Assembly unit including an inside door steel sheet and a carrier element

• US 20060248834A1
• Filed: 04/11/2006
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ROOF SYSTEMS GERMANY GmbH (CIE Automotive SA)
• Original Assignee: ROOF SYSTEMS GERMANY GmbH (CIE Automotive SA)
• Inventors: Cheramy, Laurent, Kleen, Norbert, Meurou, Francois-Paul, Waroch, Markus, Heyer, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/401,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20060248834A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/455
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/0416 Assembly panels to be installed in doors as a module with components, e.g. lock or window lifter, attached thereto

Abstract

An assembly unit includes an inside door steel sheet and a carrier element that is fastened to the inside door steel sheet. The carrier element has at least one edge hung on the inside door steel sheet with a latching connection or a hook connection.

Claims

1. An assembly unit comprising:

an inside door steel sheet; and

a carrier element fastened to the inside door steel sheet, wherein the carrier element has at least one edge hung on the inside door steel sheet with one of a latching connection and a hook connection.

2. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the carrier element has a groove at the at least one edge, and wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises at least one hook provided on the inside door steel sheet that engages in the groove.

3. The assembly unit according to claim 2 wherein the groove is formed between a body of the carrier element and a rib protruding from the body.

4. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises at least one latching lug provided at the at least one edge of the carrier element that encompasses an edge of the inside door steel sheet.

5. The assembly unit according to claim 4 wherein the edge of the inside door steel sheet is provided with a recess, a latching portion of the at least one latching lug reaching through the recess.

6. The assembly unit according to claim 5 wherein the edge of the inside door steel sheet is configured to be planar and the carrier element has an indentation in which the latching portion of the at least one latching lug comes to lie.

7. The assembly unit according to claim 5 wherein the edge of the inside door steel sheet is configured to be curved, so that in a region of the recess there is formed a free space between the inside door steel sheet and the carrier element.

8. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises at least one articulation lug provided on the inside door steel sheet that engages in a counter bearing at the at least one edge of the carrier element.

9. The assembly unit according to claim 8 wherein the at least one articulation lug has a cross-section that is shaped like a segment of a circle.

10. The assembly unit according to claim 9 wherein the counter bearing defines a guideway for the at least one articulation lug.

11. The assembly unit according to claim 8 wherein the counter bearing laterally encompasses the at least one articulation lug.

12. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises at least one snap-on hook and wherein the inside door steel sheet includes the at least one snap-on hook that encompasses a retaining protrusion that is arranged at the at least one edge of the carrier element.

13. The assembly unit according to claim 12 wherein the at least one snap-on hook comprises a bent-off latching portion that engages in a groove on the retaining protrusion.

14. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises at least one hook provided at the at least one edge of the carrier element that reaches behind a retaining lug on the inside door steel sheet.

15. The assembly unit according to claim 14 wherein an obliquely extending sealing portion on the inside door steel sheet adjoins the retaining lug.

16. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises a plurality of obliquely extending lugs provided on one of the inside door steel sheet and carrier element, and receiving openings for the plurality of obliquely extending lugs provided on the other of the inside door steel sheet and carrier element.

17. The assembly unit according to claim 16 wherein the plurality of obliquely extending lugs is arranged along an outer circumference of the carrier element.

18. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises a plurality of lugs that protrude from the at least one edge of the carrier element in opposite directions, the plurality of lugs engaging sides on the inside door steel sheet facing away from each other.

19. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection comprises a plurality of lugs that obliquely protrude from the at least one edge of the carrier element, and wherein the inside door steel sheet has a plurality of recesses associated to the plurality of lugs, the plurality of recesses being arranged in an obliquely extending portion of the inside door steel sheet.

20. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the carrier element is made of plastic.

21. The assembly unit according to claim 1 including a seal arranged between the at least one edge of the carrier element and the inside door steel sheet.

22. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection is arranged at an upper edge of the carrier element.

23. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection is arranged at one of a front and a rear edge of the carrier element.

24. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the one of the latching connection and the hook connection is arranged at a lower edge of the carrier element.

25. The assembly unit according to claim 1 including screws that connect the carrier element with the inside door steel sheet.

26. The assembly unit according to claim 1 wherein the carrier element is shifted relative to the inside door steel sheet during installation.

27. The assembly unit according to claim 26 wherein the carrier element is shifted in the vertical direction.

28. The assembly unit according to claim 26 wherein the carrier element is shifted in a horizontal direction.