Patent ID: 8404326

Claim:
A panel-forming assembly which is intended to be fixed to a surface of a vehicle or of an aircraft comprising, a panel of foam of expanded thermoplastic material, which is constituted of an agglomeration of balls made of the thermoplastic material, and hooks and/or loops issuing from the panel and intended to cooperate with loops and/or hooks issuing from the said one surface of a vehicle, characterised in that the assembly comprises an intermediate element ( 4 ) comprising a plate ( 5 ) from a face of which project the hooks ( 6 ) and/or the loops issuing from the panel that cooperate with the loops and/or the hooks ( 3 ) issuing from the surface of the vehicle, whilst from a face opposite the said one face of the plate there projects at least one piece ( 7 ) in the form of a fir tree comprising elements in the form of fir-tree branches ( 9 ) defining between them intermediate spaces or interstices (d), which piece is inserted into the panel ( 2 ); the largest dimension (d), measured perpendicularly to the panel, of the interstice formed between two adjacent and successive branches being greater than at least once the average diameter of the balls of the panel so that when the fir-tree-shaped piece is pushed into the panel in order thus to fix to the panel the hooks and/or the loops which are located on the other side of the plate in relation to the fir-tree piece, at least one ball is sandwiched between two adjacent and successive branches of the fir tree in order thus to ensure good fixation of the hooks and/or the loops to the panel.