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US 9,849,636 B2Granted
Reinforced structural element made of plastic, in particular in the vehicle interior design field
AssigneeJohnson Controls GmbH
InventorsBernd Gross, Hans-Georg Werner, Sreenivas Paruchuri
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Abstract
A vehicle structural element made of plastic has at least one carbon filler reinforced region and at least one fiberglass reinforced region. In a method for producing the vehicle structural element, a pre-heated carbon fiber reinforced region and a pre-heated fiberglass reinforced region are placed in a press and shaped.
Claims6
A vehicle structural element made of plastic, comprising:
- at least one carbon-fiber-reinforced region;
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- at least one glass-fiber-reinforced region having no overlapping portion with the at least one carbon-fiber-reinforced region,
- wherein the carbon-fiber-reinforced region and the glass-fiber-reinforced region are provided edge to edge,
- wherein the vehicle structural element is a cushion shell of a seat part,
- wherein the at least one carbon-fiber-reinforced region extends in a thigh rest region of the seat part.
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