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A functional element arrangement which includes a functional element which is to be mounted on a component, especially but not exclusively on a brittle or non-rigid component made of a material containing cavities or pores, e.g. plastic, wood, metal foams, plastic or metal filled with hollow bodies,

A functional element arrangement which includes a functional element which is to be mounted on a component, especially but not exclusively on a brittle or non-rigid component made of a material containing cavities or pores, e.g. plastic, wood, metal foams, plastic or metal filled with hollow bodies, or another relatively soft material, selectively embodied as a sandwich construction or as a composite material e.g. in the form of a single layered or multilayered structure comprising, for example, two layers of sheet metal or plastic and a core made of one of the above-mentioned materials. The invention is characterized in that it is provided with an auxiliary assembly element which enables the functional element to be blocked using forming techniques when it is mounted on the component in a riveting process or a stamping and riveting process. The invention is further characterized in that, preferably, at least one device is provided to ensure rotational security between the functional element and the component and/or between the auxiliary assembly element and the component. The invention also relates to a functional element, an auxiliary assembly element, an assembled component and various methods for producing assembled components.

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The invention claimed is: 1. A functional element arrangement having a functional element for attachment to a first component, the first component consisting of one of a sandwich construction and a composite construction each having first and second outer skins selected from the group comprising me

The invention claimed is: 1. A functional element arrangement having a functional element for attachment to a first component, the first component consisting of one of a sandwich construction and a composite construction each having first and second outer skins selected from the group comprising metal skins and plastic skins and a core disposed between said first and second skins, said core consisting of a material containing at least one of hollow cavities and pores, plastics, wood, metal foam, metal filled with hollow bodies, and a honeycomb structure, the functional element arrangement further comprising an auxiliary joining part formed as a plate-like part and having a flange that comes into contact with one of said first and second skins of said first component and a central portion in form of a dish like portion fitted in one of a ring recess and a stepped bore of said first component, said functional element being locked to said central portion by technical reshaping of at least one of said functional element and said auxiliary joining part during attachment of said functional element to said first component by means of a riveted connection to the auxiliary joining part, and at least one means providing security against rotation between said functional element and said first component. 2. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, said first component being pre-holed by one of machining primary forming. 3. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said first component has first and second opposite sides and said functional element and said auxiliary joining part are joined together and to said first component coming from said opposite sides of said first component. 4. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said functional element has a flange and said flange of said functional element and said flange of said auxiliary joining part are adapted to trap said first component between them. 5. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said functional element and said auxiliary joining part are adapted to be joined together and to said first component at one side of said first component. 6. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, said functional element being provided with a head section and a shaft section and having a rivet section for said rivet connection to said auxiliary joining part, said rivet section being provided at one of said head section and a transition from said head section to said shaft. 7. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 6, said shaft section being realized as a thread carrier for the attachment of a further component to said first component. 8. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 6, said shaft section being formed as a guide part for a further component. 9. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 6, said shaft section being formed as a clip mount. 10. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 6, said head section having a flange in a region of a transition from said shaft section to said head section, said flange having a surface remote from said shaft section forming a contact surface adapted to contact said first component and said head section having an end remote from the shaft section forming said rivet section. 11. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 10, wherein said head section consists of a flange, said rivet section and also an intermediate step lying between said flange and said rivet section. 12. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 11, wherein said flange has a contact surface for contacting said first component and wherein said means providing security against rotation comprise features provided in the region of at least one of said contact surface, a transition from said flange to said intermediate step and said intermediate step. 13. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 11, wherein said intermediate step merges via a ring shoulder into said rivet section, and said means providing security against rotation are features provided in the region between the intermediate step and the rivet section, at least one of said ring shoulder, a transition of said ring shoulder into said rivet section and at said rivet section itself. 14. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 6, said head section having a free end remote from said shaft section, a flange in the region of said free end forming a contact surface at which the component comes into contact and being formed in the region of the transition from the head section into the shaft section a the riveted connection to the auxiliary joining part, there being an intermediate step between said flange and said shaft section. 15. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 14, wherein said means providing security against rotation are features provided at at least one of said contact surface, a transition from said flange into said intermediate step and said intermediate step. 16. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 14, wherein said intermediate step merges via a ring shoulder into the shaft section and wherein said means providing security against rotation are features provided at at least one of said ring shoulder, a transition of said ring shoulder into said rivet section and at said or rivet section. 17. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, said functional element being formed as one of a hollow body element, a nut element, a guide sleeve and a mount for a plug-in part. 18. