Patent ID: 6810978
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
An assembly, comprising:(a) a mounted component and a mounting component; (b) wherein said mounted component and said mounting component comprise one or more complimentary location-structure pairs each of which comprises a first locating structure which said mounted component comprises and a second locating structure which said mounting component comprises which are complimentary to one another and are positioned relative to one another in such a manner to limit relative movement between said mounted component and said mounting component; (c) wherein one or more of said locating structures of said complimentary locating-structure pairs comprises a locating point insert that is integrally molded or cast into surrounding parent material of said locating structure that comprises it; (d) wherein one or more of said locating-point inserts defines an outer abutment-surface that is part of an outer surface of said locating-structure that comprises it; (e) wherein one or more of said complimentary locating-structure pairs that comprises a locating-point insert is so constructed and arranged that relative movement between said locating structures thereof is limited in at least one direction by abutment between said outer abutment-surface of said locating-point insert and said locating structure that is complementary to said locating structure that comprises said locating-point insert; (f) wherein each of said locating-point inserts that defines one of said outer-abutment surfaces is constructed of one or more materials at least one of which is harder, more wear-resistant, stiffer, and/or stronger than said parent material that it is integrally molded or cast into; (g) wherein one or more of said locating-point inserts comprises one or more sheet-body portions; (h) wherein one or more of said locating-point inserts that comprises one or more sheet-body portions is one of said one or more locating-point inserts that defines one of said outer abutment-surfaces of said locating structure within parent material of which it is integrally molded; and (i) wherein one or more of said locating-point inserts that comprises one or more sheet-body portions and that defines one or more of said outer abutment-surfaces is constructed and positioned within said parent material within which it is integrally molded or cast in such a manner that a major surface of one of said sheet body portions forms at least part of one of said outer abutment-surfaces defined by said locating-point insert.