Integrated contact heating for thermoplastically bound mats in an injection-molding tool

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9713888
APP PUB NO 20140027947A1
SERIAL NO

13953592

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The invention proposes a device for manufacture of a composite piece, which exhibits a shaped plate and at least one plastic functional piece molded on to the shaped plate. The device has a heater for heating a plate blank; a shaping tool with at least two shaping elements and for admitting and shaping of the plate blank, to bring the plate blank into a desired shape and thus to manufacture the shaped plate; means for insertion of a shaped mass into the shaping tool for molding the plastic functional piece onto the shaped plate in the shaping tool to manufacture the composite piece, wherein the shaping tool is so configured that after the shaping of the plate blank, at least one cavity remains, in which the plastic functional piece is shaped; and a closing unit for opening and closing the shaping tool; wherein the heater is integrated into the closing unit and the closing unit is furnished to open and close the heater.

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  • INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS GROUP GMBH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Meindl, Wolfgang Markt Schwaben, DE 7 33

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