IP Library Granted Patent US 7,584,526
Granted Patent B2
US 7,584,526 · App. 11/449,842 · Granted Sep 8, 2009

Grip for a motor vehicle

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Patent No.
US 7,584,526
App. No.
11/449,842
Granted
Sep 8, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A grip consists of two grip shells which can be connected with one another by gluing and in which a supporting carrier is arranged. The supporting carrier has connection elements on the end side for a fastening to a vehicle structure.

Claims (19)

1. A holding grip for a motor vehicle, comprising:

two half shells which are connectable with one another and have an interiorally situated supporting carrier with the holding grip being connectable with a vehicle structure, wherein that the supporting carrier is arranged between the two plastic half shells and the two half shells have cross sections which are substantially semicircular, the supporting carrier having an I-shaped cross-sectional profile and, at one free end thereof, said supporting carrier has a projecting connection element with fastening bores which project from the shells and, at another end thereof facing away from the connection element, has a further connection element arranged inside the shells and has a threaded bore for receiving a screwing device which fasten to the vehicle structure.

2. The holding grip according to claim 1 , wherein:

the two half shells each have connection edges; and

the I-shaped cross-section of the supporting carrier has flanges facing towards the connection edges of the shells, a web of the I-shaped cross-section extends in a common plane with the connecting edges, and interior surfaces of the shells are supported on edges of the flanges.

3. The holding grip according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle structure is a transmission tunnel.

4. The holding grip according to claim 2 , wherein the connecting edges are arranged to overlap such that the connecting edges of one of the shells have a shoulder in which opposite connecting edges of the other of the shells are arranged, and the shells are mutually connected in an area of the connecting edges with each having an indentation for receiving a covering seam.

5. The holding grip according to claim 1 , wherein at least one welding dome is arranged on an interior surface of one of said two half shells and upon which the supporting carrier is hot-rivetingly fastened.

6. The holding grip according to claim 1 , wherein at least one centering bush is molded to an interior surface of one of the shells, and a centering pin of the other of the shells is insertable into the centering bush mutual alignment of the shells.

7. The holding grip according to claim 6 , wherein the centering pin has the cross-shaped cross-section.

8. The holding grip according to claim 1 , wherein the further connection element is arranged so to fill out a space between the two shells, and an insertion part with a threaded bore is held between webs of the further connection element.

9. The holding grip according to claim 1 , wherein the projecting connection element has at least the two continuous bores for fastening screws which extend transversely to the holding grip in its installed position, and the projecting connection element and the screws are covered by a cap adjoining the shells.

10. The holding grip according to claim 4 , wherein at least one welding dome is arranged on an interior surface of one of said two half shells and upon which the supporting carrier is hot-rivetingly fastened.

11. The holding grip according to claim 4 , wherein at least one centering bush is molded to an interior surface of one of the shells, and a centering pin of the other of the shells is insertable into the centering bush mutual alignment of the shells.

12. The holding grip according to claim 11 , wherein the centering pin has the cross-shaped cross-section.

13. The holding grip according to claim 4 , wherein the further connection element is arranged so to fill out a space between the two shells, and an insertion part with a threaded bore is held between webs of the sleeve-type connection element.

14. The holding grip according to claim 4 , wherein the projecting connection element has at least the two continuous bores for fastening screws which extend transversely to the holding grip in its installed position, and the projecting connection element and the screws are covered by a cap adjoining the shells.

15. The holding grip according to claim 7 , wherein the further connection element is arranged so to fill out a space between the two shells, and an insertion part with a threaded bore is held between webs of the further connection element.

16. The holding grip according to claim 15 , wherein the projecting connection element has at least the two continuous bores for fastening screws which extend transversely to the holding grip in its installed position, and the projecting connection element and the screws are covered by a cap adjoining the shells.

Assignments (4)
MERGER Recorded Nov 2, 2010
From: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
Reel/Frame 025227/0699 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 2, 2010
From: PORSCHE ZWISCHENHOLDING GMBH
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 025227/0747 →
MERGER Recorded Jun 30, 2008
From: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (COMPANY NUMBER 722287)
Reel/Frame 021184/0926 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 3, 2006
From: PANDURA, MICHAEL
To: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 018443/0676 →