Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Bbs Motorsport Gmbh

Kringlan Composites Ag

Hubert Burlefinger

Bernhard Staudt

Martin Schindlbeck

Niccolo Pini

Roman Mueller

David Fuchs

Thomas Meier

Thomas Unterhauser

Johannes Mendel

Thomas Passreiter

Markus Tomasini

Tobias Wiethaler

Bernd Zacherle

Andreas Eberl

A pressing tool is provided for producing fiber composite components, including a first tool part and a second tool part moveable relative to the first tool part. In the closed state of the pressing tool, the two tool parts form a shaping cavity for accommodating a fiber semi-finished product to be shaped and each have a tool surface delimiting the cavity. In addition, at least one of the tool surfaces has at least two adjacent flat sections inclined toward each other which are connected to each other by way of a curved transition section. The curved transition section has at least one groove-shaped recess facing the cavity.

Pressing tool with optimized resin flow

A vehicle wheel having a rim, or a rim of a vehicle wheel, is provided wherein the rim consists of a fiber-reinforced plastic material in the form of several layers of a fiber-reinforced semi-finished plastic product. The layers are shaped to form a finished component in a press while heat is supplied. The rim conventionally consists of a rim well, whose two sides are adjoined by a rim shoulder, which transitions into a rim flange. The rim well is formed by several layers of a base laminate, which extends to the rim flange, between which layers further layers are inserted in the area of the rim shoulder as well as of the rim flange. The further layers have an essentially tangential fiber alignment.

Vehicle wheel with a rim made of fiber-reinforced synthetic material

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Furth, Germany

Hubert Burlefinger