Patents by Inventor JOACHIM TOTZL

JOACHIM TOTZL 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).

  • Patent number: 10864851
    Abstract: A planar decorative material (11), for interior furnishing, with perforations (12), in particular for the automotive industry, which serves to be illuminated, on its rear side (13), with a illumination device (18) and permits a part of the light of the illumination device (18) to pass from the rear side (13) of the decorative material (11) through the perforations (12) to the visible side (14) of the decorative material (11), wherein a film (20) adheres onto the rear side (13) of the decorative material (11), and the perforations (12) extend through the film (20) as far as to the visible side (14) of the decorative material (11), and the film (20) is an adhesive film activatable by increase in temperature and/or pressure, which can be permanently adhesively-bonded onto the illumination device (18) under increase in temperature to a temperature T2 and/or increase in pressure to a pressure p2. The present invention also relates to a manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Norman Eitel, Joachim Totzl
  • Publication number: 20190283667
    Abstract: The invention relates to a planar decorative material (11), for interior furnishing, with perforations (12), in particular for the automotive industry, which serves to be illuminated, on its rear side (13), with a illumination device (18) and permits a part of the light of the illumination device (18) to pass from the rear side (13) of the decorative material (11) through the perforations (12) to the visible side (14) of the decorative material (11), wherein a film (20) adheres onto the rear side (13) of the decorative material (11), and the perforations (12) extend through the film (20) as far as to the visible side (14) of the decorative material (11), and the film (20) is an adhesive film activatable by increase in temperature and/or pressure, which can be permanently adhesively-bonded onto the illumination device (18) under increase in temperature to a temperature T2 and/or increase in pressure to a pressure p2. (cf. FIG. 2) The present invention also relates to a manufacturing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: NORMAN EITEL, JOACHIM TOTZL