Mounting clip

• US 5,592,720 A
• Filed: 12/06/1995
• Issued: 01/14/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Sasakawa, Hidetoshi, Ushiyama, Keiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Sakran, Victor N.
• Application Number:
  US08/568,417
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 24/453, 24/41.1, 24/292, 24/293, 24/297, 411/508, 411/509, 411/913, 411/552, 411/182
• US Class Current: 24/453
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 21/088 the stud, pin or spigot being integrally formed with the component to be fastened, e.g. forming part of the sheet, plate or strip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/304 Resilient metal type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/309 Plastic type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/42 Independent, headed, aperture pass-through fastener

Abstract

A clip not only has a substantially cylindrical clip main body arranged on a side surface of a base plate so as to be integral with the base board, but also has a pair of flexible blades arranged in tonguelike form so as to be sloped upward toward the clip main body at positions close to the clip main body with the base plate as the basal ends of such flexible blades. Further, a pair of retaining protuberances having flexibility are formed on a circumferential wall surface of the clip main body so as to be integral with the clip main body. The flexible blades are disposed so as to be substantially 90° shifted from positions at which the retaining protuberances are formed. Still further, notches are formed so as to accommodate the front ends of the pair of flexible blades at positions confronting the pair of flexible blades on the circumferential wall surface of the clip main body.

Claims

1. A clip for mounting to a mounting plate, the clip comprising:

a base plate;

a clip main body disposed on the base plate, the clip main body to be inserted into a mounting hole of the mounting plate;

a pair of retaining protuberances being mounted on a circumferential wall surface of the clip main body, the retaining protuberances being flexible; and

a pair of flexible blades disposed on the base plate the flexible blades being inwardly sloped toward the clip main body from the base plate, wherein a line connecting the pair of flexible blades orthogonally intersects a line connecting the pair of retaining protuberances, and wherein the clip main body is disposed at the intersection.

2. A clip according to claim 1, wherein the flexible blades are arranged on the base plate so as to be substantially 90°

shifted from positions at which the retaining protuberances on the circumferential wall surface of the clip main body are formed.

3. A clip according to claim 1, wherein the flexible blades are sloped substantially toward the center of the clip main body from the base plate.

6. A clip according to claim 2, wherein the flexible blades are sloped substantially toward the center of the clip main body from the base plate.

7. A clip according to claim 2, wherein a line connecting the pair of flexible blades orthogonally intersects a line connecting the pair of retaining protuberances and wherein the clip main body is disposed at the intersection.

4. A clip for mounting to a mounting plate, the clip comprising:

a base plate;

a clip main body projected on the base plate, the clip main body to be inserted into a mounting hole of a mounting plate;

a pair of retaining protuberances being mounted on a circumferential wall surface of the clip main body, the retaining protuberances being flexible; and

a pair of flexible blades sloped toward the clip main body from the base plate, wherein notches for accommodating front ends of the flexible blades are arranged in the circumferential wall surface of the clip main body.

5. A clip according to claim 4, wherein the flexible blades are arranged on the base plate so as to be substantially 90°

shifted from positions at which the retaining protuberances on the circumferential wall surface of the clip main body are formed.