DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SNAP MEMBER DETACHING FORCE, AND SNAP CHUCK

• US 20100043565A1
• Filed: 10/27/2009
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Original Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Inventors: Shimizu, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 7,905,151 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/833
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 5/0033 applying a pulling force

Abstract

A device and method for measuring snap member detaching force, the snap member detaching force measurement device includes a cloth holding unit for holding cloth on the periphery of the snap member attached to the cloth; a snap chucking unit for chucking the snap member from its side portion by a plurality of chucking portions of the unit; a torque gauge for applying torque to the snap member chucked by the chucking portions; a tension unit for relatively pulling the snap member from the cloth; and a tensile force gauge for measuring tensile force provided by the tension unit. The snap chucking unit includes turning arms which can lock, with constant chucking force, the state of the snap member chucked by the chucking portions.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A snap chuck which chucks a snap member attached to cloth from its side portion, the snap chuck comprising:

a plurality of chucking members for chucking the side portion of the snap member by chucking portions of the chucking members; and

a lock mechanism which can lock, with constant chucking force, the state of the snap member chucked by the chucking portions of the chucking members.

8. The snap chuck according to claim 7, comprising an elastic member which pushes the chucking portions of the chucking members against the side portion of the snap member, wherein the lock mechanism, in a locked state, can reinforce the force of the chucking portions to chuck the snap member by the elastic member.

9. The snap chuck according to claim 7, wherein the lock mechanism includes a support shaft, and one or more arms which can turn centering around the support shaft between a state in which the arms are pushing the snap chucking device and a state in which the arms are not pushing the snap chucking device.

10. The snap chuck according to claim 9, the lock mechanism includes chucking force adjustment device adjusting the distance between the snap chucking device and the support shaft.

11. The snap chuck according to claim 7, wherein the lock mechanism includes chucking force adjustment device enabling the chucked state to be locked by chucking forces corresponding to a plurality of kinds of diameters of the snap members.

12-13. -13. (canceled)