Abstract: A battery includes at least two sealing frames and at least one cell. The sealing frames include a base body defining an opening wherein the base body includes a first sealing surface embodied to be elastically compressible and positioned against opposite sides of a tapered area of the at least one cell.

Abstract: A heating element includes a support made of flexible material and a flexible grid structure with an electrically conductive paste disposed on the support.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle having a component whose position can be changed and which is provided with a cable. For this cable, the motor vehicle has a cable store with a force and/or torque storage means, of which the stored force and/or stored torque changes with the position of the component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle having a component whose position can be changed and which is provided with a cable. For this cable, the motor vehicle has a cable store with a force and/or torque storage means, of which the stored force and/or stored torque changes with the position of the component.

Abstract: A battery includes at least two sealing frames and at least one cell. The sealing frames include a base body defining an opening wherein the base body includes a first sealing surface embodied to be elastically compressible and positioned against opposite sides of a tapered area of the at least one cell.

Abstract: A heating element includes a support made of flexible material and a flexible grid structure with an electrically conductive paste disposed on the support.

Abstract: In order that, in the case of an electrical connector for establishing a connection to at least one conductor essentially arranged in a flexible foil, having a dielectric housing with a receptacle for the insertion of the flexible foil and of the at least one conductor, costs are reduced yet the quality of the said connector is improved, at least one contact pin for establishing electrical contact with the at least one conductor is provided, the contact pin exerting a force on the electrical conductor and/or the flexible foil, which force both ensures that the conductor bears mechanically on the contact pin, and ensures the provision of an electrical contact.

Abstract: An electrical device includes a flat flexible dielectric substrate having a generally round hole of a given diameter. A ductile conductive film is on the substrate in an area at least about the hole. A generally flat terminal blade has a transversely projecting pin portion inserted into the hole in the substrate in contact with the conductive film. Therefore, the flat terminal blade is generally parallel to the flat flexible dielectric substrate. The cross-dimension of the pin portion is greater than the diameter of the round hole. In the preferred embodiment, the dielectric substrate is less than 0.050 inch thick, and the difference between the cross-dimension of the pin portion and the diameter of the round hole is on the order of 5% to 50% of the diameter of the hole.

Abstract: A connector assembly for connecting a rigid circuit board to a flat flexible circuit. The connector includes a U-shaped contact element, U-shaped compression spring and U-shaped housing. The housing is dimensioned to receive the circuit board at an edge thereof and includes a receptacle for the flexible circuit. The contact element is mounted in the housing and is in contact with a contact surface of the circuit board and a contact surface of the flexible circuit. The housing includes openings through which a respective contact arm of the contact element extends to contact the circuit board. The compression spring includes pressing surfaces which exert a pressing force against the flexible circuit to effect contact between the flexible circuit and the contact element.

Abstract: An electrical connecting device for a component of a motor vehicle having an electrical functional group, in particular for a motor vehicle seat, comprising a first electrical connector associated with a chassis, a second electrical connector associated with the component adapted to be mated with the first electrical connector upon mounting the component in place on the motor vehicle. Such a device simplifies the mounting and installation of such motor vehicle components and increases the reliability and functional security of the electrical functional groups.