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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Edgar Edward Donabedian, Livonia, MI (US);
Darrin Neil Wagner, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Mark Keller, Birmingham, MI (US);
Bruno M. Barthelemy, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle roof frame includes an adhering structure having an adhesive carrier and an expanding structural adhesive coupled to at least a portion of an outer surface of the adhesive carrier. The expanding structural adhesive includes an installation state and a structural state, and the structural state has a larger volume than the installation state. The vehicle roof frame also includes a plurality of vehicle frame members that cooperate to form a frame joint and a joint cavity defined within the frame joint. The adhering structure is disposed within the joint cavity and the adhesive carrier and the expanding structural adhesive in the structural state substantially occupies the joint cavity and fixably couples the plurality of framing members such that the frame joint is free of supplemental mechanical connections proximate the joint cavity.