Bracket Assembling Mechanism

• US 20180072248A1
• Filed: 08/16/2017
• Published: 03/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daiwa Kasei Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Daiwa Kasei Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: OHASHI, Kenji, SAWADA, Naohiro, TOKUNAGA, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 10,406,999 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0215 Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/1025 the members being joined by quick acting means
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/1075 with two members, the two members being joined with a hinge on one side and fastened together on the other side
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/0468 Corrugated
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/32 using mounting clamps

Abstract

[Summary]

[Object] To provide a bracket assembling mechanism that assembles a bracket to a vehicle component while preventing the bracket from shaking.

[Solution] A bracket assembling mechanism assembles a bracket 101 to an assembling part 10 of a vehicle holding component 1. The assembling part 10 includes an accommodating part 11 that accommodates the bracket 101 and a retainer engaging part 12 that retains the accommodated bracket 101. The accommodating part 11 includes an elastic projecting part 9 that projects from a side wall surface that opposes the accommodated bracket 101 in a widthwise direction 101z of the bracket. When the bracket 101 is accommodated, the elastic projecting part 9 is elastically deformed in a manner that its distal end side is bent in a plate thickness direction 101y of the bracket 101.

Claims

1. A bracket assembling mechanism that assembles a bracket attached to a vehicle body to an assembling part of a vehicle component, wherein

the assembling part includes an accommodating part that accommodates the bracket from a lower opening toward an upper direction and a retainer engaging part that is engaged with a retainer part of the bracket so as to prevent removal of the bracket in an accommodated state, and

the accommodating part includes a plurality of central wall surfaces that oppose to each other to sandwich the bracket in an accommodated state in a plate thickness direction, a side wall surface that opposes the bracket in an accommodated state in a widthwise direction of the bracket, and an elastic projecting part that projects from the side wall surface and that is pressed, at its distal end side, against an end part of the bracket in the widthwise direction when the bracket is accommodated in the accommodating part so as to be bent and elastically deformed in the plate thickness direction.

2. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the elastic projecting part is formed as a projection that extends in a movement direction of the bracket, and a distal end side of the projection is bent to contact the bracket.

3. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the accommodating part includes a bottom wall on an inner side in the movement direction, the bottom wall includes an opening near an end part of the elastic projecting part on the inner side in the movement direction, and thus an inner side of the elastic projecting part does not contact other walls of the accommodating part.

4. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein

the accommodating part includes a central accommodating part that is formed between the central wall surfaces opposing to each other and that accommodates a central part of the bracket in the widthwise direction and an end accommodating part whose inner wall surface is the side wall surface, that accommodates an end part of the bracket in the widthwise direction even when the end part is a bent end part that is bent from the central part in the plate thickness direction, and

the end accommodating part includes a first bent-end accommodating part and a second bent-end accommodating part that respectively extend from both ends of the central accommodating part in the widthwise direction toward a first side in the plate thickness direction and a second side opposite to the first side, the bent end part of the bracket can be accommodated even when the bent end part is bent to the first side or the second side.

5. Then bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 4, wherein the side wall surface and the elastic projection part are provided in the first bent-end accommodating part and the second bent-end accommodating part.

6. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 5, wherein

the side wall surface is an inner wall surface that faces the bent end part of the bracket in an accommodated state on a side of the central part in the widthwise direction, and

the elastic projecting part projects from the side wall surface toward an opposite side to the central part in the widthwise direction.

7. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 5, wherein

the side wall surface is an inner wall surface that faces the bent end part of the bracket in an accommodated state on an opposite side to the side of the central part in the widthwise direction, and

the elastic projecting part projects from the side wall surface toward the side of the central part in the widthwise direction.

8. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 4, wherein

the side wall surface is an inner wall surface that faces the bracket in an accommodated state on the opposite side to the side of the central part in the widthwise direction, and

the elastic projecting part projects from an intermediate part between the first bent-end accommodating part and the second bent-end accommodating part in the side wall surface toward the side of the central part in the widthwise direction.

9. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the elastic projecting part projects so as to be inclined from a proximal end side in a manner that a distal end side leans toward the first side or the second side in the plate thickness direction of the bracket in an accommodated state.

10. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 9, wherein the side wall surface includes a recess that is recessed so as to include an inner wall surface that is continuous with an inclined lower surface of the elastic projecting part, on a side of a proximal end part of the elastic projecting part toward which the elastic projecting part is inclined.

11. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein

the elastic projecting part is a projection that extends in a movement direction of the bracket, and

a projecting distal end surface of the elastic projecting part includes, at least on an outer side in the movement direction of the bracket, a deformation inducing surface that induces elastic deformation of the elastic projecting part toward the first side or the second side in the plate thickness direction when the bracket is accommodated.

12. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein

the elastic projecting part is a projection that extends in a movement direction of the bracket, and

the elastic projecting part is formed on both end sides in the widthwise direction of the bracket in an accommodated state and includes a first projecting part that has such a projection amount as to be capable of receiving the bracket to be accommodated in the accommodating part while keeping a space equal to or larger than a predetermined width between the first projecting part in an elastically undeformed state and an end part of the bracket in the widthwise direction, a second projecting part that is continuous with the first projecting part on the inner side in the movement direction of the bracket and that has such a projection amount as to be capable of receiving the bracket substantially without any space between the second projecting part in an elastically undeformed state and the end part of the bracket in the widthwise direction, and a third projecting part that is continuous with the second projecting part on the inner side in the movement direction and that has such a projection amount as to be pressed against the end part of the bracket in the widthwise direction and elastically deformed to receive the bracket.

13. The bracket assembling mechanism according to claim 12, wherein

the retainer engaging part is an elastic engaging part, where the elastic engaging part includes, on an upper side of the elastic engaging part, an engaging claw that projects inwardly into the accommodating part to be pressed from a lower direction by the bracket that is moved upward from a lower opening of the accommodating part, the elastic engaging part is elastically deformed from a lower side of the elastic engaging part by being pressed by the bracket to allow for upward movement of the bracket, and when the bracket is further moved upward and an engaging hole of the bracket is moved to a position of the engaging claw, the elastic engaging part elastically returns to an original shape to cause the engaging claw to enter the engaging hole and thus the engaging claw entering the engaging hole abuts against an inner peripheral upper surface of the engaging hole, thus preventing downward removal of the bracket, and

the retainer engaging part is elastically deformed by being pressed by the bracket after the bracket is moved to a position of the second projecting part of the elastic projecting part.