Having Plural, Oppositely Acting Resilient Members Acting As Retainer Or Keeper Patents (Class 248/222.12)
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Patent number: 6669149Abstract: A clamp detachable by handling from the front side of a plate is provided. When the main body of the clamp is pressed against the plate with an abutting portion elastically deformed and a connecting portion thrust into an attachment hole, and is moved in the direction parallel to the front and reverse surfaces of the plate, a retaining portion is moved to overlap the reverse surface of the plate with a first and a second projections engaged in locating holes formed in the plate. As a result, the main body is pressed against the front surface of the plate, the retaining portion is pressed against the reverse surface of the plate, and the first and second projections engaged in locating holes prevent displacement in the direction parallel to the front and reverse surfaces of the plate, whereby the clamp is fixed to the plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2001Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideaki Akizuki
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Patent number: 6644606Abstract: A mounting support bracket for an advertising windup reel which comprises a base which is to be fixedly secured to an exterior surface. Mounted on the base are a pair of hook members and a depending tab with the outer end of the depending tab having an elongated ridge and groove. A portion of an advertising windup reel is to be connectable between the groove and the hook members to be clamped therebetween thereby fixing in position the advertising windup reel to the mounting support bracket. The depending tab includes a handle which facilitates manual movement of such to deflect the depending tab and permit disengagement of the windup reel housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2000Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Inventor: Gregg A. Seidel
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Patent number: 6637707Abstract: A removable holder comprises a mounting base (10) and item holding device (12). The mounting base (10) is intended to be semi-permanently attached to a vertical wall, and the item holding device (12) is designed to be manually mounted within a tapered dovetail receptacle (26) formed in the mounting base for manual removal from the mounting base when not in use. The item holding device (12) incorporates a male tapered dovetail section (32) for mating into the female dovetail section (26) of the mounting base (10). A locking tab (46) is formed with the mounting base (10) in a manner to be biased outwardly to snap into a locking position against a top surface (40) of the male dovetail section (32) to lock the male dovetail section in place. Pressing on the locking tab (46) pushes it out of the way so that the male dovetail section (32) of the item holding device (12) can be manually removed from the female dovetail angled surfaces (26) of the mounting base (10).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1999Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: All Rite Products, Inc.Inventors: George D. Gates, Travis D. Gates
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Patent number: 6592087Abstract: A mounting assembly for a detection device is provided with a front detection face, a back face, a first side face and a stop side face opposite to the first side face. The mounting assembly includes a removable mounting part having an attachment plate, a stop lip with a stop member cooperating with corresponding member on the stop side face of the device, a click fit member cooperating with a corresponding member on the first side face of the device and an elastic pressure member pressing on the back of the device. The mounting assembly also includes a fixed mounting part which includes a base plate fixed to a mounting plate, the base plate being designed to hold a removable mounting part and the mounting plate being designed to hold the mounting assembly on an arbitrary support.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAInventors: Gerard Pitault, Eugene Cheong
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Patent number: 6588637Abstract: A utility holding device configured to be attached to a utility structure and to carry elongated objects includes a support base, a mounting stem supported by the support base, and a generally U-shaped holding member supported by the mounting stem. The U-shaped member has two upright arms which are open at the top so as to define a containment area configured to receive an elongate object. The U-shaped member further includes a plurality of alternating length gripping fins extending from at least one of the upright arms into the containment area to help hold items securely therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: All Rite Products, Inc.Inventors: George D. Gates, Travis D. Gates
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Patent number: 6554020Abstract: A pair of tape heaters 11 are arranged respectively on opposite sides of at least one line and held to the corresponding coupling members by a plurality of clips 12. Each of the clips 12 comprises a pair of side walls 13 opposed to each other as spaced apart by a predetermined distance, and a connecting wall 14 interconnecting the pair of side walls 13 at an intermediate portion of the height thereof so as to move lower portions of the side walls 13 away from each other when upper portions of the side walls 13 are subjected to a force acting to move the upper portions toward each other and to restore the side walls 13 to the original state when the force is removed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2002Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Fujikin IncorporatedInventors: Michio Yamaji, Tsutomu Shinohara, Ichiro Mine, Izuru Shikata, Kenji Tsubota
