Abstract: The invention relates to a knee restraint device for the knee protection of occupants in motor vehicles, comprising a load distribution plate for direct contact with the knees of the occupant. The knee restraint device further comprises a drive device which in a cage of restraint moves the load distribution plate from a starting position toward the knees up to a restraint position. A retracting device is provided which moves the load distribution plate from the restraint position back toward the starting position.

Abstract: The invention provides a monolayered thermoplastic hot-melt adhesive film without a separating layer which can be rolled up and unrolled without the additional use of a separating layer and in which the polymer matrix of copolyamides and/or copolyesters contains an additive combination of 0.4 wt. % to 8.0 wt. % of a spacer and 0.05 wt. % to 1.0 wt. % of a separating and lubricating agent, and optionally up to 1 wt. % of other additives, each with respect to the total mixture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for modifying articles and/or semi-finished products made from polymer resin moulding compositions, wherein said articles and/or semi-finished products, which substantially consist of moulding compositions comprising mixtures of thermoplastic polymers where exhibit good biodegradability and thermoplastic polymers which exhibit poor biodegradability, are subjected to biodegradation.

Abstract: A knee protection device for vehicle occupants comprises a gas bag having a gas bag wall with opposing sections. The gas bag, in its installed and inflated state, extends in front of the knees of the occupant of the vehicle, lies against the knees in the case of restraint and is intended to largely prevent the knees from moving forward. The device further comprises means in the gas bag which connect the opposing sections of the gas bag wall. The means are fixed to the sections of the gas bag wall and are arranged in such a way that they counteract a change of shape of the gas bag on plunging in by the knees.

Abstract: A knee restraint device for vehicles comprises a base, a knee protector component which is movable towards the knees of a vehicle occupant, a drive means which is arranged between the base and the knee protector component, and catching and positioning means which control the movement path of the knee protector component at least in the up/down direction relative to the vehicle and which, in the limit of travel of the drive means, define a predetermined end position of the knee protector component in the space. To provide a knee restraint device which accomplishes the controlling of the movement path and the definition of the end position of the knee protector component and which can be adjusted in a simple manner to various end positions of the knee protector component, the catching and positioning means are arranged outside the drive means and the drive means loosely contacts the knee protector component.

Abstract: The invention relates to an extruded single-layer copolyetherester film with improved permeability to water vapor coupled with favorable mechanical properties, high elasticity and good surface slip so that it does not block on machinery.

Abstract: Thermally and mechanically formable polymer film, characterised by a transparent antistatic coating of a mixture of 3,4-polyethylene dioxythiophene with a thermally or mechanically formable binder, its production and its use for packaging electronic components.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film made of acrylate terpolymer blends, which substantially consists of mixtures of soft acrylate polymers, which themselves are synthesised from acrylate, styrene and acrylonitrile monomers, with thermoplastic polyurethanes having Shore hardnesses of less than 90 A as measured according to DIN 53 505.

Abstract: A waterproof and, at the same time, breathable and antistatic film produced without a support by extrusion, the film having a DIN friction coefficient of less than 0.8 and consisting of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer resins with a melt flow rate, as measured at 190.degree. C. under a load of 10 kg, of at most 70, the soft segment of the elastomer resins consisting of polyethylene oxide and/or containing ethylene oxide reaction products and the relative percentage by weight of the soft segment in the polyurethane resin being between 35% by weight and 60% by weight, based on the total weight of the polyurethane used.

Abstract: Film of at least two layers having at least one side softening at a lower temperature and at least one side softening at a higher temperature, wherein the higher-softening side substantially consists of a thermoplastic polyurethane which softens at above 100.degree. C. on a Kofler hot bench and the median of the softening range is at least 15.degree. C. above that of the lower-softening layer and the matrix component of the lower-softening side consists of at least one hot-bonding thermoplastic material from the group comprising polyamides, polyesters and polyurethanes having a median of the softening range on a Kofler hot bench of below 100.degree. C. and at least one thermoplastic additive component containing hydrocarbon is added to the lower-softening layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer film having at least one layer substantially formed from thermoplastic polyurethanes, and at least one further layer, formed from an olefin-based polymer coupling agent, which contains maleic anhydride as a formulation component and the Vicat softening temperature of which, measured to ASTM D 1525, is less than 60.degree. C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to waterproof but breathable flat materials prepared from the melt from polymer resin mixtures consisting of at least two different melt processable polyurethanes, wherein the different thermoplastic polyurethanes have soft segments with different chemical constitutions, wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane which forms the matrix is a polyurethane with a ether based soft segment, wherein the ether segment has a carbon/oxygen atomic ratio of at least two and at most three and is present at a rate of 70-95 wt. % with reference to the total weight of thermoplastic polyurethanes used for melt processing to produce a flat material, and wherein the flat materials according to the invention have a higher permeability to water vapour, determined according to DIN 53 122, and a lower water absorption, determined according to DIN 53 495, method C, than flat materials made from one of the polyurethanes used for the polymer resin mixture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film of at least two layers having at least one side softening at a lower temperature and at least one side softening at a higher temperature, wherein the higher-softening side substantially consists of a thermoplastic polyurethane which softens at above 100.degree. C. on a Kofler hot bench and the median of the softening range is at least 15.degree. C. above that of the lower-softening layer and the matrix component of the lower-softening side consists of at least one hot-bonding thermoplastic material from the group comprising polyamides, polyesters and polyurethanes having a median of the softening range on a Kofler hot bench of below 100.degree. C. and at least one additive component from the group comprisinga) additive masterbatches containing inorganic particles,b) additive masterbatches containing organic particleswith thermoplastic matrix resins is added to the lower-softening layer.

Abstract: A single-layered, plastic and elastic thermoplastic hot-melt adhesive film which does not have a separating layer, wherein it can be wound on and off a reel without the use of a supplementary separating material, is essentially free of antiblocking agents and/or lubricants and that the maximum of its thermoanalytically determined main melting peak is below 90.degree. C. and which is essentially formed from at least two olefin copolymers with polar comonomers A and B, wherein ethylene is preferably used as an olefinic monomer, and whose essential comonomers contain oxygen atoms and the essential oxygen-containing comonomers in the olefin copolymers A and B are not identical, wherein the total proportion of oxygen-containing comonomer in the total weight of polymer resin forming the film is between 18 wt. % and 40 wt. % and the proportion of oxygen-containing comonomers in copolymer A is at least 60 wt.