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Expanded metal for automotive interior parts

US11813654B2 · kind B2 · utility

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7Claims

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Assignee

GRAMMER Interior Components GmbH · DE

Inventors

Manfred Link · Nuremberg, DE
Ralf Tuerk · Walldürn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 12, 2020
Grant date	Nov 14, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 2, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB21D53/88
WIPO fieldMachine tools
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An expanded metal produced by repeated penetration of a movable cutting die including teeth into a metal sheet that is run through an expansion device in a feed direction, the expanded metal including a plurality of loops, wherein the loops include bars that envelop loop openings and that are connected in nodes, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening length measured in the feed direction along a line from a node center to node another center of two nodes that are arranged behind one another in the feed direction, wherein each of the loops includes a loop opening width that is measured transversal to the feed direction along a line from a node center to a node center of two nodes that are arranged adjacent to each other transversal to the feed direction.

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