Arrangement of a fastening clip on a connecting device which is welded onto a motor vehicle component, and method for producing an arrangement of a fastening clip on a connecting device which is welded onto a vehicle component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12281669-B2
Application number	US-202017599398-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2020
Priority date	Mar 29, 2019
Publication date	Apr 22, 2025
Grant date	Apr 22, 2025

Abstract

An arrangement includes a fastening clip, a connecting device, where the connecting device has at least two connecting elements, and a motor vehicle component. The connecting device is welded on the motor vehicle component. The fastening clip engages behind the connecting device in a gap formed by the at least two connecting elements and delimited by the motor vehicle component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An arrangement, comprising:
a fastening clip;
a connecting device, wherein the connecting device comprises at least two connecting elements; and
a motor vehicle component, wherein the at least two connecting elements are each welded on the motor vehicle component and are longitudinally disposed next to one another on the motor vehicle component, wherein a gap runs between the at least two connecting elements, and wherein the at least two connecting elements laterally delimit the gap;
wherein the gap that runs between the at least two connecting elements is delimited by the at least two connecting elements and a surface of the motor vehicle component and wherein the fastening clip engages behind the at least two connecting elements in the gap by a retaining element of the fastening clip that is disposed in the gap;
wherein the fastening clip further comprises a cap-like basic element which is fitted over the connecting device;
wherein the retaining element is an expansion pin which is pluggable into an opening in the cap-like basic element.

2. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two connecting elements are each a sphere.

3. The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the opening runs between at least two of the at least two connecting elements.

4. A method for producing the arrangement according to claim 1 , comprising the step of:
plugging the fastening clip onto the connecting device such that the fastening clip engages behind the at least two connecting elements in the gap by disposing the retaining element of the fastening clip in the gap.

Assignees

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag

Inventors

• Hammer Maik
• Niekerk Johann
• Woellecke Frank

Classifications

• B62D27/06

  readily releasable · CPC title

• F16B5/0664

  at least one of the sheets or plates having integrally formed or integrally connected snap-in-features · CPC title

• F16B5/08

  by means of welds or the like (welding B23K) · CPC title

• F16B11/00

  Connecting constructional elements or machine parts by sticking or pressing them together, e.g. cold pressure welding (non-electric welding in general B23K; methods of using adhesives independently of the form of the surfaces joined C09J5/00) · CPC title

• F16B21/08

  in which the stud, pin, or spigot has a resilient part ({F16B21/065, F16B21/125, F16B21/165, F16B37/043 take precedence}; wall-dowels F16B13/00) · CPC title