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Patent number: 6517041Abstract: In an arrangement for displacement of a displacement member along a stationary base by means of a reciprocatable elongate actuating member, the displacement member has at least one linear tooth arrangement. Two axially spaced ratchet members are pivotably mounted on the actuating member at at least one longitudinal edge thereof. The ratchet members diverge away from each other and have ratchet teeth which are operable to engage with the linear tooth arrangement. The ratchet members are urged towards the linear tooth arrangement by springs. Operatively disposed between the at least one linear tooth arrangement and the actuating member, for disengagement of the corresponding ratchet member out of the linear tooth arrangement, is a disengagement member determining the linear stepping advance movement performed by the displacement member.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2001Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Grammer AGInventor: Holger Raum
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Patent number: 6508092Abstract: A generally cylindrical body of a device such as a cam lock is provided with a snap-in mount that enables the body to be mounted from one side of and through mounting holes formed in support panels of distinctly different thicknesses. The body has a shoulder that faces in one direction toward one side of a support panel, and carries sets of movable arms that define engagement surfaces located at different distances from the shoulder that snap outwardly after being inserted through a panel mounting hole to face toward the opposite side of the support panel. The body can be mounted on panels having three different thicknesses if three sets of arms are provided that each define engagement surfaces located at a different distance from the shoulder. More panel thicknesses can be accommodated if one or more of the sets of arms define two or more sets of engagement surfaces each located at a distinctly different distance from the shoulder.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: The Eastern CompanyInventors: Timothy P. Laabs, Michael O. Misner, John J. Crocco
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Patent number: 6421940Abstract: A directory sign assembled from individual modular sign plates, and an improved mounting clip for supporting the sign plates in assembly. The mounting clips have multiple sets of prongs spaced so that prongs of separate sets engage mounting flanges of one or more sign plates. The mounting flanges extend back from the front face of the sign plates to conceal the prongs and related attachment structure, and the end mounting clips have bases that conceal the ends of the sign plates.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: APCO Graphics, Inc.Inventors: Ronald W. Cobb, Benjamin H. Bell
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Patent number: 6408553Abstract: A shelf talker includes a label having a top strip for mounting to a shelf bracket, and a bottom leaflet for printing product information. A release liner is adhesively bonded to the label across the strip only, with the leaflet being linerless.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1999Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Kevin J. Brown, Timothy W. Rawlings, Michael E. Hetrick
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Patent number: 6386496Abstract: A press-control retaining device includes a casing, the casing having two engagement flanges disposed at two sides, a retainer member supported on a spring inside the casing and adapted for securing to an external object, the retainer member having a substantially -shaped bottom positioning base supported on the spring and two springy arms upwardly outwardly extended from the bottom positioning base and adapted for clamping on an external object, the bottom positioning base comprising two first hooked portions bilaterally disposed at a bottom side, two stop flanges bilaterally disposed at a top side, and two second hooked portions respectively spaced between the first hooked portions and the stop flanges, and a slide coupled to the retainer member between the stop flanges and the second hooked portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Taiwan Industrial Fastener Corp.Inventors: Chin-Kuo Lai, Jen-Lung Hsu
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Patent number: 6375494Abstract: A component carrier for an electronic component, said component carrier being made in one piece of a metal sheet material and provided with means for surface mounting on a printed circuit board (PCB) and with holding flanges (2a, 2b) for holding an electronic component. The component carrier has a base (1) provided with a central soldering platform for surface mounting on the PCB. The holding flanges (2a, 2b) extend from the base (1) and are connected to the base (1) via tongues (4a-4d) of the metal sheet material, said tongues (4a-4d) extending in a plane parallel with the base (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Ulrika Renmark, Christian Axelsson
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Patent number: 6371424Abstract: A mounting for mounting an article onto a support comprising upper and lower mounting members. Seating surfaces provided between the members retain the members in assembled relationship with the members immovably registered together in a first plane. Three spaced mounting member registration projections provide, in the assembly, contact between the mounting members in three spaced and staggered positions on opposite sides of one of the mounting members, and registration to hold the members immovably together in a second plane. Spring-loaded locking is provided to hold the members together when assembled. Preferably the registration projections are provided on one member upon guide surfaces which are converging and inclined towards a respective seating surface. Guide surfaces on the other member are correspondingly converging and inclined.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1999Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: General Dynamics Canada Ltd.Inventor: Stephen David Shaw
