Patents by Inventor Cordelia Zimmerer

Cordelia Zimmerer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for bonding plastics and method for releasing a bond in the plastic composite and a plastic composite
    Patent number: 9446574
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of chemistry and concerns a method suitable for example for use in the automotive industry or in aircraft construction. The object of the present invention is to provide a method by which a bonding of the regions of the plastics that are in direct contact is accomplished. The object is achieved by a method for bonding plastics in which materials which contain at least one electrically conductive material and only partially cover the plastics are applied to at least one of the plastics to be bonded, then the plastics are brought into contact with one another, at least in the region with the materials, and after that at least this region is exposed at least once to an alternating electromagnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER POLYMERFORSCHUNG DRESDEN E.V.
    Inventors: Cordelia Zimmerer, Gerald Steiner, Gert Heinrich
  • METHOD FOR BONDING PLASTICS AND METHOD FOR RELEASING A BOND IN THE PLASTIC COMPOSITE AND A PLASTIC COMPOSITE
    Publication number: 20150111042
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of chemistry and concerns a method suitable for example for use in the automotive industry or in aircraft construction. The object of the present invention is to provide a method by which a bonding of the regions of the plastics that are in direct contact is accomplished. The object is achieved by a method for bonding plastics in which materials which contain at least one electrically conductive material and only partially cover the plastics are applied to at least one of the plastics to be bonded, then the plastics are brought into contact with one another, at least in the region with the materials, and after that at least this region is exposed at least once to an alternating electromagnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Cordelia Zimmerer, Gerald Steiner, Gert Heinrich