Fastening insert for a component made of plastic, foam or composite material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11319982-B2
Application number	US-201716472505-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 14, 2017
Priority date	Dec 23, 2016
Publication date	May 3, 2022
Grant date	May 3, 2022

Abstract

A fastening insert made of plastic with a T-shaped configuration consisting of an insert disc and a hollow cylindrical shaft fastened to the insert disc. The insert disc has a plurality of passage openings arranged off-center, at least one of which has an edge projection extending circumferentially continuously or circumferentially in sections, which is formed as toothing and extends on one side or both sides beyond the respective fastening side of the insert disc. This toothing ensures an additional form-fit connection or fixation of the fastening insert in a preferably fiber-reinforced composite material.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. Fastening insert made of plastic with a T-shaped configuration consisting of an insert disc and a shaft which is fixedly arranged on the insert disc via a fastening section and projects beyond the insert disc on one side or on both sides with a functional section, of which at least the insert disc can be positioned in a foam material or a composite material during a component manufacturing and can be fastened therein by the component manufacturing, in which the insert disc comprises:
a. two fastening sides arranged opposite one another, each forming at least partially an abutment face for the material layer,
b. a plurality of passage openings arranged off-center about the shaft, which connect the fastening sides to one another and of which at least one passage opening has an edge projection extending circumferentially continuously or circumferentially in sections which is formed as toothing and extends on one side or on both sides beyond the respective fastening side of the insert disc,
c. at least one annular circumferential radial outer portion, in which a first plurality of the passage openings, which are formed circularly and/or as a slot, is arranged equally spaced from one another and
d. the annular radial outer portion of the insert disc is arranged in a plane and surrounds a dome-shaped central portion which is domed out of this plane toward the functional section of the shaft, wherein a concave recess of the central portion defines an at least annular radial free space which is arranged radially outwardly with respect to an outer face of the shaft.

2. The fastening insert according to claim 1 , the shaft of which is configured cylindrically or hollow-cylindrically and in the insert disc of which the first plurality of passage openings in the outer portion are arc-shaped slots, the toothing of which extends on both sides beyond the fastening sides of the insert disc.

3. The fastening insert according to claim 1 , in the domed central portion of which a second plurality of the passage openings, which are formed circularly and/or as a slot, is arranged equally spaced from one another.

4. The fastening insert according to claim 3 , the first plurality of the passage openings of which and the second plurality of the passage openings of which each have a toothing projecting on one side, which is oriented opposite to one another.

5. The fastening insert according to claim 3 , in which the domed central portion surrounds an annular web located radially inwards, which ends in the axial direction with a radial outer edge of the domed central portion and defines an annular volume within the domed central portion.

6. The fastening insert according to claim 1 , in which the domed central portion surrounds an annular web located radially inwards, which ends in the axial direction with a radial outer edge of the domed central portion and defines an annular volume within the domed central portion.

7. The fastening insert according to claim 1 , the shaft of which is provided as a bolt or hollow cylinder extending on one side beyond the insert disc.

8. The fastening insert according to claim 7 , the shaft of which is arranged in a central non-circular opening of the insert disc with a fastening end adapted to the form so that an anti-rotation protection is provided between the insert disc and the shaft, and/or the shaft of which comprises radially projecting anchoring features on a radial outer side in order to fasten the fastening insert by means of the shaft in a composite material.

9. The fastening insert according to claim 1 , at least the insert disc of which consists of a plastic which can be irradiated by light.

10. The fastening insert according to claim 1 , the shaft of which is formed closed at an end face adjacent to the insert disc and/or the insert disc of which is formed closed in a central portion adjacent to the shaft.

11. A component consisting of a foam material or a composite material in which a fastening insert according to claim 1 is fixedly arranged within the foam material or the composite material.

12. A connection of at least one first and one second component, of which at least the first component is a component according to claim 11 , in order to connect the at least one first and the one second component by means of a fastening means and the fastening insert in the first component to one another.

13. A manufacturing method of a T-shaped fastening insert according to claim 1 , which comprises the following steps:
a. providing an insert disc of the fastening insert made of plastic, which comprises two fastening sides arranged opposite one another with several passage openings arranged off-center about the shaft, which connect the fastening sides to one another and of which at least one passage opening comprises an edge projection extending circumferentially continuously or circumferentially in sections, which is formed as toothing and extends on one side or on both sides beyond the respective fastening side of the insert disc,
b. providing a shaft of the fastening insert,
c. connecting the insert disc and the shaft captively to form a T-shaped fastening insert.

14. The manufacturing method according to claim 13 , in which the insert disc and the shaft are connected by:
i. mechanical clamping or latching of the shaft in a central opening of the insert disc, or
ii. thermal connecting of the shaft and the insert disc; or
iii. gluing the shaft and the insert disc.

15. The manufacturing method according to claim 13 , in which the insert disc is made of transparent plastic or of plastic which can be irradiated by light.

16. The manufacturing method according to claim 14 , in which the thermal connecting takes place by ultrasonic welding or friction welding.

Assignees

• Boellhoff Verbindungstechnik Gmbh

Inventors

• Stumpf Michael

Classifications

• B29C65/46

  heated by induction · CPC title

• B29C65/08

  using ultrasonic vibrations {(non-plastics element to plastics elements B29C65/645)} · CPC title

• B29C2045/1692

  one layer comprising fibres · CPC title

• F16B33/006

  Non-metallic fasteners using screw-thread · CPC title

• B29C65/1435

  at least passing through one of the parts to be joined, i.e. transmission welding · CPC title