Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Assembling or joining
Reexamination Certificate
2003-07-08
2010-02-09
Hong, John C (Department: 3726)
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Assembling or joining
C029S283500
Reexamination Certificate
active
07657989
ABSTRACT:
Method for the attachment of a functional element having a head end and optionally a shaft part, in particular a fastener element, to a sheet metal part, optionally in liquid-tight and/or gas-tight form, wherein the functional element is pressed against the sheet metal part supported by a die button having a shaping space and sheet metal material is pressed by means of at least one movably mounted shaped part, and preferably by means of at least two such shaped parts of the die button, and by a radially inwardly directed movement of the or each shaped part, into an undercut of the functional element, with the or each shaped part forming a respective wall region of the shaping space, wherein the or each shaped part is initially radially supported by an envelope surface region of an abutment envelope and is prevented from a radially inwardly directed movement so long until the sheet metal material is drawn by the head end of the functional element into the shaping space for the formation of a pronounced recess at least largely surrounding the head end and is only then released by an axial movement of the envelope surface region of the abutment element past the or each shaped part for the radial movement for the pressing of the sheet metal material into the undercut.
Hershkovitz Abraham
Hershkovitz & Associates LLC
Hong John C
Profil Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Rzucidlo Eugene C.
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