Abstract: A tie for elongated objects has a flexible strap extending from a retaining head that includes side-by-side retaining and locking regions, the tops of which form a contact surface for objects to be held. The retaining region is constructed for fastening to a T-stud on a support. The locking region is constructed to receive an entry section of the strap looped about objects to be held and to lock the strap in the locking region.

Abstract: A clip comprises a pin, and a hollow bush adapted to receive the pin therein. The bush includes a flange and a bush body having an opening which is formed by partially cutting off a peripheral wall thereof and adapted to receive therein a pin shank in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the bush body. The bush body and the bush flange are adapted to be expanded in a radially outward direction of the bush body about a position opposed to the opening, in a hinged manner. The pin has a shank that includes a protruding portion which has a narrow region formed near a distal end of the pin shank, causing no expansion in an outer diameter of the bush body in the radially outward direction when the pin is in a non-fastened position, and a wide region adjacent to the bush flange, causing an expansion in the outer diameter of the bush body when the pin is in a fastened position.

Abstract: A vibration absorbing clamp comprises a hard plastic base, hard plastic pipe grippers for gripping pipes, and a soft plastic vibration absorbing material disposed between the base and the pipe grippers. Each pipe gripper has a receiver for receiving a pipe and elastic wings allowing the pipe to be pushed into the receiver but not removed. The base has a bottom and side walls spaced from the bottom and sides of the receivers. The sides of the receiver and the side walls of the base are connected only by hard plastic thin plate supports. The spaces formed by the bottoms and sides of the receiver and by the bottom and side walls of the base are filled with vibration absorbing material so as to envelop the thin plate supports.

Abstract: A clamp 10 for an elongated member comprises a receiving portion 22 and a resilient retaining wing 27 which has a connection end 33 connected to an upper edge of a side wall 25 of the receiving portion 22. The resilient retaining wing 27 has a first portion extending from an intermediate position 35 to a distal end 34 and a second portion extending from the connection end 33 to the intermediate position 35. The second portion is formed to extend toward a bottom of the receiving portion 22 obliquely at a predetermined small angle ? relative to the side wall 25 so as to increase a distance (b) between a point of action (33) and a point of application (35), and the first portion is formed to be bent in a direction away from the side wall 25 so as to narrow a width of a pull-out passage for the elongated member.

Abstract: A clip (1) comprises a base (6), a shank (7) extending from the base (6), a pair of legs (9A, 9B) extending from an end of the shank towards the base and away from a side of the shank, and a pair of elastic fingers (11A, 11B) extending from the end of the shank towards the base and away from a side of the shank, juxtaposed with the legs. A curved end (12)is formed at the end of each finger to engage the edge of a mounting hole (5) in a workpiece. Complementary parts of a molded plastic clip, connected by a hinge, are fastened to one another before mounting of the clip.

Abstract: A fastener for fixing a curtain airbag to a body panel of an automobile comprises a screw grommet having a shank to be inserted into mounting holes of an airbag-anchor portion and a body panel, and a flange to press the airbag-anchor portion against the body panel. The flange has an opening and the shank has a shank hole continuous to the opening into which a tapping screw is driven. The shank has resilient fingers protruding outward from sides of the shank to engage edge regions of mounting holes in a temporary fixing state. The fingers are held in a permanent fixing state by screwing the tapping screw into the shank hole, preventing the fingers from being bent inward. The flange has an edge with an upstanding partition to allow a central region of the flange to be partitioned from a main body of the curtain airbag.

Abstract: A collet and nut assembly for a stud welder in which the body of a tubular nut has an extension sleeve that surrounds a tubular collet having longitudinal tangs separated by slots. Relief holes at base ends of the slots are inside the nut, and maximum stress on the collet is redistributed away from the relief holes. The nut may have a further tubular extension forming a cover for the collet, with a face that protects the tip of the collet from weld spatter and soot. The cover also protects the collet from heat.