Leopold Kostal Gmbh & Co. Kg

Kostal Automobil Elektrik Gmbh & Co. Kg

Recticel Automobilsysteme Gmbh

Berthold Esders

Norbert Bendicks

Jurgen Levers

Hugo De Winter

Thomas Weber

Detlef Kerkmann

Ralf Boebel

Frank Hagen

Matthias Thiel

Thorsten Puehl

Jan Willems

Ralf Bobel

Frank Bläsing

Christian Veltum

Ralf Böbel

Michael Röhr

Bart Broeckaert

Carsten Neumann

Arno Laubrock

Rene Riedel

Gerhard Wiegleb

Martin Sabelus

Ludwig Feldmuller

Stephanie Goehl

Sven De Vis

Thorsten PÜHL

Volker Worobey

An electronic device includes a display carrier, a layer of transparent castable polymer material, and a display. The display carrier has an opening and an outer side. The layer of polymer material is on the outer side of the display carrier. The display is arranged within or beneath the aperture of the display carrier. The outer side of the display carrier and the aperture are flooded or over-molded with the polymer material.

Electronic device having display carrier including display with transparent castable polymer material overlaying the display carrier and the display

A decorative functional component with a transparent partial surface includes a substrate and a flat cover body. The substrate is of a first plastic material and has a recess. The cover body is of a transparent second plastic material and covers the recess of the substrate. The substrate and the cover body are connected together by a loose form-fit connection. The substrate and the cover body and are jointly coated with a low viscosity curing transparent plastic flooded thereon.

Decorative functional component having a transparent partial surface

A functional component having a button function includes a support component, a film, and an electrical switching element. The support component has a recess. The film covers the recess. The electrical switching element is situated below the recess and is actuatable by pressure being exerted on the film in the area above the recess. A ring-shaped or hollow cylindrical body is situated along an inner edge surface of the recess and is in contact with the film.

Functional component having a key function

A housing includes a cup-shaped, plastic housing case; a cooling channel guided in the housing case for fluid cooling of an electric or electronic device situated in an interior of the housing case; and a planar shielding body integrated into the housing case and traversing walls of the housing case for shielding from electromagnetic radiation. The shielding body is a metallic wire cage or trough. The cooling channel is a metallic tubing. The shielding body and the cooling channel are connected to form a frame-like, pre-assembled assembly. The pre-assembled assembly, consisting of the shielding body and the cooling channel, is extrusion-coated with a plastic or encapsulated in a plastic to form the housing case.

Housing for an electric or electronic device

An electric switch module has one or more electric switches arranged on a substrate () of which at least one is designed as a push-pull rocker switch () having an actuator () formed by a projection () that is asymmetrical to its tilting axis (). The module is characterized in that the top side of the substrate (), together with the actuators () of its switches (), is covered by a flexible outer skin () that also covers the projection () that forms the actuator () of the at least one rocker switch ().

Electric switch module

An optoelectronic sensor device for detecting precipitation on an outer surface (41) of a transparent pane (4) of a motor vehicle includes a beam guide element (1) having front and rear opposed parallel surfaces (2, 7) and first and second lateral opposed faces (5, 6). The front surface (2) is coupled to an inner surface (42) of a transparent pane (4) of a motor vehicle. Each of the lateral faces (5, 6) has a reflection region (52, 62). The rear surface (7) has first and second cut-out portions (8, 81) extending therefrom toward the front surface (2). Each of the cut-out portions (8, 81) has a reflective region (11). A beam transmitter (13) is disposed adjacent the rear surface (7) to transmit an infrared beam to the reflective region (11) of the first cut-out portion (8). The reflective region (11) of the first cut-out portion (8) reflects a beam transmitted from the beam transmitter (13) to the reflection region (52) of the first lateral face (5) which reflects the beam to the transparent pane (4). The transparent pane (4) reflects a part of the beam to the reflection region (62) of the second lateral face (6). The part of the beam reflected by the transparent pane (4) is a function of the precipitation on the outer surface (41) of the transparent pane (4). A beam receiver (14) is disposed adjacent the rear surface (7) to receive an infrared beam from the reflective region (62) of the second cut-out portion (81). The second lateral face (62) reflects the part of the beam reflected by the transparent pane (4) to the second cut-out portion (81) which reflects the part of the beam to the beam receiver (14).

Optoelectronic sensor device

An optoelectronic sensor device which has a beam transmitter/beam receiver arrangement associated with a beam guide element. The arrangement is disposed together with a heating device in a common housing. In order to install the heating device in a convenient manner in the surrounding area of the sensor device, the heating device consists of at least one heat conducting plate fixed to a support part, which is allocated with its substantial main areas to the beam guide element and is connected by at least one connection arm to the electrical printed circuit board. The heating device includes at least one heating element, which is disposed in the proximity of a connection arm directly on the electrical printed circuit board. For communicating the necessary heat into the heat conducting plate, the printed circuit board is connected at least in a material-locking manner to an associated connection arm.

Electrically heated optoelectronic device for detecting moisture on a

A sensor device is proposed for detecting the degree of wetting of a transparent pane by precipitation. The sensor device is provided with a beam guide element, which is affixed to the pane with the aid of an optical adhesive, and is acted upon by heat by a heating apparatus. A beam transmitter and a beam receiver are associated each via a lens. Such a sensor device solves the technical problem of guaranteeing optimum conditions for the transfer of heat to the beam guide element. The beam guide element has, in the central region of its rear surface remote from the pane, a recess lying outside of the beam paths. The recess contains a heating apparatus associated via a coupling medium with the beam guide element.

Sensor device

A sensor device which registers the amount of moisture on a transparent screen. The sensor is connected to at least one light conducting element which is provided on one side with at least one beam emitter and on the other side with at least one beam receiver. The light conducting element is provided with a layer of reflecting material to enable multiple reflection of the beam issuing from the beam emitter.

Moisture sensing device

A moisture sensor which registers the amount of moisture from tear-shaped precipitation, particularly on a windshield. The device includes a beam director which is mounted on the windshield by an optical adhesive. The beam director has a beam transmitter on one side and a beam receptor on the other. To ensure an optically perfect attachment of the beam director as an integrated unit to the windshield, there is a parallel relationship between the windshield and the facing surface of the beam director. An optical adhesive is applied to the gap between the windshield and the beam director, and is confined to a particular area.

Moisture sensor

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Schalksmuhle, Germany

Berthold Esders