Transverse-member module for a motor-vehicle

US8474902B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• LANXESS Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thomas MALEK · Pulheim, DE
• Boris Koch · Wermelskirchen, DE
• Ulrich Dajek · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 2, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D29/004
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a transverse-member motor-vehicle module for receiving the instrument panel and reinforcing the bodywork for the direct connection of the two A-pillars of a motor vehicle, composed of a transverse member with a steering-column retainer, where the transverse-member module, i.e. not only the transverse member but also the steering-column retainer, are manufactured using a metal-plastic-composite design (hybrid technology), and these are composed of at least one main body and of at least one first thermoplastic part and one second thermoplastic part, where these have been securely bonded via injection molding firstly to the main body and simultaneously the various plastics parts have been bonded to one another, where the two plastics parts are composed of different plastics materials and these are injected in the bi-injection molding process, where they fuse with one another when they encounter one another.