Patent ID: 8337981
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: B29C,B60R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A trim component which has a visible face which is formed by a skin, the component comprising: a skin which is arranged on a foam of plastics material, the foam being connected to the skin by means of a continuous connection layer which is formed spontaneously at the skin/foam interface during the operation for foaming the fluid plastics material in contact with the skin, the skin having a preferential breakage device which comprises at least one notch which opens via an opening at the side opposite the visible face, wherein, substantially in the whole of the zone in which the notch is located, the connection layer is in contact only with the skin and the foam and, in the region of the notch and in the direction of the thickness of the skin, the connection layer is arranged on the opening with a thickness being less than the depth of the notch, wherein the opening of the notch at the face of the skin has a width which is at the most 0.2 and 5 times the thickness of the connection layer, the notch has its smallest width at the opening or in the region of the opening, the notch being substantially free of the fluid plastics material penetrating therein.