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 17, wherein said hollow body element has a head section and one of a rivet section and a forming section, and wherein said head section is subdivided into a flange and an intermediate step, with said flange forming a contact surface against which said first component comes into contact and being arranged in the region of an end of said intermediate step remote from said rivet section or said forming section. 19. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 18, wherein features providing security against rotation are provided in the region of at least one of said contact surface and at a transition from said contact surface into said intermediate step and at said intermediate step. 20. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 18, wherein said intermediate step merges via a ring shoulder into one of said rivet section or said forming section, and wherein said means providing security against rotation are features provided on at least one of said ring shoulder, at a transition to said rivet section and at at least one of said rivet section and said internal forming section. 21. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 17, wherein said hollow body element has a head section and one of a rivet section and an internal forming section, wherein said head section has a jacket surface without a flange, with said jacket surface merging via a contact surface into said one of said rivet section and said internal forming section, with said auxiliary joining part being in contact with said contact surface in the installed state, and said auxiliary joining part having a contact surface against which said first component comes into contact. 22. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 21, wherein said means providing security against rotation comprises features provided at said jacket surface of said head section. 23. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 21, wherein said head section merges via a ring shoulder into said rivet section and wherein said means providing security against rotation comprises features provided in the region of at least one of said ring shoulder, at a transition from said ring shoulder into said rivet section and at said rivet section. 24. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 17, wherein said hollow body element has one of a rivet section and a forming section and wherein said means providing security against rotation comprises features provided at one of said rivet section and said internal forming section. 25. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 17, wherein said auxiliary joining part has a tubular section adjoining and disposed within said flange, wherein said hollow body element fits into the tubular section and has in its end region oblique noses which, starting from a first end of said hollow body element, extend along said hollow body element in a direction towards a second end thereof and thereby reduce in their radial extent, said noses being adapted to deform said tube section in its end region and also said first component during introduction, and said hollow body element being adapted to be broadened at its other end for said riveted connection to said auxiliary joining part. 26. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said auxiliary joining part is a sheet metal part. 27. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 26, wherein said sheet metal part is provided with at least one of a metallic coating and a plastic coating. 28. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said auxiliary joining part is one of a plastic component and a fibre reinforced plastic component. 29. The functional element arrangement of claim 28, wherein said auxiliary joining part is provided with a metallic coating. 30. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 29, wherein said coating consists of a material which is corrosion resistant with respect to a material or materials of said first component and with respect to the material of one of said functional element and a coating provided thereon and wherein said material of said functional element and of any coating provided thereon is corrosion resistant with respect to said material or materials of said first component. 31. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said auxiliary joining part has a marginal region defining said flange and wherein said central portion is a dished portion adapted to be arranged in one of a ring recess and a stepped bore of said first component. 32. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 31, wherein said dished portion has a base and said base is pre-holed to receive a rivet section of said functional element. 33. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 31, wherein said dished portion has a base, with said base not being pre-holed, but being piercable during the attachment of the functional element by one of a pierce and rivet section of said functional element and a preceding hole punch. 34. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said auxiliary joining part is formed as a flat disc having a marginal region forming said flange and a central region for said riveted connection to said functional element. 35. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein at least one of said functional element and said auxiliary joining part is provided with an adhesive at least one surface region which, on attachment to said first component, enters into contact with at least one of said first component and the other respective one of said functional element and said auxiliary joining part. 36. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 35, wherein said adhesive is a dry adhesive which serves for an adhesive bond on the exertion of pressure. 37. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 35, wherein said adhesive forms said means for a providing security against rotation. 38. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for providing a security against rotation comprise features of shape in the form of at least one of noses and recesses which are provided at at least one of said functional element and said auxiliary joining part and which can be respectively pressed into said first component during the attachment of said functional element to said first component and receive material pressed out of said first component. 39. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 38, wherein said functional element is provided with a flange which forms a contact surface against which said first component comes into contact and wherein said means for providing security against rotation is formed by noses which are provided on at least one of said flange of said functional element, transition from said flange into said functional element and at said flange of said auxiliary joining part. 40. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 1, wherein said auxiliary joining part is a plate-like part, having an edge region forming said flange against which said first component comes into contact and a dished central region, with said edge region being initially conically shaped and diverging in the direction of said dished central region and said dished central region being formed to receive a rivet section of said functional element which can be received into said dished central region from a side of said auxiliary joining part formed by said edge region, and wherein said riveted connection results in said edge region being pressed flat and said dished central region being reshaped. 41. The functional element arrangement in accordance with claim 40, wherein said edge region of the plate-like part is interrupted at a plurality of points.