Abstract: A method for producing an object by additive manufacturing using a polyamide filament includes performing the additive manufacturing using the polyamide filament and a fused deposition modeling process. The polyamide is a cast polyamide. Advantageously, it is possible that the polyamide can have a Young's modulus in tension of 3,300 MPa to 4,000 MPa, and/or a heat-distortion temperature HDT A of 80° C. to 150° C. and/or a heat-distortion temperature HDT B of 180° C. to 240° C., and/or a yield stress of 85 MPa to 100 MPa and/or a Vicat softening temperature VST/B/50 of 208° C. to 220° C. Advantageously, it is possible that the polyamide can include a polyamide 6, a polyamide 12, a blend thereof, or a copolymer thereof.

Abstract: A pressure vessel having a hollow body wound with a continuous filament, whereby the filament is embedded in a thermoplastic matrix, is provided, as well as a method for producing such a vessel. The method involves: (i) wrapping a hollow body with at least one continuous filament; (ii) impregnating the filament winding with a polymerizable mixture, whereby the wound body is inside a mold that surrounds the wound body; and (iii) polymerizing the polymerizable mixture in order to form a plastic matrix that embeds the filament winding.

Abstract: A pressure vessel having a hollow body wound with a continuous filament, whereby the filament is embedded in a thermoplastic matrix, is provided, as well as a method for producing such a vessel. The method involves: (i) wrapping a hollow body with at least one continuous filament; (ii) impregnating the filament winding with a polymerizable mixture, whereby the wound body is inside a mold that surrounds the wound body; and (iii) polymerizing the polymerizable mixture in order to form a plastic matrix that embeds the filament winding.

Abstract: A molded component to connect a motor vehicle window with a water box includes a first segment affixable to the vehicle window and a second segment having a detent cavity bounded by a resilient leg and configured to receive a rib of the water box in an insertion direction so as to detachably affix the water box in a frictionally and/or geometrically interlocking manner in the detent cavity. A detent element projects into the detent cavity at an acute angle relative to the insertion direction such that the resilient leg is elastically deformed to a greater extent during an extraction of the rib of the water box from the detent cavity than during an insertion of the rib of the water box into the detent cavity. This facilitates the insertion and presents a greater resistance to the extraction of the rib from the detent cavity.

Abstract: (57) Main claim: A molded component (10) to connect a motor vehicle window (40) to a water box (50). comprising a first segment (20) affixable to said window and a second segment (30) having or forming a detent cavity (60) to allow detachable affixation of said water box (50), said water box being fitted with a rib (51) which is affixable frictionally and/or in geometrically interlocking manner in said detent cavity (60), the first segment (20) partly enclosing at its edge the motor vehicle window (40), characterized in that said molded component comprises at least one detent element (70) designed to ease inserting the rib (51) of the water box (50) into the detent cavity (60) in a first direction (R1, whereas making it comparatively more difficult to extract the rib (51) from the detent cavity (60) in the opposite direction (R2).

Abstract: A street light, outdoor light or the like is mounted on a tubular pole or similar vertical holder and has a lamp socket and a bulb. A lampshade to be detachably connected to the lamp socket includes a plastic transparent bulb cover for surrounding the bulb at a given level. The bulb cover has a sharply offset zone with a cross-sectional enlargement at the given level, an upper end with a domelike bulge and a lower edge with one component of a bayonet mount for connection to the lamp socket. A sheet-metal shade ring disposed inside the bulb cover at the given level is nondisplaceably fixed in axial direction in the enlargement. A lamp canopy disposed above the bulb outside the bulb cover has a central opening through which the domelike bulge protrudes and beyond which the domelike bulge extends. A funnel-shaped metal heat shield body is disposed inside the domelike bulge and spaced apart from the bulb cover.