Screw member

• US 20050022636A1
• Filed: 07/30/2003
• Published: 02/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chih-Ching Hsien
• Original Assignee: Chih-Ching Hsien
• Inventors: Hsien, Chih-Ching
• Application Number:
  US10/634,184
• Publication Number:
  US 20050022636A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 81/460
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 15/005 with cross- or star-shaped cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 23/0007 characterised by the shape of the recess or the protrusion engaging the tool F16B23/0069 and F16B23/0076 take precedence

Abstract

A screw member includes a main body having a first end provided with a head portion and a second end provided with a threaded portion. The head portion has a center formed with a substantially Y-shaped insertion recess including three locking grooves. The three locking grooves of the insertion recess of the head portion are equally divided portions of the circular head portion, so that the tip of the screwdriver is combined with the head portion in a co-planar three-point contact manner. Thus, the screw member is combined with the screwdriver rigidly and stably.

Claims

1. A screw member, comprising a main body having a first end provided with a head portion, wherein:

the head portion has a center formed with a substantially Y-shaped insertion recess.

2. The screw member in accordance with claim 1, wherein the head portion has a planar shape.

3. The screw member in accordance with claim 1, wherein the head portion has a circular shape.

4. The screw member in accordance with claim 1, wherein the insertion recess of the head portion includes three locking grooves.

5. The screw member in accordance with claim 4, wherein the head portion has a circular shape, and the three locking grooves of the insertion recess of the head portion are equally divided portions of the circular head portion.

6. The screw member in accordance with claim 4, further comprising a screwdriver having a substantially Y-shaped tip inserted into the insertion recess of the head portion and locked in the three locking grooves of the insertion recess of the head portion.

7. The screw member in accordance with claim 6, wherein the tip of the screwdriver is combined with the insertion recess of the head portion in a co-planar three-point contact manner.

8. The screw member in accordance with claim 7, wherein the tip of the screwdriver is combined with the head portion in a co-planar three-point contact manner, so that the tangential directions of three forces applied by the three locking grooves of the insertion recess of the head portion on the tip of the screwdriver form a substantially circular curve which aligns with the circular rotation direction of the tip of the screwdriver.

9. The screw member in accordance with claim 4, wherein each of the three locking grooves of the insertion recess of the head portion has a wall having the same cross-sectional area.

10. The screw member in accordance with claim 1, wherein the main body has a second end provided with a threaded portion.