Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Bernhard Pfeiffer

Detlef H Skaletz

Joachim Heydweiller

Anne Texier

Horst Heckel

Andreas Lucke

Josefa Risch

This invention relates to an electrically conductive shaped article made from thermoplastic materials which are reinforced with glass and steel fibers wherein said fibers are incorporated into the thermoplastic material by pultrusion. The amount of glass fibers incorporated into the thermoplastic material is such that the specific conductivity is at least 10% greater than in a shaped article in which the glass fibers are replaced by thermoplastic material. The shaped article can be used for shielding an article from electromagnetic radiation.

Electrically conductive shaped articles

The invention relates to a material for producing electrically conducting connections in thermoplastic moldings, wherein the material contains a thermoplastic containing 0.5 to 30% by volume of conductive fibers having a length of 5 to 20 mm and a diameter of 5 to 100 .mu.m and has a volume resistivity of less than 1 ohm.cm.

Material for producing electrically conducting connections in

To prepare a glass fiber-reinforced composite material, a glass fiber strand is drawn through an agitated aqueous powder dispersion of a coupling agent over a deflection body, the water is removed, the powder is melted onto the glass fiber strand and the pretreated fiber strand is subsequently impregnated with polyolefins by means of melt pultrusion.

Process for making glass fiber-reinforced composite material

The invention relates to electrically conductive thermoplastic composite materials which have specific volume resistances of less than 10.sup.9 ohm cm and comprise 0.1 to 70% by volume of electrically conductive fibers impregnated with a thermoplastic elastomer, to a process for their preparation and to their use.

Electrically conductive thermoplastic composite materials and a process

To produce fiber-reinforced composites, a continuous fiber strand is pulled through an agitated aqueous thermoplastic powder dispersion via deflectors. Following removal of the water phase the thermoplastic powder is heated and melted onto the fibers. Finally the fiber strand is impregnated with a thermoplastic melt by melt pultrusion.

Production of fiber-reinforced composites by pultrusion with

An electrically conducting molding comprises thermoplastic material which is reinforced with metal fibers. A metal covering is connected to the molding by three-cornered prongs and serves as an electric contact.

Molding with electrical contact

A resistance heating element comprises a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material having 1-60% by weight of glass fibers and having 1-20, preferably 5-15% by weight of steel fibers. The heating element can be prepared from thermoplastic granules which are filled with glass fibers and steel fibers and which have been obtained by melt pultrusion of continuous fiber strands and cutting to granule length.

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Kelkheim, Germany

Bernhard Pfeiffer