US 12,460,667 B2
Functional component, component assembly comprising a functional component, and method for securing a functional component to a holding component
Jan-Oliver Brassel, Bad Friedrichshall (DE); Jochen Rintelmann, Dessau (DE); and Jörg Spindler, Überlingen (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Appl. No. 18/250,612
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077118
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 26, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/117245, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102020132184.8 (DE), filed on Dec. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0400047 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. F16B 11/00 (2006.01); F16B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC F16B 11/004 (2013.01) [F16B 17/006 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A composite component having
at least one functional component for a motor vehicle, and
having a holding component,
wherein the functional component is secured to the holding component by pressing a connecting element of the functional component into a depression provided in the holding component,
wherein the connecting element protrudes from a base body of the functional component in a press-in direction in a non-deformed state and is designed to be converted into a deformed state by applying a force acting in the press-in direction to the base body, in which the connecting element is widened in a free end area and the free end area of the connecting element penetrates a wall of the holding component delimiting the depression of the holding component in the circumferential direction,
wherein the base body of the functional component includes a contact surface extending around the connecting element which, in a coupled state of the functional component, in which the functional component is secured to the holding component by pressing the connecting element into the depression, abuts a support surface of the holding component,
wherein a functional module of the functional component is provided by a partial area of the base body facing away from the contact surface;
wherein the functional module, designed in particular to secure a further component to the functional component, is designed to produce a welded connection of the functional component to a further component and comprises a pin-shaped extension which is aligned with the connecting element, wherein the contact surface is formed on a side of a collar-like web of the functional component facing away from the pin-shaped extension and extending around the pin-shaped extension; and
wherein the at least one depression has the shape of a truncated cone that widens counter to the press-in direction.