Method for producing a motor vehicle, particularly a car

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11919374-B2
Application number	US-201917282509-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 11, 2019
Priority date	Oct 5, 2018
Publication date	Mar 5, 2024
Grant date	Mar 5, 2024

Abstract

A method for producing a motor vehicle in which a front door and a rear door are mounted on the same side of a bodyshell. Then the doors are removed. The doors are then pre-assembled while the doors are removed. During the pre-assembly of the doors, the front door is fitted with a first side window and with a first trim, the rear door is fitted with a second side window and with a second trim, the second trim is finally positioned relative to the rear door and the second side window is finally positioned relative to the second trim. The doors are then mounted on the side, whereupon the first trim is finally positioned relative to the second trim and the first side window is finally positioned relative to the first trim while the doors are fitted to the side.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for producing a motor vehicle, comprising the steps of:
a) mounting of a front door, wherein a first window frame of the front door defines a first window aperture for a first side window, and a rear door, wherein a second window frame of the rear door defines a second window aperture for a second side window, on a same side of an integral bodyshell of the motor vehicle;
b) following step a), removing the front door and the rear door from the bodyshell;
c) following step b), pre-assembling of the front and rear doors while the front door and the rear door are removed from the bodyshell, wherein the pre-assembling includes:
fitting the front door with the first side window and with a first trim for covering a first area of a B-pillar of the bodyshell;
fitting the rear door with the second side window and with a second trim for covering a second area of the B-pillar of the bodyshell; and
finally positioning the second trim in relation to the rear door and the second side window;

d) following step c), mounting the front door and the rear door on the same side of the bodyshell; and
e) following step d) and while the front door and the rear door are mounted on the same side of the bodyshell:
final positioning of the first trim in relation to the finally positioned second trim of the mounted rear door; and
following the final positioning of the first trim in relation to the finally positioned second trim, aligning and positioning the first side window in relation to the finally positioned first trim to a set position while a tensioning screw is not tightened and then final positioning of the first side window in relation to the finally positioned first trim at the set position by tightening the tensioning screw which fixes the first side window in the set position.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the front door and the rear door are not mounted on the bodyshell again between steps b) and d).

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second side windows and the first and second trims are finally positioned such that following the respective final positionings, respective outer sides of the first and second side windows and the first and second trims facing outwards in a vehicle transverse direction are disposed flush with one another.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second side windows and the first and second trims are finally positioned such that, following the respective final positionings, a respective end edge of the first and second side window facing the respective first and second trims in a vehicle longitudinal direction is disposed without any outward overlap in a vehicle transverse direction relative to the respective first and second trim.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second side windows are each a moveable side window which, after the respective final positioning, is translationally moveable in a vehicle vertical direction in relation to the respective first and second trim.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step a), the front door and the rear door are moved into a respective set position in relation to the bodyshell.

7. The method according to claim 1 , the first and second side windows are supported in a vehicle longitudinal direction on the respective first and second trims by a respective support element that is formed separately from the first and second side windows and the first and second trims.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein each of the respective support elements comprises a guide along which the respective first and second side window is guided in a translational movement.

Assignees

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag

Inventors

• Brenninger Andreas

Classifications

• B60J5/0468 Primary

  Fixation or mounting means specific for door components (fasteners in general F16B21/00) · CPC title

• B60J1/005 Primary

  using positioning means during mounting · CPC title

• B60R13/04

  External} Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices {thereon (fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12) · CPC title

• B62D25/04

  Door pillars {; windshield pillars} · CPC title

• B62D65/06

  the sub-units or components being doors, windows, openable roofs, lids, bonnets, or weather strips or seals therefor {(assembling sealing arrangements with vehicle parts, e.g. doors, windows B60J10/45)} · CPC title