FIXING ELEMENT FOR SECURING A RETAINING ELEMENT ON A SUPPORT AND SYSTEM COMPRISING A FIXING ELEMENT AND A RETAINING ELEMENT

• US 20190331148A1
• Filed: 10/18/2017
• Published: 10/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: A. Raymond et Cie SCS
• Original Assignee: A. Raymond et Cie SCS
• Inventors: DE JONG, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 11,015,632 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/20 Arrangements for storing inflatable members in their non-use or deflated condition; Arrangement or mounting of air bag modules or components
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/243 internal, i.e. with spreading action
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/245 external, i.e. with contracting action
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 21/075 the socket having resilient parts on its inside and outside
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/0657 at least one of the plates providing a raised structure, e.g. of the doghouse type, for connection with the clamps or clips of the other plate
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle

Abstract

Disclosed is a fastener for securing a retaining element on a support, wherein the fastener is formed like a retaining clip and has at least one leg and at least one engaging section, wherein the engaging section extends outwardly from the longitudinal axis of the fastener and is designed to engage with the retaining element. The leg has at least one latching section for retaining the retaining element on the support at an opening of the support, wherein the fastener has a channel for a section of the retaining element, wherein the fastener has at least one contact region for the retaining element that is positioned at least partially within the channel, and the contact region is functionally connected to the engaging section via a connecting section, wherein the contact region has an angle greater than 0° and less than 90° to the longitudinal axis of the channel.

Claims

1. A fastener for securing a retaining element on a support, wherein the fastener is formed like a retaining clip and has at least one leg and at least one engaging section, wherein the engaging section extends outwardly from the longitudinal axis of the fastener and is capable of engaging the retaining element, wherein the leg has at least one latching section for retaining the retaining element on the support, wherein the fastener has a channel for receiving a section of the retaining element, wherein the fastener has at least one contact region for contact with the retaining element that is positioned at least partially within the channel, wherein the contact region is connected to the engaging section via a connecting section, and wherein the contact region extends at an angle greater than 0°

and less than 90°

to the longitudinal axis of the channel.

2. The fastener according to claim 1, wherein the engaging section encloses an angle of less than or equal to 90°

with the longitudinal axis of the fastener.

3. The fastener according to claim 1, wherein the contact region has a deflecting section, or a deflecting section adjoins the contact region, wherein the deflecting section is arranged in the region of the channel.

4. The fastener according to claim 3, wherein the contact region forms, with the connecting section and the deflecting section in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the fastener, a part of a V-shaped, U-shaped, diamond-shaped, partially circular or partially elliptical section.

5. The fastener according to claim 1, wherein an outwardly extending further engaging section (23) for the retaining element (2) adjoins the contact region (16).

6. The fastener according to claim 5, wherein the further engaging section is connected to the contact region via a further connecting section extending through a window defined by one of the legs of the fastener.

7. The fastener according to claim 6, wherein the window is defined in a section of a leg which has an angle not equal to 0°

to the longitudinal axis of the fastener.

8. The fastener according to claim 6, wherein the distance of the engaging section from a central axis of the fastener is greater than the distance of the further engaging section from the central axis of the fastener.

9. The fastener according to claim 1, wherein the fastener has a groove-shaped recess, or bead, or detent lug extending into the channel.

10. A system comprising a fastener according to claim 1 and a retaining element, wherein a distance between the engaging section and the contact region in the longitudinal direction of the fastener is adapted to a distance between a contact surface of the retaining element against which the engaging section can rest, and a latching element which is provided on a section of the retaining element to be received by the channel and against which the contact region rests.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the section of the retaining element located in the channel is adapted to the fastener in such a way that both a contact of the section on the contact region and on a region of the leg facing the contact region in the section of the fastener is made possible.

12. The system according to one of claim 10, wherein a latching section is formed by a latching ramp which extends at an angle to the longitudinal axis, and is located on the other side of the contact region in comparison with the engaging section and has a surface facing the surface of the engaging section coming into contact with the contact surface of the retaining element.

13. The system according to claim 12, further comprising a catch section having a surface which faces the surface of the engaging section coming into contact with the contact surface of the retaining element, wherein the catch section is arranged farther along the longitudinal axis from the engaging section in comparison to the latching section.