ATTACHMENT DEVICE

• US 20150283938A1
• Filed: 03/30/2015
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Hiesl, Gerald, Biegling, Joerg
• Granted Patent: US 10,124,718 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2626 Screw-nut fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/28 for indicating front of vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/302 mounted in the vicinity, e.g. in the middle, of a rear window

Abstract

An attachment device for a light strip on the tail or the nose of a motor vehicle is provided. The light strip is connected in a securely fixed manner at its free ends by attachment bolts. A further attachment bolt and a spring bias a central region of the light strip toward the vehicle, but permit limited movement of the light strip away from the vehicle in response to expansion of the light strip.

Claims

1. An attachment device for a light strip arranged on a tail or nose of a motor vehicle and held between tail lights, the attachment device comprising:

attachment bolts securely fixing opposite free ends of the light strip to a body shell and a further attachment bolt securing a central region of the light strip to the body shell with limited movement toward and away from the body shell.

2. The attachment device of claim 1, wherein the attachment bolts at the free ends of the light strip each comprise a head arranged in a groove-shaped recess (10) of the light strip and each attachment bolt having a threaded foot opposite the head, a nut threaded to the foot of the attachment bolt and urging an interposed disk against the body shell.

3. The attachment device of claim 1, wherein the central attachment bolt comprises a head arranged in a groove-shaped recess of the light strip and a curved spring plate attached on a shoulder of a free foot of the bolt, projecting ends of the spring plate being biased against the body shell while permitting the light strip to move in an X direction toward and away from the body shell.

4. The attachment device of claim 1, wherein the central attachment bolt comprises a head arranged in a groove-shaped recess of the light strip, a coil spring mounted around the bolt, a disk and a nut mounted to the bolt so that the coil spring is held between the disk and the body shell and so that the light strip is biased against the body shell but can move toward and away from the body shell.

5. The attachment device of claim 1, further comprising guide ribs on a surface of the light strip facing the body panel.