Key with a colored housing

US8662688B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Witte Automotive GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Nickel · Winsen (Aller), DE
• Richard-Roman Jarnicki · Velbert, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 1, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 13, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T70/7825
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A key, primarily a remote control key for automobiles, with a housing that has an upper shell and a lower shell and a key held between the upper shell and the lower shell. To make the key housing more esthetically pleasing and easier to manufacture, the lower shell consists of a transparent plastic joined by laser welding to a colored core of the upper shell.