IP Library Granted Patent US 7,121,515
Granted Patent B2
US 7,121,515 · App. 10/014,484 · Granted Oct 17, 2006

Redetachable device

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Patent No.
US 7,121,515
App. No.
10/014,484
Granted
Oct 17, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A redetachable self-adhesive device a) whose reverse face is bonded with a strip of a double-sidedly adhering adhesive sheet in such a way that one end of the adhesive sheet projects beyond the device as a grip tab, b) the adhesive sheet is such that the bond made with it is redetachable by stretching pulling on the grip tab of the strip in the direction of the bond plane, wherein c) on its reverse face ( 2 ) the device ( 1 ), in the region ( 3 A, 3 B) situated against the grip tab ( 6 ) of the adhesive sheet strip ( 5 ) or and also partly against the free adhesive composition, has an average roughness R a of 0.4–25 μm.

Claims (13)

1. A redetachable self-adhesive device, in the form of a structure

a) comprising a surface which is bonded to one side of a double-sided adhesive strip with at least one end of the adhesive strip projecting beyond at least one edge of said surface as a grip tab,

b) the adhesive strip being redetachable by pulling on the grip tab of the strip to stretch the strip in the direction of a plane formed between the strip and the surface it is bonded to,

wherein

c) said surface, in the area immediately adjacent to said at least one end of the adhesive strip projecting as a grip tab, has an average roughness R a of 2–20 μm and has an average depth of roughness R z of 2–100 μm.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the area of the surface having the average roughness R a is produced together with the device by injection molding, or wherein the method of production of said area is selected from the group consisting of etching, grinding, embossing or spark erosion.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said surface has two opposite edges wherein the areas of said surface immediately adjacent to said two opposite edges of said surface have said average roughness R a .

4. The device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising spacers on the surface of the device to which the adhesive strip is bonded wherein the heights of said spacers are less than the thickness of the adhesive strip.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the double-sided adhesive strip is elastically or plastically extensible with or without a carrier in between the two sides of said double-sided adhesive strip.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the adhesion of the double-sided adhesive strip is less than the cohesion, the adhesion largely disappears when the strip is extended, and the ratio of peel force to tear load is at least 1:2.0, the double-sided adhesive strip being based on thermoplastic rubber and tackifying resins.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the side of the double-sided adhesive strip opposite the side that is bonded to the surface of the device is lined with a release laminate or a release film.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said device comprises a hook or latching projection.

9. The device of claim 7 , wherein said release laminate or release film is a siliconized release paper.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 17, 2015
From: TESA SE
To: TESA SE
Reel/Frame 037317/0675 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 7, 2010
From: TESA AG
To: TESA SE
Reel/Frame 025105/0057 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2001
From: FRANCK, ACHIM; JUNGHANS, ANDREAS; LUHMANN, BERND, DR.; KRAWINKEL, THORSTEN, DR.
To: TESA AG
Reel/Frame 012378/0986 →