US 11,143,227 B2Granted

Component combination of at least two components and a method for producing a component combination joined in a form-fitting and/or force-fitting manner

AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsBernhard Glueck, Robert Kirschner, Josef Meinhardt, Franz-Xaver Schweighart

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Abstract

A component combination of at least two components, which are joined at at least one joint, is provided. The component combination includes a first component, wherein a first joining element having a supporting section is pressed into a passage hole in the first component at the joint, and includes a second component, in which a fastening receiving section is formed at the joint, wherein the first joining element also has a fastening section, which engages in the fastening receiving section of the second component in a form-fitting and/or force-fitting manner. A method for producing the component combination is also provided.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A component assembly of at least two components which are joined at at least one joint, comprising:

a first component, wherein, at the joint, a first auxiliary joining element has been pressed with a retaining portion into a through-hole in the first component;
and
a second component, in which a fastening receptacle portion is formed at the joint, wherein the first auxiliary joining element has a fastening portion which engages in a form-and/or force-fitting manner in the fastening receptacle portion of the second component,
wherein the fastening receptacle portion is part of a second auxiliary joining element, that has been pressed with a retaining portion into a through-hole in the second component at the joint.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/511,569Filed 15 Jul 2019 · continuation
Priority: DE 10 2017 200 589.016 Jan 2017
Published: US 2019/0338798 A17 Nov 2019
Granted: 12 Oct 2021
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Classification9 codes

F16B 17/008
Connecting constructional elements or machine parts by a part of or on one member entering a hole in the other and involving plastic deformation:…
B21D 28/26
Perforating, i.e. punching holes: in sheets or flat parts
B21D 39/03
Application of procedures in order to connect objects or parts, e.g. coating with sheet metal otherwise than by plating ; Tube expanders: of sheet…
B21J 15/00
Riveting