Light metal casting

US5514481A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Robert Spies · Moss Landing, US
• Norbert Enning · Köngen, DE
• Heinrich Timm · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 5, 1993
• Grant date: May 7, 1996
• Expiry date: Nov 5, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/12375
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A light metal casting for use in combination with a metal holder for mounting heavy subassemblies, such as doors or the like, to a light metal frame member of a light metal vehicle body framework, including a first, vertical leg portion having an outward facing surface to which a metal holder is mounted, and a second, inwardly-extending horizontal leg portion connected at an upper end of the first leg portion. The second leg portion is provided with a vertical through-hole oriented transversely to its surface, and, at the edge of the opening which faces the first leg, an upstanding tongue member is formed integrally on the second leg which points away from the first leg and can be bent over the holder. In order to fasten the holder to the light metal casting, the holder is first placed against the outer side of the vertical first leg, whereupon the tongue is bent in the direction of this outer side of the first leg and turned over the holding part until it presses the latter against the outer side of the first leg to hold it fast against the light metal casting. The holding part can thus be mounted on the light metal casting in a simple manner and very quickly, since it is only nec…