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Granted Patent B2
US 12,415,467 · App. 18/099,961 · Granted Sep 16, 2025

Fastening arrangement, motor vehicle

Inventors: Ralf Menger (Braunschweig, DE); Steffen Kapune (Hannover, DE)
Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
B60R13/0206B60R13/0212
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Patent No.
US 12,415,467
App. No.
18/099,961
Granted
Sep 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fastening arrangement for fastening a roof liner to a body roof, which has a frame opening, of a motor vehicle, with at least one fastening strip which is formed on the roof liner and extends parallel to a longitudinal or transverse side of the frame opening, with at least one elastically deformable clamping device, which is designed to lock the roof liner to the body roof in a form-fitting manner with a latching connector. It is provided that the clamping device has the latching connector, which is floatingly mounted on the roof liner, and that the latching connector, guided through an opening of the body roof, engages behind the body roof in a form-fitting manner.

Claims (18)

1. A fastening arrangement to fasten a roof liner to a body roof, which has a frame opening, of a motor vehicle, the fastening arrangement comprising:

at least one fastening strip arranged on the roof liner and extending substantially parallel to a longitudinal or transverse side of the frame opening; and

at least one elastically deformable clamping device that includes a latching connector, the at least one clamping device being designed to lock the roof liner to the body roof in a form-fitting manner with the latching connector,

wherein the latching connector is floatingly mounted on the roof liner,

wherein the latching connector, which is guided through an opening of the body roof, engages behind the body roof in a form-fitting manner,

wherein the latching connector has two laterally projecting and elastically deformable or movable latching lugs for engaging behind the body roof,

wherein the two latching lugs face away from one another,

wherein a combined maximum width of the two latching lugs is greater than a clear width of the opening in the body roof,

wherein the two latching lugs are designed as spring tongues that extend from one end of the latching connector, and

wherein the latching connector is held in the opening with lateral play in at least one direction perpendicular to a spring direction of the two latching lugs.

2. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one clamping device has a support plate arranged or arrangeable on the roof liner, and wherein the latching connector is floatingly mounted on the support plate.

3. The fastening arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the latching connector has a bearing base with a bearing plate, and wherein the bearing plate is movably mounted in a recess of the support plate.

4. The fastening arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein the bearing plate is mounted in the support plate so as to be movable in all directions in the plane of the bearing plate.

5. The fastening arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein the bearing plate is mounted in the support plate so as to be movable perpendicular to the plane of the bearing plate.

6. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the body roof has a retaining strip that opposes the fastening strip, and wherein the retaining strip is arranged offset from the rest of the body roof essentially by a height of the two latching lugs.

7. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the fastening arrangement has a plurality of frame openings and associated latching connectors by which the roof liner is fastened to the body roof.

8. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the roof liner has a frame edge section in which the latching connector is floatingly mounted directly.

9. A motor vehicle comprising a body roof which has a frame opening for receiving a panoramic roof or a sunroof, wherein a roof liner is fastened to the body roof by the fastening arrangement according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2024
From: MENGER, RALF; KAPUNE, STEFFEN
To: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2020 209 264.8 · Jul 22, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2021069960 · Jul 16, 2021
Related Publication 20230158972A1 · May 25, 2023
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