Process for manufacture of fresnel lenses

US5870233A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Roehm GmbH Chemische Fabrik · DE

Inventors

• Volker Benz · Kelsterbach, DE
• Martin Berkenkopf · Pfungstadt, DE
• Udo Fischer · Sundbyberg, SE
• Hans Lorenz · Darmstadt, DE
• Michael Meier-Kaiser · Pfungstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 1997
• Grant date: Feb 9, 1999
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/40
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for the extrusion of plastic plates with very finely structured surface using an extrusion system which is equipped with an extruder and a three roll polishing stack containing a roller with the structuring surface. The system is designed for coextrusion and the plastic plates are produced via two extruders as a coextrudate CX from a highly viscous basic molding compound BF and a low viscosity molding compound NF which is extruded on BF. The surface of said plates is structured via the three roll polishing stack. Fresnel lenses produced by the process may be used in solar collectors.