US3708850A - Means for securing a body to a panel - Google Patents

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US3708850A
US3708850A US00032871A US3708850DA US3708850A US 3708850 A US3708850 A US 3708850A US 00032871 A US00032871 A US 00032871A US 3708850D A US3708850D A US 3708850DA US 3708850 A US3708850 A US 3708850A
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R Martin
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ZF International UK Ltd
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S43/00—Signalling devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. brake lamps, direction indicator lights or reversing lights
    • F21S43/50—Signalling devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. brake lamps, direction indicator lights or reversing lights characterised by aesthetic components not otherwise provided for, e.g. decorative trim, partition walls or covers
    • F21S43/51—Attachment thereof
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21W—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO USES OR APPLICATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS
    • F21W2111/00—Use or application of lighting devices or systems for signalling, marking or indicating, not provided for in codes F21W2102/00 – F21W2107/00
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
    • Y10T29/49863—Assembling or joining with prestressing of part
    • Y10T29/4987—Elastic joining of parts
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T403/00—Joints and connections
    • Y10T403/54—Flexible member is joint component
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T403/00—Joints and connections
    • Y10T403/60—Biased catch or latch
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T403/00—Joints and connections
    • Y10T403/70—Interfitted members
    • Y10T403/7075—Interfitted members including discrete retainer

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  • each g g torsion bar includes an outwardly projecting lug the [22] Filed: April 29, 1970 lugs being positioned intermediate the ends of the torsion bars.
  • the distance between the outer edges of the [21] Appl lugs is greater than the distance between opposite sides of a hole in a panel into which the body is to be [30] Foreign Application Priority Data inserted, and there is provided a retaining member engageable with the body.
  • the retaining member is July 7, 1969 Great Britain ..34,l3l/69 capable of g g g the panel around the hole in the panel, and includes a pair of fingers which extends [52] US. Cl. ..29/203 P, 29/4-50, 287/l89. 3 between the lugs and the body when the member is Int Cl engaged with the body.
  • the fingers each include pora e a .4 4 tions engagg the lugs on the torsion bars so as [58] meld of Search g g to prevent disengagement of the body from the 2 l8 member.
  • Means includes a pair of torsion bars carried by the body on opposite sides thereof, and spaced from the body, an outwardly projecting lug on each of the torsion bars, the lugs being intermediate the ends of the torsion bars and the distance between the outer edges of the lugs being greater than the distance between opposite peripheral walls surrounding a hole in the panel into which the body is to be inserted, and a retaining member engageable with the body, the retaining member being capable of engaging the panel around the hole in the panel and having a pair of fingers which extend between said lugs and the body respectively when the member is engaged with the body, the fingers having portions which engage said lugs in'a manner to resist disengagement of the body from said member and the arrangement being such that in use the body and said member are interengaged and the body is inserted through the hole in the panel, said lugs engaging the peripheral walls surrounding the hole and said torsion bars being twisted to permit said lugs to pass through the hole, by the action of
  • the panel 26 is formed with an aperture, the dimensions of which are slightly larger than the dimensions of the body 11.
  • the member 21 is engaged with the body 11, in such a manner that the lens 22closes the open end of the body 11, and the finers 24, 25 extend between the lugs 18, 19 and the body 11, with the shoulders of the fingers 24, 25 engaging the lower surfaces of the lugs 18, 19 respectively.
  • the dimensions of the flange 23 of the member are greater than the dimensions of the aperture in the panel 26, and the assembly constituted by the body 11 and the member 21 is inserted through the-aperture in the panel 26 until the lower surface of the flange 23 engages the upper surface of the panel 26.
  • the lamp assembly includes a generally rectangular, molded synthetic resin body 11 defining three bulb holders 12.
  • the upper surface of the body 11 is open, and between the bulb holcloserto the plane of the open end of the body 11 than are the outermost edges thereof.
  • each of the lugs. l8, 19 includes an outer ramp surface 18b, 19b
  • the assembly further includes a molded synthetic resin retaining member 21 including a central lens porsurface of the panel 26.
  • ramp surfaces 18b, 19b with respect to the walls of the aperture in the panel 26 are altered in a manner to permit the lugs 18, 19 to pass through the aperture.
  • the resilience of the torsion bars 16, 17 returns the lugs l8, 19 to their original orientation, thereby engaging the top surfaces 18a," 19a of the lugs 18, 19 with the lower surface of the panel 26. Since the top surfaces 18a, 19a of the lugs 18, 19 are inclined, then they do not make facial contact with the lower surface of the panel 26 but make line contact with the lower surface of the panel 26 at the edges of the aperture inthe panel.
  • the dimensions of the parts are such that the torsion bars 16, 17 are still stressed when the top surfaces 180, 19a of the lugs engage the lower surface of the panel, and so the restoring force applied by the torsion bars 16, 17 urges thelower surface of the flange 23 .firrnly into contact with the upper surface of the panel 26.
  • the flange 23 prevents the assembly being pushed completely through the, panel 26, and the lugs 18, 19 resist withdrawal of the assembly from the panel.
  • Means for securing a body to a panel including a pair of torsion bars carried by the body on opposite sides thereof, and spaced from the body, an outwardly projecting lug on each of the torsion bars, the lugs being intermediate the ends of the torsion bars and the distance between the outer edges of the lugs being walls of a hole in the panel into which the body is to be inserted, and a retaining member engageable with the body, the retaining member being capable of engaging the panel around the hole in the panel and having a pair of fingers which extend between said lugs and the body respectively when the member is engaged with the body, the fingers I having portions which engage said lugs in a manner to resist disengagement of the body I greater than-the distance between opposite peripheral from said member and the arrangement being such that in use the body and said member are inter-engaged and the body is inserted through the hole in the panel, said lugs engaging the peripheral walls surrounding the hole, andsaid torsion bars being twisted to permit said lugs to pass through the hole

