Laser activation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11325208-B2
Application number	US-201916720759-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2019
Priority date	Dec 21, 2018
Publication date	May 10, 2022
Grant date	May 10, 2022

Abstract

A method for roughening a surface of a body by a laser, the laser acting on the surface of a body and thereby creating recesses in the surface, and the laser thereby being directed and guided onto the surface and set in terms of its power output in such a way that recesses with at least two substantially different depths are created in the surface of the body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for roughening a surface of a body by at least one laser, the laser acting on the surface of the body and creating recesses in the surface, and the laser being directed and guided onto the surface and set in terms of a power output of the laser in such a way that separated recesses with at least two substantially different depths are created in the surface of the body, each of the recesses surrounded by a periphery on the surface of the body, the at least two substantially different depths extending below the surface of the body.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the laser is controlled in such a way that it activates the surface in a roughened region.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a material of the surface of the body is a plastic.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a material of the surface of the body is a plastic.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the body plastic is selected from the group consisting of a thermoplastic, a thermoset, and an epoxy.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein multiple recesses are created and at the same time recesses of substantially two different types of recess are created, differing substantially from one another at least by their depth and each type of recess having a defined depth or a defined depth interval.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the laser is controlled in such a way that the creation of a first type of recess with a smaller depth prevails, and is interrupted by the creation of a second type of recess with a greater depth, the laser being controlled in such a way that in each case after a defined time, and/or after a defined distance of the surface covered by the laser, or on the basis of a defined random principle, recesses of the second type of recess are created in the surface between the recesses of the first type of recess.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein first the recesses of the first type of recess are created and then the laser creates the recesses of the second type of recess.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the depth of the second type of recess is at least 3 times as great/deep as the depth of the first type of recess.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the laser is controlled in such a way that the recesses, of the first type of recess and of the second type of recess, substantially have a point-like and/or groove-like structure and taper in a direction of deeper into the body.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the depth of the second type of recess is 10 times as great/deep as the depth of the first type of recess.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the laser is directed and guided onto the surface in such a way that it substantially does not create any preferential direction and/or regular pattern of the recesses.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a material of the surface of the body comprises round and/or substantially spherical filler bodies.

Assignees

• Continental Teves Ag & Co Ohg

Inventors

• Benner Marco
• Raukopf Svenja
• Häupl Florian
• Rosenberger Johannes

Classifications

• B29C45/1418 Primary

  the inserts being deformed or preformed, e.g. by the injection pressure · CPC title

• B29C2045/14868

  Pretreatment of the insert, e.g. etching, cleaning · CPC title

• B23K26/3584

  Increasing rugosity, i.e. roughening · CPC title

• B29C65/16

  Laser beams · CPC title

• B29C45/16

  Making multilayered or multicoloured articles {(B29C45/0062 takes precedence; feeding colouring materials into the injection unit B29C45/1816)} · CPC title