Daimler Chrysler Ag

Rehau Ag + Co.

Dynamit Nobel Kunststoff Gmbh

Christian Lemm

Anton Sautner

Horst Kleiner

Dietmar Preissler

Josef Oravetz

Andreas Otto

Carola Fischer

Gerhard Müller

Juergen Kipar

A device, having a plastic molded part (), in particular an add-on part and/or trim part for a motor vehicle, comprises a cover () for closing an opening () in a wall () of the plastic molded part (). The cover () has a first rim () and a second rim (), substantially opposite of the first rim (), wherein the cover () has at least one retaining hook (), which engages behind the opening () in the closed position of the cover (), on the inner side () facing the opening () in the region of the first rim (), and the cover () further has at least one detent element () on the inner side () in the region of the second rim (), said detent element being latched in the closed position of the cover () to at least one detent counter element (), fixedly attached to the wall (). The cover () has at least one further additional detent element () on the inner side () in the region of the first rim (), said element interacting with at least one additional detent counter element () at the wall (), so that the cover () is held in the closed position at least substantially without prestress with respect to the opening ().

Device having a plastic molded part and a cover

A bolt-on part, especially a front or rear bumper, of a motor vehicle, that can be exposed especially in its outer wall to impact energy and is mounted pointwise on a structural member of a motor vehicle, with the connection between the structural member and the bolt-on part consisting of pin-shaped fastening devices on one of the two parts to be connected and recesses in the other of the two parts, is intended to dissipate as much deformation energy as possible by coming loose from the structural member under the influence of an impact in the lengthwise direction of the bolt-on part. For this purpose, at least one of the recesses in each case is closed circumferentially and is located at the end furthest away in the direction of action from the point where the impact energy is applied. The other recesses are open circumferentially and are in the form of grooves inclined at less than .alpha.=90.degree. to the acting direction of the impact energy in such fashion that the bolt-on part that deforms under the impact energy can come loose from the structural member without deformation of the structural member, at the recesses that are formed as grooves.

Bolt-on part, especially a bumper of a motor vehicle

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Aidlingen, Germany

Christian Lemm