Patents by Inventor Frank Reil

Frank Reil 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).

  • Publication number: 20040152345
    Abstract: A process is described in which surfaces of foamed plastics are provided with electrical conductor tracks, with the aid of selectively ablating processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Stefan Diel
  • Patent number: 6759458
    Abstract: A black thermoplastic molding composition which containing a dye combination made from nonabsorbing, non-black polymer-soluble dyes which produce a black thermoplastic molding composition which is translucent or transparent to laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Reil
  • Patent number: 6444065
    Abstract: Rotatable plastic rollers are produced by either injecting between a roller shaft and an outer running roller layer a thermoplastic material which, during cooling down, shrinks toward the roller shaft and away from the outer running roller layer on account of a contraction in volume or, in the multi-component injection-molding process, by first injecting the outer running roller layer and then injecting between the latter and the roller shaft a thermoplastic material which then likewise shrinks toward the roller shaft and away from the outer running roller layer. The process produces plastic rollers comprising an inner running roller layer (2), which is bonded solidly with the roller shaft (1), and an outer running roller layer (3), which can rotate freely with respect to said inner layer by means of a sliding gap (6). The roller shaft may optionally also be sheathed with a thermoplastic elastomer. This may take place in the same process during the multi-component injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Hermann Kleinegesse
  • Publication number: 20020110674
    Abstract: A process for the production of electrically conductive layers on the surface of plastics in which the surface of a plastic filled with electrically conductive constituents is irradiated with laser energy in such a way that the plastic is evaporated down to a predetermined depth at the point of incidence by the laser energy, leaving behind the electrically conductive constituents, which increase in concentration and thus form an electrically conductive layer. With the aid of the process, plastic moldings with integrated electrically conductive layers or tracks on the surface can be produced, for example components used in the electrical and electronics industries or other large or small plastic parts of any desired shape which are provided with conductive elements in certain places. The molding can also be a constituent of a composite article with other materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Volker Pieper, Kai-Uwe Tonnes
  • Patent number: 6417486
    Abstract: A process for the production of electrically conductive layers on the surface of plastics in which the surface of a plastic filled with electrically conductive constituents is irradiated with laser energy in such a way that the plastic is evaporated down to a predetermined depth at the point of incidence by the laser energy, leaving behind the electrically conductive constituents, which increase in concentration and thus form an electrically conductive layer. With the aid of the process, plastic moldings with integrated electrically conductive layers or tracks on the surface can be produced, for example components used in the electrical and electronics industries or other large or small plastic parts of any desired shape which are provided with conductive elements in certain places. The molding can also be a constituent of a composite article with other materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Volker Pieper, Kai-Uwe Tönnes
  • Publication number: 20020046996
    Abstract: A process for the production of electrically conductive layers on the surface of plastics in which the surface of a plastic filled with electrically conductive constituents is irradiated with laser energy in such a way that the plastic is evaporated down to a predetermined depth at the point of incidence by the laser energy, leaving behind the electrically conductive constituents, which increase in concentration and thus form an electrically conductive layer. With the aid of the process, plastic moldings with integrated electrically conductive layers or tracks on the surface can be produced, for example components used in the electrical and electronics industries or other large or small plastic parts of any desired shape which are provided with conductive elements in certain places. The molding can also be a constituent of a composite article with other materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Volker Pieper, Kai-Uwe Tonnes
  • Publication number: 20020002225
    Abstract: A black thermoplastic molding composition which containing a dye combination made from nonabsorbing, non-black polymer-soluble dyes which produce a black thermoplastic molding composition which is translucent or transparent to laser light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventor: Frank Reil
  • Patent number: 6296797
    Abstract: Process for producing a composite article from a polyacetal (component a) with directly molded-on functional elements made from one or more thermoplastic elastomers (component b), and wherein components a and b have differing hardness, and the material with the greater hardness (component a) is initially premolded in a first step in a mold, and then is either cooled and removed from the mold and then placed into another, larger cavity, or is partially removed from the mold, but remains in a portion of the mold, and is then moved to a larger cavity, or, without removal from the mold, remains in the same mold, which is enlarged by means of a movable device, and in a second step, by overmolding with the material with the lesser hardness (component b), the molding formed from component a is firmly bonded to this material and is then removed from the mold as a composite article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Ursula Ziegler, Klaus Kurz, Frank Reil
  • Patent number: 6225416
    Abstract: The novel molding made from a combination of polyacetal with directly molded-on function elements is distinguished by the fact that the function elements comprise one or more elastomers. Such elastomers comprise partially or fully hydrogenated nitrile rubbers, one- or multicomponent silicone rubbers or sulfur-containing rubbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Frank Reuter, Ulrich Haack, Gerhard Reuschel
  • Patent number: 6111029
    Abstract: The novel molding made from a combination of polyacetal with directly molded-on function elements is distinguished by the fact that the function elements comprise one or more elastomers. Such elastomers comprise partially or fully hydrogenated nitrile rubbers, one- or multi-component silicone rubbers or sulfur-containing rubbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Frank Reuter, Ulrich Haack, Gerhard Reuschel
  • Patent number: 5977266
    Abstract: The novel molding made from a combination of polyacetal with directly molded-on function elements is distinguished by the fact that the function elements comprise one or more elastomers. Such elastomers comprise partially or fully hydrogenated nitrile rubbers, one- or multi-component silicone rubbers or sulfur-containing rubbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Reil, Frank Reuter, Ulrich Haack, Gerhard Reuschel