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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
May. 27, 2005
Wolfgang Becker, Ulm, DE;
Alfred Fuchs, Rottenburg, DE;
Klaus Goth, Sindelfingen, DE;
Markus Knoeller, Nagold, DE;
Dirk Lindenau, Stuttgart, DE;
Claus-dieter Reiniger, Remshalden, DE;
Daniel Zauner, Ballendorf, DE;
Wolfgang Becker, Ulm, DE;
Alfred Fuchs, Rottenburg, DE;
Klaus Goth, Sindelfingen, DE;
Markus Knoeller, Nagold, DE;
Dirk Lindenau, Stuttgart, DE;
Claus-Dieter Reiniger, Remshalden, DE;
Daniel Zauner, Ballendorf, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The application of anti-corrosion base coating by cataphoretic painting (KTL) is well known in manufacturing automobile body parts. However the cataphoretic paint can penetrate only incompletely or possibly not at all into the gap in the contact areas of the components joined to each other. This type of gap is conventionally scaled following cataphoretic painting, in order to ensure corrosion protection for the entire assembly. The present invention makes it possible to dispense with the sealing in the production of an assembly of joined conductive components and nevertheless to ensure a sufficient corrosion protection. By introducing topographic changes in the components projecting from their surface in the known contact areas and then joining these components, they are spaced apart by the projecting topographic changes in such a manner that during cataphoretic painting the paint wets the entire surface of the assembly.