An anti-fogging laminate including: a substrate; and an anti-fogging layer on the substrate where a surface of the anti-fogging layer is flat, wherein the anti-fogging layer includes a hydrophilic molecular structure; and wherein the anti-fogging layer has an elastic recovery of 90% or more, a coefficient of dynamic friction of 0.40 or less, and an average thickness of 4 m or more.

A molding system 10 for manufacturing a molded article Q by integrally molding a sheet-shaped insert member S and a molding material R, the molding system comprising: a sheet supply part 20 configured to supply the insert member S; a sheet heating part 30 configured to heat the insert member S; a molding apparatus 100 configured to form the molded article Q by integrally molding the insert member S and the molding material R; an ejector 200 including a delivery position 222 and configured to transfer the insert member S between the sheet heating part 30 and the molding apparatus 100 and to eject and transfer the molded article Q from the molding apparatus; and a transfer robot configured to transfer the insert member S or the molded article Q between the sheet supply part 20 and the ejector.

The invention proposes a device for manufacture of a composite piece, which exhibits a shaped plate and at least one plastic functional piece molded on to the shaped plate. The device has a heater for heating a plate blank; a shaping tool with at least two shaping elements and for admitting and shaping of the plate blank, to bring the plate blank into a desired shape and thus to manufacture the shaped plate; means for insertion of a shaped mass into the shaping tool for molding the plastic functional piece onto the shaped plate in the shaping tool to manufacture the composite piece, wherein the shaping tool is so configured that after the shaping of the plate blank, at least one cavity remains, in which the plastic functional piece is shaped; and a closing unit for opening and closing the shaping tool; wherein the heater is integrated into the closing unit and the closing unit is furnished to open and close the heater.

A molding system 10 for manufacturing a molded article Q by integrally molding a sheet-shaped insert member S and a molding material R, the molding system comprising: a sheet supply part 20 configured to supply the insert member S; a sheet heating part 30 configured to heat the insert member S; a molding apparatus 100 configured to form the molded article Q by integrally molding the insert member S and the molding material R; an ejector 200 including a delivery position 222 and configured to transfer the insert member S between the sheet heating part 30 and the molding apparatus 100 and to eject and transfer the molded article Q from the molding apparatus; and a transfer robot configured to transfer the insert member S or the molded article Q between the sheet supply part 20 and the ejector.

A method is provided for producing an injection-molded component with an inlay made of an organo sheet, including the following steps: providing a not yet consolidated endless organo sheet wound on a roll; pulling away a leading section of the endless organo sheet from the roll and introducing the section into a heating unit; heating the section to a temperature above the molding temperature; introducing the heated section into an opened injection mold, without separating the heated section from the endless organo sheet, such that a further section of the endless organo sheet is automatically drawn from the roll and introduced into the heating unit; closing the injection mold and simultaneously severing the heated section from the endless organo sheet; and producing the injection-molded component by molding the severed section and then insert molding or overmolding of the molded section.

An embodiment method of manufacturing an interior component for a vehicle using a real material includes bonding a plurality of laminated printed layers on a rear surface of the real material, injection-molding an injection-molded product that processes a shape by putting the real material into a molding mold and laminating the real material on the injection-molded product injection-molded in a shape corresponding to the processed shape of the real material, forming a light-transmitting part that processes a symbol part on a front surface of the real material and forming a light-transmitting part protruding in a shape of the symbol part, and mounting a light source unit on the injection-molded product, the light source unit configured to be selectively lighted through the light-transmitting part in response to detecting a change in a capacitance from the front surface of the real material.

A molding system 10 for manufacturing a molded article Q by integrally molding a sheet-shaped insert member S and a molding material R, the molding system comprising: a sheet supply part 20 configured to supply the insert member S; a sheet heating part 30 configured to heat the insert member S; a molding apparatus 100 configured to form the molded article Q by integrally molding the insert member S and the molding material R; an ejector 200 including a delivery position 222 and configured to transfer the insert member S between the sheet heating part 30 and the molding apparatus 100 and to eject and transfer the molded article Q from the molding apparatus; and a transfer robot configured to transfer the insert member S or the molded article Q between the sheet supply part 20 and the ejector.

A mold for high stretching of an in-mold decorative film, comprising an upper base, a stationary mold, a film pressing frame, a movable mold and a lower base sequentially arranged from top to bottom. The film pressing frame can move up and down; a film to be stretched is placed between the film pressing frame and the stationary mold; a cavity block is fixed in the stationary mold, the lower surface of the cavity block is provided with air holes, and the upper surface is provided with a vacuum air pumping cavity communicated with the air holes; a core block is fixed in the movable mold, and a core ejection movable block is arranged in the core block; the core ejection movable block and the movable mold are provided with a heated air inlet channel and an air outlet channel which are communicated with the outside.

A composite molded article is manufactured in such a manner that a molding mold that forms a molding space by mold closing and has a weir portion projecting into the molding space is opened, a flat plate-like first member that is softened under heating is arranged in a part of a portion where the molding space is formed, the stereoscopic first molded portion is formed with mold closing, simultaneously an injected molten resin is filled in a remaining portion of the molding space around the first member outside the weir portion in a state that the weir portion is made to abut against a thin portion provided at a peripheral edge of the first molded portion, and the second molding portion joined to the first molding portion is formed by hardening molten resin after the resin is caused to contact the first molded portion.

A method of manufacturing molded parts having back injection molded features is operable to make decorative panels for vehicle applications. A single workstation can heat a substrate, locate the heated substrate in a tool, load a cover stock on the substrate while in the tool, insert a buffer layer over the cover stock, close the tool, inject a resin to form ribbing, clip towers, locators, and/or attachment features, cool the part, and then open the tool to eject the completed part. The enhanced manufacturing processes reduces tooling cost and inherent energy usage.