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US 2014/0154455 A1Published application
Component for a vehicle
AssigneeJohnson Controls GmbH
InventorsAndreas Eppinger, Daniel Jendritza, Ming Huo, Wei Lange-Mao, Yanning Zhao
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Abstract
A component for a vehicle, includes at least one component part, which is made of a magnetically active foam material and/or a foam material which can be magnetically activated and/or a dielectric elastomer. The component is at least partially or completely laterally delimited so that the component elastically expandable in at least one degree of freedom. The component can be a switch element, a transducer, an active muffler, and/or an energy conversion element.
Claims7
A component for a vehicle, comprising:
- at least one component part, which is formed from a magnetically active and/or magnetically activatable foam material and/or a dielectric elastomer, the component part being laterally delimited at least partially or completely in such a way that the component part is elastically expandable with at least one degree of freedom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.