US Patent Issued to Hella on July 22 for "Method and tool system for manufacturing a multi-component plastic molded part" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,122, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Method and tool system for manufacturing a multi-component plastic molded part" was invented by Klaus Frie (Lippstadt, Germany), Udo Gottschling (Iserlohn, Germany) and Dietmar Haut (Lippstdt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for manufacturing a multi-component plastic molded part and a tool system. The method comprises a first injection molding step for molding at least one preform, and a second injection molding step for molding at least one second component onto the preform. The first and second injection molding steps a...