US 12,281,669 B2
Arrangement of a fastening clip on a connecting device which is welded onto a motor vehicle component, and method for producing an arrangement of a fastening clip on a connecting device which is welded onto a vehicle component
Maik Hammer, Bruckberg (DE); Johann Niekerk, Munich (DE); and Frank Woellecke, Germering (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/599,398
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/055087
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/200592, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 108 146.7 (DE), filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0194484 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. F16B 5/06 (2006.01); B62D 27/06 (2006.01)
CPC F16B 5/0657 (2013.01) [B62D 27/06 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An arrangement, comprising:
a fastening clip;
a connecting device, wherein the connecting device comprises at least two connecting elements; and
a motor vehicle component, wherein the at least two connecting elements are each welded on the motor vehicle component and are longitudinally disposed next to one another on the motor vehicle component, wherein a gap runs between the at least two connecting elements, and wherein the at least two connecting elements laterally delimit the gap;
wherein the gap that runs between the at least two connecting elements is delimited by the at least two connecting elements and a surface of the motor vehicle component and wherein the fastening clip engages behind the at least two connecting elements in the gap by a retaining element of the fastening clip that is disposed in the gap;
wherein the fastening clip further comprises a cap-like basic element which is fitted over the connecting device;
wherein the retaining element is an expansion pin which is pluggable into an opening in the cap-like basic element.