Method for mounting a front-end module and a front headlamp on a body of a passenger car and holding arrangement for holding a front headlamp on a front-end module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10207629-B2
Application number	US-201615095659-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 11, 2016
Priority date	Oct 11, 2013
Publication date	Feb 19, 2019
Grant date	Feb 19, 2019

Abstract

A method is provided for mounting a front-end module and at least one front headlamp on a body of a passenger car, including the steps of: holding the front headlamp in at least one pre-mounting position on the front-end module via a holding device, by which the front headlamp is held on the front-end module so as to be movable relative to the latter; arranging the front-end module on the body together with the front headlamp held thereon via the holding device so as to be movable relative to the front-end module, wherein the front-end module and therewith also the front headlamp are moved relative to the body; and fixing the front headlamp in a final mounted position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of mounting a front-end module and at least one front headlamp on a vehicle body of a passenger car, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) holding the front headlamp in at least one preassembly position at the front-end module by way of a holding device, by which the front headlamp is held at the front-end module while being movable relative to the latter, wherein the holding device has at least one joint by which the front headlamp is swivelable in the preassembly position relative to the front-end module,
(b) arranging the front-end module on the vehicle body, together with the front headlamp movably held relative to the front-end module by way of the holding device, the front-end module and, together with the latter, the front headlamp being moved relative to the vehicle body, and
(c) fixing the front headlamp in a final assembly position,
wherein, in step b), at least a first aligning element provided at the front headlamp is caused to interact with a second aligning element assigned to the body of the passenger car, the front headlamp being moved by way of the interacting aligning elements during the motion of the front headlamp relative to the vehicle body into a position relative to the vehicle body and relative to the front-end module.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the position relative to the vehicle body and relative to front-end module is a final assembly position.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein
the holding device holds the front headlamp in the final assembly position.

4. A holding arrangement of a front headlamp on a front-end module of a passenger car, comprising:
a holding device configured to hold the front headlamp in a final assembly position at the front-end module, wherein the holding device is configured to hold the front headlamp in at least one preassembly position at the front-end module in a manner movable relative to the front-end module,
a first aligning element provided at the front headlamp; a second aligning element assigned to a body of the passenger car, wherein the front headlamp is alignable relative to the front-end module and the body of the passenger car by way of the first aligning element interacting with the second aligning element, and
wherein the holding device has at least one joint by which the front headlamp is swivelable in the preassembly position relative to the front-end module.

5. The holding arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the holding device comprises at least one holding element by which the front headlamp is held in the preassembly position at the front-end module while being movable relative to the front-end module.

6. The holding arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the holding device comprises:
at least a first position element provided at the front headlamp;
at least a second positioning element corresponding with the first positioning element and being provided at the front-end module,
wherein motion of the front headlamp in the preassembly position is restricted relative to the front-end module by way of the first and second positioning elements.

Assignees

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag

Inventors

• Kandlbinder Josef
• Leidenberger Manfred

Classifications

• B62D65/16

  the sub-units or components being exterior fittings, e.g. bumpers, lights, wipers {, exhausts} · CPC title

• Y10T29/49622

  Vehicular structural member making · CPC title

• B60Q1/0475 Primary

  with provisions for pre-mounting, for temporary holding the headlamp before or during final mounting · CPC title

• B60Q1/068

  by mechanical means · CPC title