Clamping element and component connection having a clamping element

US10314371B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Johann Van Niekerk · Munich, DE
• Maik Hammer · Bruckberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 25, 2016
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2019
• Expiry date: May 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16B2/16
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A component connection has a first component, from which a fixing element protrudes, and a clamping element, which in a tightened rotating position is directly supported relative to the first component directly by way of the fixing element or is indirectly supported relative to the first component by way of a further component. The clamping element has a recess into which the fixing element protrudes from a lower side of the clamping element, wherein a seat portion of the recess is designed in the form of an ascending spiral staircase or thread and at least one free end of the fixing element reaches behind this seat portion in an interlocking manner, such that the at least one free end is seated on the seat portion and when the clamping element is in the tightened rotating position, presses against the seat portion.