Patent ID: 8632716

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a metallic decorative member by using injection molding of injecting molten molding material including metal particles into a cavity formed by a set of molding dies from a plurality of gates provided to the cavity, the method comprising: starting injections of the molten molding material into the cavity from the plurality of gates; and stopping respectively the injections of the molten molding material from the plurality of gates at different times so as to make dynamic pressure of the molten molding material injected from one gate smaller than dynamic pressure of the molten molding material injected from the other gate at a position on which heads of flows of the molten molding material injected from the one and the other gates contact each other so that the metal particles at a contacting portion of the heads of the molten molding material are aligned at a surface of the molten molding material along a direction of movement of the molten molding material, wherein the one gate is closed before the heads of flows of the molten molding material injected from the one and the other gates contact each other, and the gates are arranged to have a distance between one pair of gates being shorter than the distances between the other pairs of gates.