Patent ID: 7776174

Claim:
A method for forming a vehicular trim component with a mold tool, the method comprising the steps of: providing a substrate onto a mold tool; providing a unit of resilient, expandable, contoured material adjacent the substrate, wherein a surface of the unit of resilient, expandable, contoured material, opposite from the substrate, includes an embellishment, and wherein a surface of the embellishment is elevated from a surface that circumscribes the embellishment; placing a decorative covering adjacent the surface of the unit of resilient, expandable, contoured material that includes the embellishment; bonding the decorative covering to the substrate to define the interior trim component; subsequent to the bonding step, demolding the vehicular trim component to allow the unit of expandably resilient, contoured material to expand such that the embellishment defines a raised relief in the decorative covering.