Patent ID: 7681298

Claim:
A method for the manufacture of a component assembly comprising a sheet metal part ( 10 ) and a metal fastener element ( 12 ) attached to it by a riveting process or by a riveting and piercing process or by a press-in process, wherein the sheet metal part is provided with an imprint ( 14 ), wherein the imprint ( 14 ) is produced prior to attachment of the metal fastener element ( 12 ) and consists of a sequence ( 15 ) of regions ( 16 , 18 ) which are raised and recessed relative to one another and wherein, during the attachment of the metal fastener element, it is pressed against the sheet metal part ( 10 ) in such a way that the imprint ( 14 ) of the sheet metal part leads to a complementary shaping of the metal fastener element in a region of the metal fastener element which comes into contact with the imprint ( 14 ).