Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Itw Automotive Products Gmbh Co. Kg

Elmar Fries

Zsolt Wilke

Stefan Zöller

Roland Och

Joachim Oberst

Massimo Trisorio

Heiko Lüders

Anna Lisa Contini

Pramod Morale

Klaus Henninger

An interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, includes a housing and an actuating section which is arranged on the housing, wherein the housing and/or the actuating section have/has a carrier section made from a first plastic and a visible section made from another, second material which is connected to the carrier section in an integrally joined manner. A method for producing such an interior door handle arrangement is also provided.

Interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, and method for producing an interior door handle arrangement

An actuating member (), in particular a handle element, an interior door handle arrangement of a vehicle, wherein the actuating member () includes a carrier substrate () preferably made of plastic and a decorative layer () covering the surface of the carrier substrate (). The decorative layer () includes a visible area () that in particular in the intended installed state, and in particular in the non-actuated state of the actuating member () forms a visible side of the actuating member (), at least one gate region () in particular formed in a gate lip or gate tab (), and at least one edge region or arcuate region () by which the gate region () is preferably continuously connected to the visible area () of the decorative layer ().

Actuating element, in particular a handle element, of an inner door handle arrangement of a vehicle and method for producing such an actuating element

The invention relates to a door handle for a car, wherein the door handle has a handle section to be gripped manually and a pivoting bearing section, by way of which the door handle can be mounted on a car door such that it can be pivoted about a pivot axis between a closed position and an open position which unlocks the car door, wherein a metal ball, in particular a steel ball, or a metal cylinder, in particular a steel cylinder, is fastened to the door handle, wherein, if a predefined transverse acceleration which acts on the door handle occurs, the metal ball or the metal cylinder counteracts, as a counterweight, an opening force which acts on the handle section on account of the transverse acceleration. Moreover, the invention relates to a corresponding method for producing a door handle.

Door handle for a car, and method for producing a door handle

A signal generator, in particular opening switch, for a vehicle door or flap, including an actuator, in particular an actuator which can be manually actuated and/or gripped by an operating person, furthermore including a plug housing () with a switch () which is received therein or arranged thereon and which has electrical contacts () which form part of a plug connection, and including an actuator housing () with the actuator (), the actuator being mounted movably on the actuator housing () and acting on the switch (), the actuator housing () and the plug housing () being positionally fixed relative to one another, wherein the electrical contacts () are electrically connected to the switch () by plugged-in conductors.

Signal generator for a vehicle door

An injection-molded component having a casing body of plastics material and a core which is made of a core material, in particular of a metal, which is at least partially received within the casing body and is at least partially insert-molded. The injection-molded component may in particular serve as a joint part of a joint. As a result of the preferably metallic core, the injection-molded component, despite comparatively small dimensioning, is capable of being comparatively highly stressed. By virtue of the casing body of plastics material, a minor actuation noise may be implemented for the joint, even without complex lubrication.

Injection-moulded component, joint, injection-moulding device, and method for producing an injection-moulded component

A light guide () for a motor vehicle, wherein the light guide () has a light-guiding body () made of transparent plastics material, wherein the light-guiding body () has at least one light-entrance surface () and at least one light-exit surface () and wherein the light-guiding body () is covered in a region by means of a substantially light-opaque cover material (), wherein the cover material () is applied onto the region by means of an injection molding method. The use of such a light guide () in a motor vehicle and a method for producing such a light guide ().

Light guide with opaque light cover applied by injection molding

The invention relates to a method for producing a plastic part, especially a plastic part for an automobile, by an injection molding method comprising the steps: Using an injection molding device, plastic in a flowable state is injected into the mold cavity of an injection mold, gas under pressure is injected through a gas inlet opening in the injection mold into the mold cavity of the injection mold by means of a gas injection device so that a gas bubble forms within the still flowable plastic, the plastic is heated and kept flowable, at least in a region neighboring the gas inlet opening while the plastic is hardening in the mold cavity, wherein pressure is exerted on the plastic being kept flowable so that an opening in the plastic in the region of the gas inlet opening is sealed, and the plastic part is removed from the injection mold after reaching a sufficient dimensional stability. In addition, the invention relates to a corresponding device.

Method and device for producing a plastic part, especially a plastic part for an automobile, by an injection molding method

A molding tool for producing a component in a gas-assisted injection molding process includes a mold cavity, and an injection device with a pressurized gas source. The pressurized gas is fed into the plastic melt introduced into the mold cavity. The plastic melt is pressed against the inner walls of the mold cavity. The injection device has a piston with an injector head and moveably guided in a passage of a molding tool connected with the mold cavity. The injector head forms a part of the inner walls of the mold cavity in an idle position of the piston, and is pressed into the plastic melt as the piston moves to its operating position, so that the pressurized gas flows through the passage into the plastic melt in the mold cavity. The piston is moveable by the gas fed through the passage into the plastic melt.

Molding tool for producing a component in a gas-assisted injection molding process

In an injection molding method to manufacture hollow plastic parts, at least one plastic part's hollow is shaped by evacuating an internal portion of the flowable material of an injection mold's cavity using a pressurized gas, and a gate of the mold and thereupon the molded article's aperture so made will be sealed off. After the flowable material has been moved from a blind duct into the gate and partly forced back into the hollow, the molded article will be ejected from the injection mold.

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Elmar Fries