US 12,252,076 B2
Vehicular interior component
Ryo Yamane, Aichi-ken (JP); Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Aichi-ken (JP); and Mari Azumi, Gifu-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP); and TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., Gifu-ken (JP)
Appl. No. 17/908,022
Filed by TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP); and TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., Gifu-ken (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 3, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/008172
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/182234, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-041559 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0091162 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 13/02 (2006.01); B60J 5/04 (2006.01); B60R 16/06 (2006.01); E05B 85/12 (2014.01)
CPC B60R 13/0243 (2013.01) [B60J 5/0469 (2013.01); B60R 16/06 (2013.01); E05B 85/12 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular interior component to be mounted on a vehicular interior surface of a metal vehicle body panel of a vehicle body, the vehicular compartment interior surface facing a vehicular component interior side, the vehicular interior component comprising:
an interior component body having a plate shape as a whole; and
a mounting member mounted on the interior component body and having a contact surface that is to be touched by an occupant's hand, the mounting member including
a base member including a body that is to be held by the occupant and a mounting portion extending from the body and being to be fixed to the vehicle body panel, and
an electrically conductive layer made of electrically conductive elastomer and disposed on the base member, the electrically conductive layer including a contact surface portion configured as the contact surface, at least one contact projection projecting from the base member toward the vehicle body panel, and a connecting portion connecting the contact surface portion and the at least one contact projection, wherein
when the vehicular interior component is mounted on the vehicle body panel, a projecting end of the contact projection is contacted with the vehicular compartment interior side surface of the vehicle body panel with being elastically deformed, and
the projecting end of the contact projection includes contact pieces and the contact pieces are in contact with the vehicle body panel with being elastically deformed independently from each other.