Allen Patricia Ray

US Patent:

62456946, Jun 12, 2001

Filed:

Oct 1, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/942357

Inventors:

Grover L. Davenport - Asheville NC
Wayne S. Stanko - Asheville NC
Allen Ray - Atlanta GA
Everett C. Cox - Anderson SC
Michael A. Davis - Asheville NC
Gary M. Carnes - Fletcher NC

Assignee:

Shakespeare Conductive Fibers, LLC - Columbia SC

International Classification:

B32B 3300
B32B 2704

US Classification:

442110

Abstract:

Automotive bedliners (e. g. , for pickup trucks) are formed from a sheet of thermoplastic material having electrically conductive fibers embedded in a surface thereof in an amount sufficient to render said sheet electrically conductive. The bedliners are most preferably formed of a thermoplastic material (e. g. , a polyolefin, such a polyethylene and/or polypropylene) having a matrix of electrically conductive fibers physically embedded in at least one side thereof. By physically embedding the conductive fibers in a surface of the bedliner, the fibers are capable of establishing electrical continuity between the bedliner and the pickup truck bed thereby effectively dissipating static electrical charges.