Patent ID: 9664332
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B60N,B61D,B62D,F16M

Claim:
1. A securing system, comprising: a metal bodywork component having a bodywork recess defined in part by abutment faces on opposite ends of the recess; a sheet metal component bridging the recess and having a central tubular region extending in a longitudinal direction and having an end region at each end of the central tubular region with each end region bent at an angle to the central tubular region at a bending location, the bending location adapting the end regions to an orientation of the abutment faces and each end region having a width greater than a width of the center tubular region and each end region being disposed at least in part within the recess and in abutment with and fixed to the respective abutment faces, wherein the end regions each include two wings extending outwardly from the center tubular region in opposite directions from each other; and a metal elongate reinforcement element being a cylindrical rod extending through an entirety of the central tubular region and the reinforcement element being surrounded and engaged in the central tubular region over a complete periphery of the reinforcement element by the sheet metal component with respect to the longitudinal direction of the reinforcement element.