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Foamed plastic sheet

US7988805B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 10, 2008
Grant dateAug 2, 2011
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Expiry dateJan 10, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/249991
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An unmixed plastic sheet, which is made of a thermoplastic material and which is composed of a number of body segments that are adjacent to one another in a plane, interconnected and made of a closed-cell foam material. The body segments are thermoplastically welded to one another at their abutting lateral faces while forming flat weld seams. The flat weld seams form a plastic intermediate layer, which has few pores, and which is provided in the form of a web structure that, when viewed from above, is reticular and reinforces the plastic sheet. The inventive plastic sheet is preferably used as a core layer in sandwich composites.

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