US 12,415,467 B2
Fastening arrangement, motor vehicle
Ralf Menger, Braunschweig (DE); and Steffen Kapune, Hannover (DE)
Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed by Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Jan. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/099,961.
Application 18/099,961 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2021/069960, filed on Jul. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 209 264.8 (DE), filed on Jul. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0158972 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 13/0206 (2013.01) [B60R 13/0212 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fastening arrangement to fasten a roof liner to a body roof, which has a frame opening, of a motor vehicle, the fastening arrangement comprising:
at least one fastening strip arranged on the roof liner and extending substantially parallel to a longitudinal or transverse side of the frame opening; and
at least one elastically deformable clamping device that includes a latching connector, the at least one clamping device being designed to lock the roof liner to the body roof in a form-fitting manner with the latching connector,
wherein the latching connector is floatingly mounted on the roof liner,
wherein the latching connector, which is guided through an opening of the body roof, engages behind the body roof in a form-fitting manner,
wherein the latching connector has two laterally projecting and elastically deformable or movable latching lugs for engaging behind the body roof,
wherein the two latching lugs face away from one another,
wherein a combined maximum width of the two latching lugs is greater than a clear width of the opening in the body roof,
wherein the two latching lugs are designed as spring tongues that extend from one end of the latching connector, and
wherein the latching connector is held in the opening with lateral play in at least one direction perpendicular to a spring direction of the two latching lugs.