Patents Assigned to Newfrey LLC
  • Clamp for elongated objects such as pipe
    Patent number: 7219931
    Abstract: An elongated object clamp 1 which reduces transmission of vibration between an object 2 and a support 3 in a circumferential direction of the object and an axial direction comprises a gripper unit 5 for holding an elongated object such as a pipe, a securing unit for attaching the clamp to a support such as a body panel, and a vibration absorbing unit 7 for reducing transmission of vibration between the gripper unit and the securing unit. The vibration absorbing unit can bend in various directions and includes first curved arms and second curved arms stacked between the gripper unit and the securing unit, and arranged so that bending directions of the arms cross one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kato
  • Resilient clip fastener
    Patent number: 7213304
    Abstract: A resilient clip with a plurality of twisted wings for engaging a first structure. The twisted wings provide the clip with a low ratio of insertion force to pull-out force, rendering the clip relatively easy to install yet difficult to pull out. In one embodiment, the resilient clip includes at least three wing members that cooperate to prevent the resilient clip from rotating relative to the first structure. In another embodiment, the resilient clip includes an engagement portion having a plurality of teeth for engaging a tab formed into a second structure. The teeth of the engagement portion engage the tab, permitting the resilient clip to be coupled to the second structure. When the resilient clip is engaged to the first structure, the teeth of the engagement portion cannot disengage the tab, rendering the resilient clip non-removably coupling the resilient clip to the first and second structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J Lubera, Jacob A Siudym, II, Robert Osterland
  • Rekeyable lock assembly
    Patent number: 7213429
    Abstract: A rekeyable lock cylinder includes a cylinder body with a plug body and carrier sub-assembly disposed therein. The plug body includes a plurality of spring-loaded pins and the carrier assembly includes a plurality of racks for engaging the pins to operate the lock cylinder. The racks and pins move in a transverse direction, in response to insertion of a first valid key into the lock cylinder, to unlock the lock cylinder. The carrier moves in a longitudinal direction, in response to insertion of a tool in a tool-receiving aperture, from an operating position to a rekeying position. In the rekeying position, the racks are disengaged from the pins and a second valid key can replace the first valid key. Rotation of the plug body from the rekeying position with the second valid key in the lock cylinder obsoletes the first valid key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Steven Armstrong, Gerald B. Chong
  • Fastener for curtain airbag
    Patent number: 7210886
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawai, Yoshiharu Kawasaki, Shuichi Okinaka, Mitsuo Nogami
  • Vibration suppressing clamp for pipe or the like
    Patent number: 7207528
    Abstract: A vibration suppressing clamp for pipe or the like comprises a base supporting a pipe holder with a space for accommodating a pipe to be held. The space is defined by a curved seat and a pair of walls extending from the seat. At least one of the walls is flexible, has a piece at a tip portion for holding a pipe in the space, and is spaced from an adjacent rigid wall. A vibration suppression member covers the seat and adjacent portions of each flexible wall and fills at least a portion of the space between the flexible wall and the adjacent rigid wall. The seat and the base have holes into which deformed portions of the vibration suppression member can retract in response to an impact on a pipe in the pipe holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kato
  • Fastener for panels or the like
    Patent number: 7207759
    Abstract: A fastener comprises a pin and a bushing having a hollow shank that is inserted into holes in a plurality of members being attached. A pin shank is inserted into the bushing shank to effect a widened-diameter coupling condition in which the diameter of the bushing shank is widened, and the members being attached are coupled between the diameter-widened bushing shank and a bushing flange. On the bushing shank are pawls for maintaining a non-widened-diameter coupling condition in which the pin and the bushing are coupled with the pin shank partially inserted into the bushing shank, and the diameter of the bushing shank is not widened. On the pin shank there is a groove for engaging the pawls, which normally extend out beyond the diameter of the attachment holes, but can bend inward. The groove has a depth that will accept the pawls when they are bent inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kato
  • Clamp for holding of flat objects
    Patent number: 7207529
    Abstract: A clamp for holding of films, tape lines or the like consists of an underpart consists of a floor and stops projecting from the floor and arranged at a distance from each other, laterally bounding a holding region, and a top part attached to the underpart and opposed to the floor, an entry opening being provided between the top part and the stop arranged on one side of the holding region. The clamp comprises a lid overreaching the top part in closed position and connected to the underpart by a closure, with which lid the entry opening is closable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Frank Rosemann, Ernst Ludwig Hahn, Hans Peter Seng
  • Fastener for fixed rib applications
    Patent number: 7204000
    Abstract: A fastener joining accessories to automobiles includes a molded portion having a flexible skirt and two support posts extending from the flexible skirt. A metallic portion insert molded with the molded portion includes both a pair of deflection wings and a pair of looped bights oppositely extending from the flexible skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Steven M Benedetti, Rosalind A Nessel
  • Holder comprising a movable arch
    Patent number: 7201351
    Abstract: A holder for elongated objects comprises a half-shell including an inner shell of elastic material, forming a spring structure, and an outer shell of a less elastic material. The inner shell comprises a bridge-like arch spanning an interior and freely movable outward of the half-shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Mario Stigler
  • Cable clamp
    Patent number: 7201352
    Abstract: A cable clamp comprises an anchor to be fixed to a workpiece, a clamp portion for clamping a cable, and a flexible protection member for protecting the cable. The anchor and the clamp portion are integrally molded. The clamp portion includes a holder having a concavity, and a cover for closing the concavity. The cover has one end connected to one end of the holder by a hinge. The other end of the cover and the other end of the holder have cooperable latch portions adapted to be latched to one another. The protection member includes a holder-side portion fixed to the holder, and a cover-side portion that extends substantially parallel to the cover in its open state and that is pressed by the cover in its closed state to envelop the outer surface of the cable in cooperation with the holder-side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kawai
  • Multi-grip blind rivet
    Patent number: 7198444
    Abstract: A multi-grip blind rivet 74 includes a rivet body 82, adapted to receive a portion of a mandrel 76. A plurality of indentations 88 are formed in an outer surface 86 of the rivet body 82 in each of three axially spaced transaxial planes. Each indentation 88 is formed with a work hardened base surface 90 having a convex portion, which is formed with axially spaced first and second transaxial edges 106 and 108 having nonlinear portions. Adjacent indentations 88 are separated by ribs 89. A flared intermediate surface 122 extends between the base surface 90 and the outer surface 86. The rivet 74 is assembled within aligned holes 128 and 130 of workpieces 124 and 126, respectively, where, upon setting of the rivet, the indentations 88 collapse and the outer surface 86 bulges against walls of the holes to retain the workpieces together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Frank Piacenti, Jerry W. Robertson
  • Deadbolt rose
    Patent number: D539115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Aaron E. Hanna
  • Faucet
    Patent number: D539871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Hanna
  • Handle
    Patent number: D540140
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Soriano, Angie Kosasih, Jason D. Veltz
  • Handleset grip
    Patent number: D540147
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Yos Singtoroj
  • Shower flange
    Patent number: D540919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Bryan Soriano
  • Faucet handle
    Patent number: D541386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Hanna
  • Faucet handle
    Patent number: D541387
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Hanna
  • Lever
    Patent number: D541621
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Elliott Schneider
  • Door knob
    Patent number: D542115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Aaron E. Hanna, Jason D. Veltz