Body section for a motor vehicle body
AssigneeDaimlerChrysler AG
InventorsWolfgang Fussnegger, Volker Thoms
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Abstract
A body shell part for a motor vehicle body having a profile edge that is form-lockingly embedded in an elastic edge profile. The elastic edge profile has an elastically bendable detent nose profile arrangement which is form-lockingly locked onto an adjacent circumferential edge of the structural vehicle body part. A detachable securing arrangement is assigned to the detent nose profile arrangement for blocking the elastically bendable detent nose profile arrangement in its operating position reaching over the circumferential edge of the structural vehicle body part.
Claims26
Body section for a motor vehicle body having an interior structural body part on which a body shell part is mounted on the outside by way of an edge profile made of an elastically flexible material, the body shell part being provided with an inwardly bent profile edge which extends along the circumference of the body shell part, wherein the entirety of the inwardly bent profile edge of the body shell part is form-lockingly embedded in the elastic edge profile, further wherein the elastic edge profile has an elastically bendable detent nose profile arrangement which is form-lockingly locked onto an adjacent circumferential edge of the structural vehicle body part, and wherein a detachable securing arrangement is positioned in the detent nose profile arrangement thereby blocking the elastically bendable detent nose profile arrangement in its operating position extending around over the circumferential edge of the structural vehicle body part.
A body section for a motor vehicle body comprising:
- a body shell part having a C-shaped profile edge extending circumferentially around an exterior edge of the body shell part;
- an interior structural body part having a S-shaped edge that extends circumferentially around the interior structural body part;
- an elastic edge profile adapted to be secured to and entirely surround the C-shaped profile edge of the body shell part, the elastic edge profile further comprising a detent nose profile adapted to fit around a portion of the S-shaped edge of the interior structural body part;
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- a detachable securing device adapted to be fit into the detent nose profile thereby preventing detachment of the body shell part from the elastic edge profile and the interior structural body part.
A method for securing an exterior body shell part to an interior structure body part comprising;
- forming a C-shaped profile edge circumferentially around an exterior edge of the body shell part;
- forming an S-shaped edge circumferentially around the interior structural body part;
- fitting an elastic edge profile entirely around the C-shaped profile edge of the body shell part;
- pulling an elastic detent nose profile of the elastic edge profile onto a portion of the S-shaped edge of the interior structural body part;
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- inserting a detachable securing device into the detent nose profile in a position whereby the body shell part is prevented from detaching from the elastic edge profile the interior structural body part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.