Method for mounting adjustable mechanism for motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9517589-B2
Application number	US-201414451306-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 4, 2014
Priority date	Aug 8, 2003
Publication date	Dec 13, 2016
Grant date	Dec 13, 2016

Abstract

An adjustable mechanism for a motor vehicle is used to adjust an adjustable element in a motor vehicle, especially a seating part. The mechanism includes a spindle nut comprising an axis, the spindle nut co-operating with a thread spindle and comprising external toothing on the external surface thereof which is in contact with an additional drive element. The external toothing of the spindle nut is formed by recesses in the external surface of the spindle nut which are inwardly turned in a radial manner, the teeth depths thereof diminishing in the direction of at least one axial end of the spindle nut.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for mounting an adjustable mechanism mounted in a gearbox housing for a motor vehicle, the method comprising:
engaging a housing part with a further housing assembly unit along an installation axis, and
melting an end section of the housing part with the further housing assembly unit, and tensioning the housing part and the further housing assembly unit elastically against one another along the installation axis during the melting such that the housing part and the further housing assembly unit are settled with respect to each other along the installation axis during the melting.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a tension device engaging the housing part and/or the further housing assembly unit in order to tension the housing part and the further housing assembly unit relative to one another.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the tension device engages on an associated element of the gearbox housing with the interposition of an elastic element.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the housing part and the further housing assembly are tensioned relative to one another in a direction which has a direction component extending transversely or perpendicularly to the installation axis.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the further housing assembly unit comprises a second housing part, and wherein the housing part and the second housing part are fixed directly one against the other.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the further housing assembly unit is housed between the housing part and a second housing part, the method further comprising engaging whereby the two housing parts with the housing assembly unit and fixing them to the housing assembly unit such that material of at least one of the two housing parts and of the housing assembly unit is fused together, wherein the two housing parts are tensioned relative to each other wherein at least one of the two housing parts is also tensioned relative to the further housing assembly unit.

7. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising tensioning the two housing parts against one another along the installation axis, relative to one another along a direction which has a direction component perpendicular to the installation axis, or relative to each other along a direction extending perpendicular to the installation axis.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the further housing assembly unit is formed by two housing elements which are opposite one another and oriented perpendicular to the two housing parts.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the housing part comprises a housing plate.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein during melting of the material the at least one housing part settles relative to the further housing assembly unit, wherein the settling occurs in a direction of an elastic pretension.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the material is melted by a laser, wherein non-melting areas of the housing are made from material which is permeable to a laser beam of the laser.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a duration of the melting process is controlled from a predeterminable criterion.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the duration of the melting process is controlled in dependence on a settling of the at least one housing part, particularly in dependence on a speed or the dynamics of the settling, or on the extent of the settling, or in dependence on a change in a reaction force during tensioning of the housing part relative to the further housing assembly unit.

14. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the duration of the melting process is fixed at a start of the melting process.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a clearance is defined between the housing part and the further housing assembly unit, the clearance configured to accommodate a melted mass formed by the melting of the material.

16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the clearance is defined by a push-in area.

17. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising monitoring a quality of a connection between the housing part and the further housing assembly unit during the melting process with respect to movement of the housing part relative to the further housing assembly unit.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the melting is accomplished by using a laser, wherein the laser is regulated in dependence on the speed of the settling.

19. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the housing part and the further housing assembly unit comprise plastics.

Assignees

• Brose Fahrzeugteile

Inventors

• Hoffmann Matthias
• Bauersachs Andrea
• Prause Andreas

Classifications

• B60N2/067 Primary

  by linear actuators, e.g. linear screw mechanisms · CPC title

• B29K2105/25

  Solid · CPC title

• F16H55/22

  for transmissions with crossing shafts, especially worms, worm-gears · CPC title

• B60N2/2231

  Worm and worm gear articulations · CPC title

• Y10T74/18664

  Shaft moves through rotary drive means · CPC title