The present interior component includes a plate-shaped base material to be fastened to the base member and a skin material for covering the front surface of the base material. The skin material has a woven fabric in which an optical fiber is woven as a constituent yarn, the skin material is provided with a folded portion turned back to the back surface of the base material while being folded into a plurality of sheets, and a clip body for clipping the folded portion is provided on the back surface of the base material.

The present invention provides a sheet structure comprising a carrier layer and a foamed cover layer which contains polyvinyl chloride, lignocellulosic based components and hollow microspheres, and a method for producing the sheet structure. The sheet structure can be used as an artificial leather, e.g. for flexible automotive interiors.

A method for manufacturing a vehicle muffler includes: forming a tubular body (6; 91, 92) from a nonwoven fabric (2; 2A, 2B) composed of inorganic fibers (11) each being in a filament form; inserting and installing the tubular body (6) as a sound-absorbing material into a space (S) between an inner pipe (72; 81) and an outer pipe (71; 821, 822) of an inner-outer double pipe constituting a vehicle muffler. The tubular body (6) may be obtained by applying a binder (3) to one surface (2a) of the nonwoven fabric (2), then rolling the nonwoven fabric (2) into a tubular shape with the surface (2a) having the binder (3) applied thereto facing inward, infiltrating additional binder (3) into an outer peripheral surface of the tubular-shaped nonwoven fabric (2), and then heating the tubular-shaped nonwoven fabric (2) to a predetermined temperature to harden the binder (3).

A device for manufacturing a weave, including a winder for reeling the manufactured weave to a rotating reel, wire spools arranged to release longitudinal wires to said winder, a wire spool carrier comprising a wheel and a slit extending through the wheel from a centre of the wire spool carrier to the circumference, an additional wire spool releasably attached to the wire spool carrier and arranged to release a crossing wire, and an actuator configured to move the wire spool carrier between the longitudinal wires such that the additional wire spool in turns moves to each longitudinal wire to a position where the respective longitudinal wire is located in said slit at which stage the wheel rotates around said respective longitudinal wire before moving towards a following longitudinal wire in such way that a predetermined path of the crossing wire from the additional wire spool forms the weave with the longitudinal wires from the wire spools.

A ribbon yarn having an upper side and a lower side, filaments and at least one binder material, the binder material binding the filaments to one another and the upper side and/or the lower side of the ribbon yarn having a pressure-sensitive adhesive. The filaments of the ribbon yarn can consist only of one material or of different materials and they can be arranged in one layer or in multiple layers. The pressure-sensitive adhesive can be applied on the upper side and/or lower side of the ribbon yarn or can be a constituent of the binder material.

Systems and methods are provided for braiding Metal Matrix composite (MMC) tape. One method includes drawing multiple lanes of MMC tape, comprising a matrix of metal reinforced by fibers, from bobbins arranged around a mandrel. The method also includes braiding the multiple lanes to form a preform at the mandrel for an MMC part and consolidating the preform via application of heat and pressure.

A braided textile sleeve having a flexible, seamless, reflective tubular wall and method of construction thereof are provided. The tubular wall extends along a longitudinal axis between opposite open ends and includes a first set of yarns and a second set of yarns braided with one another. The first and second yarns are provided as different types of yarns from one another and are braided in opposite helical directions with one another. The tubular wall includes a third set of yarns captured between the first and second sets of yarns, with the third set of yarns extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The sleeve includes a reflective outer layer fixed to an outer surface of the braided yarns.

A protective braided sleeve and method of construction are provided. The braided sleeve includes a seamless, circumferentially continuous, tubular wall extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The wall includes a plurality of yarns braided with one another. At least one of the yarns is activatable to lock the plurality of yarns in fixed relation with one another to inhibit the expansion of the wall.

Provided is a fabric for producing a foam part, comprising: a non-woven fabric sheet comprising: a first metallic pattern printed on a first surface of the non-woven fabric sheet; wherein the first metallic pattern comprises a plurality of pattern elements having a predetermined optimal distance therebetween; wherein the metallic pattern comprises a print paste and a metallic powder; wherein the non-woven fabric sheet is structured to be positioned in a mold for producing the foam part such that the first metallic pattern of the non-woven fabric sheet is operatively coupled with a magnet element of a first mold half of the mold.

A method for manufacturing a vehicle muffler includes: forming a tubular body (6; 91, 92) from a nonwoven fabric (2; 2A, 2B) composed of inorganic fibers (11) each being in a filament form; inserting and installing the tubular body (6) as a sound-absorbing material into a space (S) between an inner pipe (72; 81) and an outer pipe (71; 821, 822) of an inner-outer double pipe constituting a vehicle muffler. The tubular body (6) may be obtained by applying a binder (3) to one surface (2a) of the nonwoven fabric (2), then rolling the nonwoven fabric (2) into a tubular shape with the surface (2a) having the binder (3) applied thereto facing inward, infiltrating additional binder (3) into an outer peripheral surface of the tubular-shaped nonwoven fabric (2), and then heating the tubular-shaped nonwoven fabric (2) to a predetermined temperature to harden the binder (3).