Method for Fixing a Plurality of Workpieces Via a Rivet Element
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsJulia WAGNER, Maximilian WILHELM, Stephan LEHNER
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Abstract
A method for fixing a plurality of workpieces via a hollow rivet element with an open setting end and a closed closing end. The method includes passing the rivet element through mutually aligned openings of the workpieces. The method also includes introducing a fluid, in particular air, under high pressure from the setting end of the rivet element in a hollow space of the rivet element. The method also includes plastically deforming and setting of the rivet element by the fluid at the closed closing end of the rivet element.
Claims14
Method for fixing a plurality of work pieces via a hollow rivet element having an open setting end and a closed closing end, the method comprising the acts of:
- passing the rivet element through mutually aligned openings in the work pieces;
- introducing a liquid, in particular air, under high pressure from the setting end of the rivet element into a hollow space of the rivet element;
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- plastically deforming and setting of the rivet element by the fluid at the closed closing end of the rivet element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.