Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus to control the temperature of an panel of a vehicle, including sensing a vehicle condition, communicating the vehicle condition to a controller, associating the vehicle condition with a temperature control requirement, based on the temperature control requirement, generating a temperature control signal, communicating the temperature control signal to a beam generator; and in association with the control signal generating a beam within a near infrared band of 800 nm to 2000 nm, selected to transmit substantially through a base layer but not an outer layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an exterior panel assembly for a vehicle, the assembly comprising a sheet having side edges, a first and second surface opposite of each other, and comprising a thermoplastic material, wherein the sheet is transparent to electromagnetic radiation in at least one of the ranges for radio waves, infrared radiation, visible light and ultraviolet radiation; a heating device comprising an infrared emitter for emitting infrared rays towards the sheet; and a housing structure for accommodating the heating device, wherein the housing structure opens up towards the sheet with an opening, and wherein the sheet extends over the opening of the housing structure. The inventor further relates to a vehicle comprising such an exterior panel assembly.

Abstract: The invention deals with a crate for containers with side walls and a bottom provided in its interior with separating walls creating a plurality of separated spaces for holding a containers, the crate being made out of a thermoplastic material, the thermoplastic material being a transparent or translucent material comprising a blend of at least one thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonate resin and at least one thermoplastic polyester resin comprising units derivable from a cycloaliphatic diol and a cycloaliphiatic or a aromatic diacid.

Abstract: The invention deals with a crate for containers with side walls and a bottom provided in its interior with separating walls creating a plurality of separated spaces for holding a containers, the crate being made out of a thermoplastic material, the thermoplastic material being a transparent or translucent material comprising a blend of at least one thermoplastic aromatic polycarbonate resin and at least one thermoplastic polyester resin comprising units derivable from a cycloaliphatic diol and a cycloaliphatic or a aromatic diacid.

Abstract: A tetrafluoroethylene-containing powder contains free flowing particles of a tetrafluoroethylene polymer at least partially encapsulated by a polymer or copolymer selected from polystyrene, poly-.alpha.-alkylstyrenes, styrene-acrylonitrile copolymers, .alpha.-alkylstyrene-acrylonitrile copolymers, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymers, styrene-butadiene rubbers and their mixtures. The powder is obtained by emulsion polymerization of one or more monomers in the presence of a tetrafluoroethylene polymer and is useful as an additive in polymer compositions and in making molded articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer mixture which comprises the following constituents: Ai) a graft copolymer built up from a rubber-like graft base consisting substantially of a butadiene rubber, on which one or more vinylaromatic monomeric compounds and one or more unsaturated nitrile monomeric compounds have been grafted or Aii) a mixture of Ai and an aromatic polycarbonate, and B) a copolyether ester block copolymer having a polyether block which is derived from an ethylene-oxide-capped poly-(propylene oxide)glycol, having an ethylene oxide content of 15-35% by weight and a number-averaged molecular weight of 1,500-3,000.