US 11,992,981 B2
Expanded pellets and method for manufacturing molded components using them
Christopher Edward Holmes, Herzogenaurach (DE); Tru Huu Minh Le, Herzogenaurach (DE); Sabrina Kerling, Herzogenaurach (DE); Dharan Kirupanantham, Herzogenaurach (DE); Volker Altstädt, Bayreuth (DE); Amir Fathi, Bayreuth (DE); Daniel Raps, Bayreuth (DE); Clemens Keilholz, Bayreuth (DE); Thomas Koeppl, Bayreuth (DE); Paul Smith, Bayreuth (DE); Jan Hill, Herzogenaurach (DE); Angus Wardlaw, Herzogenaurach (DE); Daniel Stephen Price, Herzogenaurach (DE); James Tarrier, Herzogenaurach (DE); and Christopher Robertson, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Assigned to adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed by adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed on Aug. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/399,842.
Application 17/399,842 is a continuation of application No. 15/506,951, granted, now 11,117,294, previously published as PCT/EP2015/069368, filed on Aug. 24, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2014 216 992.5 (DE), filed on Aug. 26, 2014; and application No. PCT/EP2015/057909 (WO), filed on Apr. 10, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0370561 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. B29C 44/34 (2006.01); A43B 13/04 (2006.01); A43B 13/18 (2006.01); B29B 9/06 (2006.01); B29B 9/10 (2006.01); B29B 9/12 (2006.01); B29C 44/02 (2006.01); B29C 45/00 (2006.01); C08G 81/02 (2006.01); C08J 9/12 (2006.01); C08J 9/14 (2006.01); C08J 9/16 (2006.01); C08J 9/18 (2006.01); C08J 9/232 (2006.01); C08J 9/36 (2006.01); E04B 1/84 (2006.01); B29K 77/00 (2006.01); B29K 105/04 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01); B29L 31/50 (2006.01); E04B 1/74 (2006.01); G10K 11/162 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 44/3461 (2013.01) [A43B 13/04 (2013.01); A43B 13/187 (2013.01); B29B 9/065 (2013.01); B29B 9/10 (2013.01); B29B 9/12 (2013.01); B29C 44/02 (2013.01); B29C 45/0001 (2013.01); B29C 45/0053 (2013.01); C08G 81/027 (2013.01); C08G 81/028 (2013.01); C08J 9/122 (2013.01); C08J 9/127 (2013.01); C08J 9/142 (2013.01); C08J 9/16 (2013.01); C08J 9/18 (2013.01); C08J 9/232 (2013.01); C08J 9/36 (2013.01); E04B 1/84 (2013.01); B29B 2009/125 (2013.01); B29C 2045/0091 (2013.01); B29C 2045/0093 (2013.01); B29K 2077/00 (2013.01); B29K 2105/04 (2013.01); B29K 2995/0002 (2013.01); B29L 2031/504 (2013.01); B29L 2031/712 (2013.01); C08J 2201/03 (2013.01); C08J 2201/036 (2013.01); C08J 2201/038 (2013.01); C08J 2203/06 (2013.01); C08J 2203/08 (2013.01); C08J 2203/12 (2013.01); C08J 2203/18 (2013.01); C08J 2203/182 (2013.01); C08J 2205/05 (2013.01); C08J 2359/00 (2013.01); C08J 2359/02 (2013.01); C08J 2367/00 (2013.01); C08J 2367/02 (2013.01); C08J 2367/04 (2013.01); C08J 2371/00 (2013.01); C08J 2377/00 (2013.01); C08J 2377/02 (2013.01); C08J 2377/06 (2013.01); E04B 2001/742 (2013.01); G10K 11/162 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Pellets comprising an expanded polymer material, wherein the expanded polymer material comprises amorphous regions and wherein the expanded polymer material comprises polyamide, and wherein the polyamide is present in an amount of at least 50% by weight, based on 100% by weight of the expanded polymer material, wherein the pellet exhibits a variation of less than 50% in its storage modulus in the temperature range of −40° C. to 40° C.