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(11) | EP 1 844 927 A8 |
(12) | CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Lightweight thermoplastic sheets including reinforcing skins |
(57) A multi-layered fiber reinforced sheet (10) for automotive vehicle interior structural
components includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a permeable fiber reinforced thermoplastic
core layer (12) having a first surface (14) and a second surface (16). The core layer
includes a plurality of reinforcing fibers bonded together with a thermoplastic resin,
and has a density of about 0.1 gm/cc to about 1.8 gm/cc. The multi-layered fiber reinforced
sheet also includes at least one first reinforcing skin (18) applied to the first
surface of the core layer, and at least one second reinforcing skin (20) applied to
the second surface of the core layer. Each first and second reinforcing skin includes
a matrix of reinforcing fibers and a thermoplastic resin wherein the matrix of reinforcing
fibers applied to the first surface are arranged in a bi-directional orientation and
the matrix of reinforcing fibers applied to the second surface are arranged in a bi-directional
orientation.
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