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Patent number: 6358087Abstract: An assembly and method for installing a snap-fit electrical connector, wherein the assembly includes a base; at least one pair of flange members supported by the base for locating a tether, cable or other electrical wiring; at least one pair of resilient members supported by the flanges forming the pair of flange members for engaging a mating recess or opening; and at least one pair of second flange members supported by the base for providing a snap-fit connection with a second mating recess or opening. The snap-fit connector assembly also includes an electrical connector portion supported by the base for providing a location for establishing an electrical connection.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2000Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Steven M. Haar, John L. Brummans, Thomas K. Lockwood
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Patent number: 6309085Abstract: A lamp support comprises a plurality of attachment ends affixed to a bottom surface of a base member to attach the base member of the lamp support to a stationary object, preferably, an emergency exit sign. A pair of stems, equipped with a pair of engaging members at one end, extend from an upper surface of the base members. The engaging members face each other at one end. The engaging members include a plurality of flexible teeth that interface with a plurality of rotational faces located in a pair of rotational apertures located in a housing. The housing is attached to the pair of stems by the engaging member, enabling the housing to rotate 360 degrees on an axis created by the stems.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Best Lighting Products, Inc.Inventors: Albert Alvin Katz, Richard Melbourne Haughton
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Publication number: 20010025909Abstract: In a visor side bracket 5, a sun visor is arranged in a lower surface side, a shaft supporting portion 8 fitting a fixing shaft 4 to an upper surface side is protruded, and a guide portion 12 is formed near a peripheral wall portion of the shaft supporting portion 8. On the contrary, a guide groove 23 structured such that the guide portion 12 is inserted in a sliding manner by assembling the visor side bracket 5 is formed in a panel side bracket 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2001Publication date: October 4, 2001Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Sawayanagi
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Patent number: 6269573Abstract: An information tag (100) for use on a elongate object (200), which tag (100) comprises a tag body (10) having a surface (11/12) for displaying information and a ring (16), and a separate clamp (20) for connecting the tag body (10) to the object (200). The clamp (20) is openable to present two ends (22A) and subsequently closable for connection to the object (200), with the two ends (22A) being restricted close together by the ring (16) of the tag body (10).Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: BHS International, Inc.Inventor: Boman K Najmi
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Patent number: 6237886Abstract: A vehicle light attachment mechanism is disclosed for attaching a vehicle light to a vehicle body. The attachment mechanism includes a pair of hooks arranged on the vehicle light, one of which is elastic and the other of which is non-elastic. Each hook can engage an aperture of the vehicle body in opposing directions. A positioning boss can be placed adjacent either the elastic hook or the non-elastic hook for extending through a positioning through hole on the vehicle body having a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the positioning boss. Furthermore, at least one projection boss may be provided to distance the housing and the vehicle body and spread external forces applied from the vehicle light toward the vehicle body over an outer surface of the vehicle body. At least one projection boss can also be used as a positioning boss to provide at least two positioning points in combination with said positioning boss for the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Katsumata, Masaki Konaka
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Patent number: 6193198Abstract: An assembly is mounted and secured on a support by at least one securing bolt that is pre-installed in the assembly and engages a keyhole-shaped opening provided in the support. The head of the bolt is inserted through the larger portion of the keyhole opening and then slidingly displaced so the bolt shaft is engaged in the narrower portion of the keyhole opening and the bolt head is secured behind the support. A safety cap is initially mounted on the bolt to cover the tool engagement surfaces of the bolt, and the cap is inserted in the opening together with the bolt. As the assembly is slidingly displaced relative to the support, the safety cap is pushed off the bolt to expose the tool engagement surfaces, by contact of stop surfaces of the safety cap with stop surfaces of the support. The safety cap thereby prevents engagement of a tightening tool with the bolt, until the bolt has surely reached its proper securing position.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Richard Baur, Engelbert Woerle