Patent ID: 8025827

Claim:
Method of connecting a plastic workpiece ( 10 ) to a further workpiece ( 12 ), comprising the following steps: providing a plastic workpiece ( 10 ) and a further workpiece ( 12 ), placing the further workpiece ( 12 ) against the plastic workpiece ( 10 ), providing a connecting element ( 11 ) on a surface ( 14 ) of the plastic workpiece ( 10 ), this surface ( 14 ) being opposite the surface ( 13 ) against which the further workpiece ( 12 ) bears, producing a recess ( 17 ) in the further workpiece ( 12 ), this recess ( 17 ) being provided on the surface bearing against the plastic workpiece ( 10 ), wherein the recess ( 17 ) is incorporated as a bore in the further workpiece ( 12 ) and wherein the bore is directed through the connecting element ( 11 ) and the plastic workpiece ( 10 ) into the further workpiece ( 12 ) heating the connecting element ( 11 ), so that the material of the connecting element ( 11 ) is plasticized, and pressing plasticized material into the recess ( 17 ).