Reinforcement piece for a bodywork element

• US 20070241588A1
• Filed: 04/17/2006
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Compagnie Plastic Omnium (Burelle)
• Original Assignee: Compagnie Plastic Omnium (Burelle)
• Inventors: Grando, Jerome, Cordebar, Francis
• Application Number:
  US11/404,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20070241588A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/204
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/02 for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/48 combined with, or convertible into, other devices or objects, e.g. bumpers combined with road brushes, bumpers convertible into beds
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0052 using screws, bolts, rivets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0071 using latches, clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2019/1886 Bumper fascias and fastening means therefor

Abstract

A reinforcement piece (10′) for a motor vehicle bodywork element made of plastics material, including an empty space (20) for receiving electrical equipment (22), and means (16) for securing a metal plate (21), preferably by snap-fastening, said means being arranged on the reinforcement piece in such a manner as to hold said plate beneath the empty space.

Claims

1. A reinforcement piece (10′

, 10″

) for a motor vehicle bodywork element made of plastics material, wherein the reinforcement piece includes an empty space (20) for receiving electrical equipment (22), and means (16) for securing a metal plate (21), preferably by snap-fastening, said means being arranged on the reinforcement piece (10′

, 10″

) in such a manner as to hold said plate (21) beneath the empty space (20).

2. A reinforcement piece according to claim 1, including a breakable support member (30) situated in the vicinity of the empty space (20).

3. A reinforcement piece according to claim 2, the breakable support member (30) being shaped in such a manner as to impede putting the electrical equipment (22) into place in the empty space (20) of the reinforcement piece (10′

, 10″

), and in such a manner that breaking said support member (30) releases the empty space (20) provided for the electrical equipment (22).

4. A reinforcement piece according to claim 2, wherein the support member (30) is dimensioned in such a manner as to be breakable manually.

5. A reinforcement piece according to claim 2, in which the support member (30) includes a transverse notch (31) formed at the time of molding.

6. A reinforcement piece according to claim 1, in which the electrical equipment (22) is a GPS antenna.