# US 11,999,304 B2 · Apparatus for fastening a vehicle component in and/or on a vehicle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,999,304 B2 - Document ID: US11999304B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/801,453 - Filed: 2021-01-15 - Published: 2023-03-16 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2020-02-20 - Assignees: Adler Pelzer Holding GmbH - Applicants: Adler Pelzer Holding GmbH - Inventors: Frank Riederer; Thomas Karcz; Volkmar Schulze; Wolfgang Riedisser; Tobias Baeuerle - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11999304B2 ## CPC - B60R 13/0206: {Arrangements of fasteners and clips specially adapted for attaching inner vehicle liners or mouldings (devices for fastening or securing F16B)} - B60R 13/0815: {Acoustic or thermal insulation of passenger compartments (wall or roof liners integrating the insulating function B60R13/02; insulating floor mats or carpets B60N3/04)} - F16B 5/0642: {the plates being arranged one on top of the other and in full close contact with each other} - F16B 5/0657: {at least one of the plates providing a raised structure, e.g. of the doghouse type, for connection with the clamps or clips of the other plate} - F16B 5/0664: {at least one of the sheets or plates having integrally formed or integrally connected snap-in-features} - F16B 21/065: {with an additional locking element} - F16B 21/084: {with a series of flexible ribs or fins extending laterally from the shank of the stud, pin or spigot, said ribs or fins deforming predominantly in a direction parallel to the direction of insertion of the shank} - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - F16B: DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D) ## Abstract The apparatus for fastening a vehicle component in and/or on a vehicle has a sound insulation element with a carrier layer and a sound absorbing layer. An anchoring recess is formed in the carrier layer and has an insertion opening in a first side of the carrier layer, which insertion opening is adjoined by a receiving space which is delimited by the plastic material of the carrier layer and is defined by a closed circumferential inner side and a closed bottom surface. An anchoring element is further provided. The anchoring recess has a constriction area formed on the circumferential inner side and at least partially narrowing the receiving space, with a widened widening area adjoining in the direction of the bottom surface. The anchoring element has an anchoring shoulder for engaging behind the constriction area when the anchoring element is received by the anchoring recess. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus for fastening a vehicle component in and/or on a vehicle, having a sound insulation element wherein the sound insulation element comprises a carrier layer, which has a plastic material, with a first side and a second side remote therefrom and a sound absorbing layer, which is formed on the second side of the carrier layer, of likewise a plastic material or of synthetic fibre or natural fibre material, wherein an anchoring recess is formed in the carrier layer, which anchoring recess has an insertion opening in the first side of the carrier layer, which insertion opening is adjoined by a receiving space delimited by the plastic material of the carrier layer, which receiving space is defined by a closed circumferential inner side and a closed bottom surface, and an anchoring element for receiving in the anchoring recess, wherein the anchoring element is formed in one piece with a component to be fastened to the carrier layer of the sound insulation element or is formed in one piece with a holding element to which the component to be fastened to the carrier layer of the sound insulation element can be attached, or can be guided through a through-opening formed in the component to be fastened to the carrier layer of the sound insulation element, wherein the anchoring recess has a receiving space formed on the circumferential inner side, which at least partially narrows the receiving space and has a widened widening area adjoining it in the direction of the bottom surface and/or wherein the anchoring element has an anchoring shoulder for engaging behind the constriction area when the anchoring element is received by the anchoring recess, wherein a positioning element is provided, which is constructed in one piece with the component to be fastened to the carrier layer of the sound insulation element or in one piece with a holding element, to which the component to be fastened to the carrier layer of the sound insulation element can be attached. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a positioning recess is formed in the carrier layer of the sound insulation element, which positioning recess has an insertion opening in the first side of the carrier layer, which insertion opening is adjoined by a receiving space which is delimited by the plastic material of the carrier layer and is defined by a closed circumferential inner side and a closed bottom surface. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the positioning element and the anchoring element are insertable and/or insertable into their respective recesses when aligned with the positioning recess and the anchoring recess, respectively. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the pairs of anchoring element and anchoring recess and positioning element and positioning recess are mechanically coded differently for preventing misalignment of the component to be fastened to the carrier layer of the sound insulation element in its fastening state. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the anchoring element and the anchoring recess have a mutually equal cylindrical first cross-section, that the positioning element and the positioning recess have a mutually equal cylindrical second cross-section, and that the size of the first cross-section is different from the size of the second cross-section. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the anchoring member and the anchoring recess have a mutually equal first cross-sectional area, that the positioning member and the positioning recess have a mutually equal second cross-sectional area, and that the second cross-sectional area is different from the first cross-sectional area or that the second cross-sectional area is equal to the first cross-sectional area and is oriented in a twisted manner with respect to the second cross-sectional area. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the insertion opening of the anchoring recess has an opening edge and in that the anchoring element has a circumferential flange with a circumferential edge region which projects beyond the edge of the insertion opening of the locking recess and thus covers the insertion opening of the locking recess in the state of the locking element received by the latter. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the insertion opening of the positioning recess has an opening edge and in that the positioning element has a circumferential flange with a circumferential edge portion which projects beyond the edge of the insertion opening of the positioning recess and thus covers the insertion opening of the positioning recess in the state of the positioning element received thereby. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the anchoring element has barb-like structures on its outer circumference. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the holding element is substantially flat. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the holding element can be positioned in a trough formed in the carrier layer. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the holding element is positionable in the trough such that the holding element is spaced from a bottom of said trough. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the anchoring recess has a depth which is chosen such that the anchoring element does not reach the bottom of the anchoring recess in an assembled state. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) A motor vehicle with an apparatus according to claim 1. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle component is selected from a group consisting of a front wall cladding, a floor cladding, a luggage compartment cladding, an engine or aggregate encapsulation and a wheel housing cladding.