Patent ID: 6245694
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: B32B,B60R,D06M,H01B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An automotive cargo bed which includes an electrically conductive cargo bedliner in contact with said cargo bed for dissipating static electrical charges, said bedliner comprising:a sheet of thermoplastic material having a technical back side in contact against the automotive cargo bed, and a technical front side opposite said technical back side thereof; andelectrically conductive fibers embedded in the technical back side of the sheet in an amount to render the sheet electrically conductive and to an extent that the fibers are substantially absent from said technical front side of the sheet, whereinsaid fibers are physically surrounded by the thermoplastic material forming the technical back side of the sheet such that portions of the fibers remain exposed at said technical back side of the sheet to make contact with the automotive cargo bed; and whereinsaid electrically conductive fibers include a filamentary polymeric substrate with electrically conductive particles suffused in a peripheral annular region thereof.