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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hansjörg Schmieder, Oberkirch-Zusenhofen, DE;
Hans Merkle, Endingen, DE;
Assignee:
Progress-Werk Oberkirch AG, Oberkirch, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 4/701 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 4/701 ;
Abstract
In a method for manufacturing a crossmember for stiffening an instrument panel of a motor vehicle, the crossmember that is to be manufactured having at least two profiled segments, with cross sections differing from one another, arranged in axial prolongation, the smaller-cross-section profiled segment is arranged so as to overlap the larger-cross-section profiled segment over at least a partial length; and in the overlap region, the profiled segments are joined to one another in at least one direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction by way of at least one stabilizing joining element.