Patent ID: 6301835
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
A one-piece door module for motor vehicles comprising a one-piece self-supporting metal carrier panel and thereon, as integral constituents, plastic functional components made of a thermoplastic material selected from the group consisting of plastics based on(a) polypropylene,(b) polyamide,(c) polyester,(d) polyphenylene oxide,(e) polyoxymethylene,(f) polyphenylene sulfide,(g) polyurethane,(h) polycarbonate,(i) blends made from polyester with acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymers and(j) blends made from polyester with acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate graft polymersand wherein the thermoplastic material is reinforced with glass fibers or carbon fibers and said plastic functional components are connected securely and permanently to the metal carrier panel in one operation and wherein said self-supporting carrier panel has a three-dimensional shape which is essentially matched to a shape of a motor vehicle door into which it is to be incorporated and wherein said plastic functional components include window lifter profiles in the folded-out state formed around and in proximity with said carrier panel.