Method of assembling a door

US7231717B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Meritor Light Vehicle Systems - France · FR

Inventors

• Georg Wurm · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Daniel Drewniok · Frankfurt, DE
• Harald Koellner · Schongau, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Strauss · Braunschweig, DE
• Kenneth W. Schang · Plymouth, US
• Arnd Herwig · Oakland Charter Township, US
• Simon Dobson · Folkestone, GB
• Rainer Grimm · Frankfurt, DE
• Gregory Keyes · Birmingham, GB
• Patrick Hof · Marburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 19, 2007
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49904
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of assembling of a door comprising the steps of providing a door inner panel having an outer face and an inner face, at least one functional component of the door, an anti intrusion beam and a door outer panel. The functional component is assembled onto and towards the outer face. The anti intrusion beam is assembled towards the outer face prior to assembling the door outer panel towards the outer face. Fixing means secure the door inner panel, the functional component, the anti intrusion beam and the door outer panel relative to each other.