Cam lock buckle

• US 8,935,833 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2010
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Original Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Inventors: Kaneko, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert J
• Assistant Examiner(s): UPCHURCH, DAVID M
• Application Number:
  US13/877,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20130185902A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,560 Days
• Field of Search: 241/70, 241/80, 241/91, 243/23, 243/24
• US Class Current: 24/170
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/065 with strap tightening means A44B11/125 takes precedence; tighteners for securing of load on vehicles B60P7/0823; buckles attached to the end of a strap for bundling articles B65D63/16
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/12 turnable clamp
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/266 with at least one push-button acting parallel to the main plane of the buckle and perpendicularly to the direction of the fastening action
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3423 and separable fastening means for attached fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3424 Snap fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4016 Pivoted part or lever
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4072 Pivoted lever

Abstract

In a cam lock buckle, a slide mechanism holds a movable member so that the movable member can slide between a first position at which a shaft is located close to a first end of an elongated hole and a second position at which the shaft is located close to a second end of the elongated hole. A gap defined between a holding portion and a bottom portion when the movable member is slid to the second position is narrower than a gap defined between the holding portion and the bottom portion when the movable member is slid to the first position. One of the holding portion and the bottom portion facing the holding portion is provided with a concave groove and the other of the holding portion and the bottom portion is provided with a convex tread that pushes a part of the belt into the concave groove.

Claims

1. A cam lock buckle comprising:

a first member comprising a bottom portion and rising walls provided on both sides of the bottom portion in a width direction;

a second member that is held by the first member being spaced apart from the bottom portion of the first member with a gap into which the belt is inserted, the second member comprising a holding portion for holding the belt against the bottom portion; and

a slide mechanism comprising an elongated hole that is provided to one of the second member and the rising walls and a shaft that is provided to the other of the second member and the rising walls and is engaged with the elongated hole in a slidable manner, the slide mechanism holding the second member in a manner capable of slide movement between a first position at which the shaft is located close to a first end of the elongated hole and a second position at which the shaft is located close to a second end of the elongated hole, wherein

a gap defined between the holding portion and the bottom portion when the second member is slid to the second position is narrower than a gap defined between the holding portion and the bottom portion when the second member is slid to the first position,

one of the holding portion and the bottom portion facing the holding portion is provided with a recess extending along an insertion direction of the belt, and

the other of the holding portion and the bottom portion facing the holding portion is provided with a projection that pushes a part of the belt into the recess, wherein the projection is provided by a convex tread extending along the insertion direction of the belt,

wherein the convex tread is configured so that a width of the convex tread is gradually enlarged as the convex tread extends in the insertion direction and a gap against the holding portion gradually narrows when the second member slides from the first position to the second position.

2. The cam lock buckle according to claim 1, wherein

the bottom portion facing the holding portion is slanted toward the holding portion in the direction for the second member to slide from the first position to the second position.

3. The cam lock buckle according to claim 1, further comprising a rise-prevention mechanism that prevents the second member from rising with the shaft as a fulcrum when the second member is closed relative to the first member.