Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renault S.a.s.

Compagnie Plastic Omnium

Dype Plastique

Renault

Flex-n-gate France

Philippe Jaunasse

Laurent Rocheblave

Cyrille Guyon

Olivier Glaumot

Delphine Marhic

Gabrielle Gauge

A storage bin that is assembled at the rear of a motor vehicle includes a molded part made from polymer material defining, in the mounted position of the bin: an upper supporting rim, a bin bottom situated below the upper supporting rim, and one or more sidewall portions. The molded part further includes two oblique rims extending between the upper supporting rim and the bin bottom. The molded part is traversed by a lateral opening forming a notch from above, the notch being bordered by the two oblique or vertical rims. The lateral opening is closed by an attached wall assembled to the two oblique or vertical rims.

Storage bin for assembly on a motor vehicle body structure

The invention concerns a method for producing a hybrid-structure part of a motor vehicle, comprising shaping of a sheet of metallic material, the provision of a sheet of composite material, application of a layer of connecting material on a face of said metallic material sheet or on a face of said composite material sheet, the shaping of a hybrid element by shaping said composite material sheet to the shape of said metallic material sheet and joining the composite material sheet to the metallic material sheet by means of said connecting material layer, and the production of rigidification elements by overmoulding using a polymer material.

Method for producing a hybrid-structure part of a motor vehicle and corresponding hybrid-structure part

The reactor for a torque converter of the invention comprises a moulded body ( ) able to be mounted around a reactor shaft ( ) via freewheel ( ), being arranged coaxially between an impeller ( ) and a turbine ( ) along one and the same axis (X&mdash;X). The body ( ) of the reactor is moulded in thermoplastic and is overmoulded around an outer ring ( ) that the freewheel ( ) comprises. Advantageously, the body ( ) also comprises an axial thrust bearing ( ) on the same side as the impeller and an axial thrust bearing ( ) on the same side as the turbine, which thrust bearings are moulded with the body. The invention applies to torque converters intended for the automatic transmissions of motor vehicles.

Torque converter reactor

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Paris, France

Philippe Jaunasse