Plastic part with selective metallization and corresponding manufacturing process
AssigneeValeo Securite Habitacle
InventorsOlivier Renaud, Benoît Delande
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a plastic part (1) with selective metallization comprising at least one first non-metallized portion (7) made from a first plastic material that cannot be metallized by electroplating and at least one second metallized portion (9) made from a second metallizable plastic material, the first plastic material being a mixture of polycarbonate and of a semiaromatic polyester and the second plastic material being a polyamide.
Claims12
A process for manufacturing a plastic part with selective metallization, comprising the following stages:
- providing a plastic part comprising at least one first nonmetallized portion made from a mixture of polycarbonate and a semiaromatic polyester and at least one second portion made from a polyamide,
- electroplating the plastic part in order to obtain selective metallization of the second portion;
- wherein the mixture of the polycarbonate and the semiaromatic polyester is reinforced by the addition of filler of a glass bead.
A process for manufacturing a plastic part with selective metallization, comprising the following stages:
- providing a plastic part comprising at least one first nonmetallized portion made of a semiaromatic polyester and at least one second portion made from a polyamide,
- electroplating the plastic part in order to obtain selective metallization of the second portion;
- wherein the semiaromatic polyester is reinforced by the addition of filler of a glass bead.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.