Adhesive closing device provided with a switching circuit

• US 7,847,195 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2003
• Issued: 12/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Tuma, Jan
• Primary Examiner(s): Norris; Jeremy C
• Application Number:
  US10/541,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20060131066A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,614 Days
• Field of Search: 174/250, 174/255, 174/259
• US Class Current: 174/250
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 18/0065 of a mushroom type

Abstract

A closing device (1, 101, 201, 301) includes a plurality of adhesive closing elements (2) in the form of a hook, mushroom head or clasp, and a flat support (3, 103, 203, 303). The adhesive closing elements (2) protruded from at least one surface (4) of the support (3, 103, 203, 303). At least one switching circuit (5, 503) with at least one electric and/or electronic component (6, 106, 7, 107, 207, 307) is provided.

Claims

1. An adhesive closure part, comprising:

a flat carrier having first and second opposite surfaces;

adhesive closure elements of electrically insulating plastic projecting from said first surface of said flat carrier and comprising at least one of hooks, mushroom-shaped members and loops, said flat carrier and said adhesive closure elements being unitary; and

a circuit directly on said second surface of said flat carrier, said circuit including at least one of an electrical component and electronic component.

2. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

another electrical or electronic component is located one of in and directly on said flat carrier.

3. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

another electrical or electronic component is integrated into said flat carrier.

4. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said one of the electrical component and electronic component comprises an application of one of thick and thin film technology.

5. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein another of an electrical or electronic component is laminated onto said flat carrier.

6. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein said circuit comprises electrical conductor strips.

7. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein said circuit comprises electrical or electronic sensors.

8. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein said circuit comprises an integrated semiconductor component.

9. An adhesive closure part according to claim 8 wherein said integrated semiconductor component comprises an electronic data memory.

10. An adhesive closure part according to claim 9 wherein said electronic data memory stores data readable without contact.

11. An adhesive closure part according to claim 10 wherein said data is storable without contact.

12. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said circuit comprises at least one receiving coil for receiving electrical energy to operate said circuit by an electromagnetic field.

13. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said circuit comprises an energy storage device.

14. An adhesive closure part according to claim 13 wherein

said energy storage device is an electrochemical storage device being an application of thin or thick film technology.

15. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said flat carrier and said adhesive closure elements are of at least one of the group consisting of duroplastic, thermoplastic, polymer plastic and acrylate plastic.

16. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said circuit comprises printed electrical conductors directly on said flat carrier and connected to an electronic component.

17. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said circuit comprises printed electrical conductors directly on said flat carrier connected to an electronic component integrated in said flat carrier.

18. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said circuit comprises printed electrical conductors directly on said flat carrier connected to and extending from an electric component laminated directly on said flat carrier and connected to said printed electrical conductors.

19. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said circuit comprises first and second electrical conductors directly on said flat carrier having adjacent ends abutting one another when said carrier is in one position and separated from one another when said flat carrier is in another position.

20. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said flat carrier is flexible and electrically insulating.

21. An adhesive closure part according to claim 1 wherein

said flat carrier and said adhesive closure parts are of the same electrically insulating plastic.