摘要 |
A self-tapping screw (14) with a shank (16), having a head (18) on its end, which shank (16) has three axial regions, namely a first region enclosing a head (18), which forms a retaining region provided with a thread, a second region, originating from the other end of the shank (16), which forms a guide region which is coaxial with respect to the first region and has a maximum diameter which is smaller than the diameter of the first region, and a third region, located between the first and second regions, which forms an expansion section (24) tapering essentially conically towards the second region, and a partial thread, which consists of a plurality of partial thread pitches, only partially forming the depth of the thread, and which is connected to the thread of the first region and has the same pitch as that region, the expansion section (24) having two mutually opposite circumferential segments, the one segment of which has a greater radial distance from the screw axis at all points than the other segment, and the partial thread being constructed essentially only in the first segment. <IMAGE> |