Patent ID: 6896954

Claim:
An automobile trim, comprising: a trim body having a U-shaped cross section and being formed from an ethylene-α-olefin-nonconjugate-diene copolymer rubber; a decorating layer consisting of an outermost automobile trim surface and being formed of an extruded foamed olefin thermoplastic elastomer and having a thickness in a range of from 200 μm to 1000 μm and an expansion ratio not higher than 1.5; and a thermal bonding layer disposed between said decorating layer and said trim body that thermally bonds said decorating layer integrally with said trim body, said thermal bonding layer having a thickness in a range of from 80 μm to 300 μm to an extent not to prevent bending flexibility when said trim is attached to a vehicle body and which is sufficient to hide a ground color of said trim body, said thermal bonding layer being formed of linear low-density polyethylene.