Benecke-kaliko Ag

Optatech Corporation

Benecke-kalico Ag

Contitech Elastomer-beschichtungen Gmbh

Andreas Gerken

Jürgen Bühring

Juergen Buehring

Michael Mach

Oliver Stahlhut

Claus Zürbig

Hans Kricheldorf

Lothar Bargiel

Jens Löschner

Günter Leo Prömpers

Steffen Wietzke

Roland Freudenmann

Dorthe Wittje

Günter PRÖMPERS

Carolin Vogt

Jürgen Buehring

Dirk Kaschub

Bettina Lohre

Uwe Gelszinnus

Stefan Kisser

Günter Prömpers

Michael Trylus

Manfred Jahncke

Markus SCHÜLLER

Jürgen BÜHRING

A component with an exterior decorative surface and with signaling or operating elements arranged in the surface or near the surface, in particular an interior trim component of a vehicle, wherein the component comprises a component carrier as supporting structure or substructure and a multilayered film arranged on the exterior thereof, wherein the film comprises a layer composite composed of at least one outer cover layer which is at least partly light-transmissive and is optionally provided with a coating, and at least one further layer which is at least partly light-transmissive and is arranged on the rear side of the cover layer, wherein the layers forming the film consist of a flexible, elastomeric and reversibly deformable polymer, and the component carrier comprises devices which act on the film for the at least regional deformation of the film, i.e. deformation that concerns partial regions of the surface, and also devices for the at least regional transillumination of the film.

Component with a translucent surface with a variable shape

Flexible sheet made of polymer material, preferably a plastics-material sheet provided with a grain structure or embossing, which has functional surface-area regions designed in the form of a switching, sensor or operating element such that the sheet is of multi-layered design at least in the region of the functional surface-area regions, wherein at least one layer made of conductive polymer material is arranged in the functional surface-area regions, wherein the layer made of conductive material is spaced apart, on the rear side, from the visible surface of the sheet and is connected to an electronic control and regulating device, which detects changes in electrical properties of the sheet in the functional surface-area regions and converts these into actuating, switching or control signals.

Sheet with integrated sensor system

A flexible flat structure has a flexible, flat resistance heating element that is connected to electrodes that are spaced apart from one another for supplying electrical current that is pressed on to the resistance heating element by staples or clamps in a force-fit manner and/or a form-fit manner and provides a more flexible connection.

Flexible flat heating element

A thermotropic main-chain liquid crystalline homo- or copolymer forming a liquid crystalline phase and containing an aromatic monomer with functional groups in ortho- or meta-position. The polymer exhibits both isotropic and anisotropic properties. The present invention also provides a method for the preparation of the present polymers as well as a method of increasing the melt-processibility of polyester-based liquid crystalline polymers comprising the step of incorporating into the polymers 1 to 30 mol-% of, e.g., a ortho-substituted monomer with hydroxyl and/or carboxylic groups.

Thermotropic main-chain liquid crystalline polymers and method of increasing the melt processibility of polyester-based liquid crystalline polymers

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Hannover, Germany

Andreas Gerken