marble pattern or a grain pattern printed thereon is printed. The design illuminates the design so that it stands out like a silhouette, creating a fantastic exterior quality.

Therefore, the interior part of the present invention can exhibit design performance both day and night to contribute to the creation of a living space, and at the same time, can exhibit different design performance day and night. In particular, since the design performance exhibited in a dark place such as at night or in a tunnel exhibits a fantastic light decoration effect that has not been achieved in the past, it is possible to sufficiently satisfy the user's personalization.

If a cute polka dot pattern or a fun geometric pattern is adopted as the pattern of the printed layer 3, the sense of leisure is increased, and the importance of the interior part for an RV is expected to increase. In particular, a dot pattern of polka dots is formed on a luminous base 2 that emits a brilliant tropical blue with a color ink such as white or black, or a clear ink containing a luminous pigment that emits a green luminous color. The interior parts printed with have a very beautiful appearance at night or in a tunnel, so they are most suitable for RV vehicles.

Also, when entering the daytime tunnel,
The phosphorescent light emitted from the luminous base 2 of the interior components and the afterglow prevent the interior of the vehicle from being darkened, and the location of the interior components can be known. Feeling and tension are alleviated, and the location of various operating devices and equipment can be roughly grasped from the location of the interior parts, so that anxiety about driving operation in the dark is also reduced, causing a collision accident The danger is reduced.

In the interior part shown in FIG. 1, a luminous base 2 is formed by applying a luminous paint mixed with a luminous pigment on the surface of a molded article 1, but the present invention is not limited to this. Instead, as shown in FIG. 2, the molded article 1 may be formed of a plastic mixed with a luminous pigment, so that a luminous base 2 is formed on the surface of the molded article 1.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, a pattern is printed on the back side of a colorless transparent or colored transparent overlay film F which is adhered to protect the surface of the interior part and to impart gloss, and further comprises a phosphorescent pigment. A luminous paint mixed with a luminous paint is adhered or fused to the surface of the molded article 1 so that the phosphorescent luminescent base 2 is formed on the surface of the molded article 1.
And a pattern printing layer 3 and a clear coat layer 4 made of an overlay film F.

The molded article 1 shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 3 is not limited to a molded article made of plastic, but may be made of a metal such as a steel plate.

[0029]

The interior parts for automobiles according to the present invention can exhibit a design performance regardless of day and night to provide a comfortable living environment for occupants both in the daytime and at night, and have different designs between daytime and nighttime. At the same time as exhibiting the performance, at the same time the fantastic light decoration effect is exhibited at night. There are various excellent effects that an accident prevention performance of preventing a collision accident by dispelling fear, tension, anxiety, and the like can be exhibited.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 molded article 2 phosphorescent base 3 printing layer 4 clear coat layer

Claims (4)

[Claims] A luminous base (2) containing a luminous pigment that emits phosphorescence in a dark place is formed on the surface of a molded article (1) made of plastic or metal, and the luminous base (2) of the luminous base (2) is formed. A printed layer (3) on which a pattern for design or decoration is printed is formed thereon, and a clear coat layer (4) for protecting the printed layer (3) is formed on the printed layer (3). Interior parts for automobiles characterized by being made. 2. The luminescent base (2) is formed on the surface of the molded article (1) by molding the molded article (1) with plastic mixed with a luminous pigment. An automotive interior part according to claim 1. 3. The automotive interior part according to claim 1, wherein the luminous base (2) is formed by applying a luminous paint mixed with a luminous pigment to the surface of the molded product (1). . 4. The light-emitting paint is a clear paint, and a phosphorescent pigment mixed in the paint loses its body color when mixed with a paint vehicle to produce a transparent particle size.
The automotive interior part according to claim 3, which is a fine powdery luminous pigment having a size of 0 mesh or less.