Patent ID: 8601669
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: B23P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A sheet metal part ( 10 ) for use with a functional element attached to it by a riveting process, or by a riveting or piercing process or by a press-in process, with the sheet metal part being provided in the region of the attachment of the functional element ( 12 ) with an imprint ( 14 ), wherein the imprint ( 14 ), manufactured prior to the attachment of the functional element ( 12 ), consists of a sequence of regions ( 16 , 18 ) which are raised and recessed relative to one another, the imprint ( 14 ) being so designed that a ring collar ( 20 ) of sheet metal material is present and the sequence ( 15 ) is formed in the region of the transition ( 22 ) of the sheet metal material into the ring collar ( 20 ).