Adhesive retainer for fixing to a structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016037921-A1
Application number	US-201514817929-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 4, 2015
Priority date	Aug 6, 2014
Publication date	Feb 11, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An adhesive retainer for fixing to a structure has at least one adhesive foot which has a supporting base region formed on the adhesive foot and is provided with receiving openings which extend like capillaries through the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot. The receiving openings are configured to form an integral bond with the structure such that when the adhesive foot is placed on the structure covered for this purpose with a liquid, solidifiable bonding substance, the receiving openings receive bonding substance due to capillary ascension.

First claim

1 . An adhesive retainer for fixing to a structure with at least one adhesive foot which has a supporting base region formed on the adhesive foot and is provided with receiving openings which extend like capillaries through the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot.

2 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving openings are configured to form an integral bond with the structure, such that when the adhesive foot is placed on the structure, which is covered for this purpose with a liquid, solidifiable bonding substance, the receiving openings receive bonding substance due to capillary ascension.

3 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 2 , wherein the receiving openings are configured to receive lacquer and/or paint and/or adhesive and/or synthetic resin as the liquid bonding substance.

4 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein the supporting base region is substantially planar.

5 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving openings extend substantially vertically from the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot.

6 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein the adhesive retainer comprises plastics material.

7 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein the adhesive retainer is formed in one piece.

8 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein the supporting base region of the at least one adhesive foot is formed with three or more projecting spacer pins.

9 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein the supporting base region of the at least one adhesive foot is formed with at least one projecting fixing pin.

10 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein two adhesive feet are formed which can be coupled together by a connection element.

11 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , wherein at least some of the receiving openings extend through the at least one adhesive foot.

12 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 1 , furthermore with a retaining device which is attached to the at least one adhesive foot and is configured to join the adhesive retainer to a component.

13 . The adhesive retainer according to claim 12 , wherein the retaining device is attached to a side of the adhesive foot opposite the supporting base region.

14 . A method for fixing an adhesive retainer to a structure, comprising:
placing a supporting base region of an adhesive foot of an adhesive retainer on the structure covered with a liquid, solidifiable bonding substance; wetting the supporting base region of the adhesive foot with the liquid bonding substance and receiving the liquid bonding substance in receiving openings extending like capillaries through the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot; and solidifying the liquid bonding substance at least in the region of the applied adhesive foot.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein the liquid, solidifiable bonding substance comprises lacquer and/or paint and/or adhesive and/or synthetic resin.

16 . The method according to claim 15 , wherein the liquid, solidifiable bonding substance is a synthetic resin and the solidification step comprises curing using an autoclave.

17 . The method according to claim 16 , further comprising fixing the adhesive foot on the structure by at least one fixing needle.

18 . The method according to claim 16 , further comprising covering the structure with a film and evacuating the covered structure through at least some of the receiving openings in the adhesive foot.

Assignees

• Airbus Operations Gmbh

Inventors

• Benthien Hermann
• Poppe Andreas

Classifications

• H02G3/305

  Mounting by adhesive material · CPC title

• F16B11/006 Primary

  by gluing (gluing of plastics material B29C65/48) · CPC title

• A47B91/08 Primary

  connected to the floor · CPC title