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GB34131/69A GB1299083A (en) 1969-07-07 1969-07-07 A component capable of being secured to a panel

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US4309012A (en) * 1978-09-21 1982-01-05 Nissan Motor Company, Limited Instrument mounting structure
US4313584A (en) * 1978-09-21 1982-02-02 Nissan Motor Company, Limited Structure for mounting a meter on an instrument panel of motor vehicles
US4733339A (en) * 1986-08-21 1988-03-22 Cooper Industries Mounting system for recessed light fixture
US4822228A (en) * 1985-11-27 1989-04-18 Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft Quick-action connection for retaining an insertion part in an orifice of a carrier
US5475577A (en) * 1992-07-07 1995-12-12 Donnelly Corporation Accessory attachment plate for vehicle panels
US6019487A (en) * 1998-04-02 2000-02-01 Chrysler Corporation Lamp housing securement
US6361197B1 (en) * 1999-05-11 2002-03-26 Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Vehicular lamp

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JPS6215926Y2 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) * 1975-07-26 1987-04-22
JPS585202U (ja) * 1981-07-01 1983-01-13 株式会社ニフコ 車輛用ランプハウジングの取付構造

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US2355643A (en) * 1942-08-07 1944-08-15 Atwood H Grover Means for positioning objects
US3559819A (en) * 1969-05-07 1971-02-02 Western Electric Co Method and apparatus for orienting articles with tapered ends
US3653112A (en) * 1970-03-19 1972-04-04 Gen Electric Apparatus for aligning the shadow mask with respect to the face panel of a cathode ray tube

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US2355643A (en) * 1942-08-07 1944-08-15 Atwood H Grover Means for positioning objects
US3559819A (en) * 1969-05-07 1971-02-02 Western Electric Co Method and apparatus for orienting articles with tapered ends
US3653112A (en) * 1970-03-19 1972-04-04 Gen Electric Apparatus for aligning the shadow mask with respect to the face panel of a cathode ray tube

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4309012A (en) * 1978-09-21 1982-01-05 Nissan Motor Company, Limited Instrument mounting structure
US4313584A (en) * 1978-09-21 1982-02-02 Nissan Motor Company, Limited Structure for mounting a meter on an instrument panel of motor vehicles
US4822228A (en) * 1985-11-27 1989-04-18 Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft Quick-action connection for retaining an insertion part in an orifice of a carrier
US4733339A (en) * 1986-08-21 1988-03-22 Cooper Industries Mounting system for recessed light fixture
US5475577A (en) * 1992-07-07 1995-12-12 Donnelly Corporation Accessory attachment plate for vehicle panels
US6019487A (en) * 1998-04-02 2000-02-01 Chrysler Corporation Lamp housing securement
US6361197B1 (en) * 1999-05-11 2002-03-26 Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Vehicular lamp

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