Abstract: A roof top air conditioner unit for a vehicle, in particular a recreational vehicle, wherein the roof top air conditioner at least in part is made of expanded polypropylene (EPP). At least one stabilizing and/or connecting element of the roof top air conditioner unit is mold in the section of the roof top air conditioner unit made of EPP. Furthermore, the present invention refers to a method for producing, assembling and installing such roof top air conditioner units and a vehicle having such a roof top air conditioner assembly.

Abstract: A method for forming a stop flange on a self-tapping screw includes locating a shank of a self-tapping screw between two threading dies, fixing one of the two threading dies and moving the other one of the two threading dies to work the shank, the external thread forming section of each of the threading dies performing threading to form an external thread on the shank, inserting the insert and the recessed corner of each of the threading dies into a top of the external thread to form a groove in the shank, and the insert of each of the threading dies gradually squeezing downward an extruded portion that is formed during formation of the groove to form a stop flange on the shank. Thus, the shank is integrally formed with the stop flange, to stop an excessive movement of the external thread.

Abstract: A bone fastener includes a head, and a screw portion extends from the head. The screw portion includes a shaft and a thread extending along and about the shaft. The thread has a height extending from a root to a tip thereof. The thread also has first and second portions disposed between the root and the tip. The second portion has a porous structure configured to promote bone ingrowth and has a porosity greater than that of the first portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for a bone conduction implant, comprising a bone fixture including a screw thread configured to screw into a skull, wherein at least a section of the screw thread is non-uniform.

Abstract: The present invention provides a looseness-prevention screw thread structure including a screw thread having a predetermined pitch, a no-load flank which is an inclined surface in a direction in which the screw thread is advanced, and a load flank which is an inclined surface in a direction in which the screw thread is retracted, the no-load flank and the load flank being formed at both sides of the screw thread, in which the no-load flank of the screw thread includes: a first tangential portion which abuts against an arc portion formed at a thread crest of an opposing fastening object; and a second tangential portion which has a preset angle with respect to the first tangential portion and abuts against the arc portion.

Abstract: To provide a fastener having a high anti-loosening effect. A fastener has a thread structure including an upper portion of the crest and a bottom portion at the groove. The upper portion has a load flank surface inclined from the standard load flank surface toward the fastener seat while the bottom has an undercut on at least one of the groove side lower than the extension of the corresponding flank surface.

Abstract: The sealing device 100 of a container 1 is provided with an inner plug 10 and an upper closure 20. The inner plug 10 has a separation part 12 for forming an opening by separation. A first screwing part 51 for attachment of the upper closure 20 is provided between the inner plug 10 and the upper closure 20. The upper closure 20 has an inner cylinder part 20c which is a support part catching a separation part 12 by a second screwing part 52 in opening the plug and separating the separation part 12 from the inner plug 10. The second screwing part 52 is in a reverse thread relation with respect to the first screwing part 51 and has a barb-shape which facilitates pushing the separation part 12 into the inner cylinder part 20c rather than withdrawing the separation part from the inner cylinder part 20c.

Abstract: A device for treating fractures, comprises a plate receiving structure including on a bone facing side thereof a recess sized and shaped to receive a fixation plate anchored in a desired position on a bone and a mating structure sized and located to engage a corresponding structure of the fixation plate to prevent relative movement between the fixation plate and the device in combination with at least one leg projecting laterally away from the recess, a first one of the at least one legs including a first fixation element receiving hole extending therethrough, the first leg being positioned and oriented so that, when the device is received on a fixation plate anchored to the bone in the desired position, the first fixation element receiving hole is aligned to pass a fixation element inserted therethrough into the bone without passing through a longitudinal axis of the medullary canal.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool with a quick-clamping device for a working element includes a working mandrel for driving the working element, a fastening member for fastening the working element onto the end of the working mandrel, and a locking assembly. The fastening member includes a clamping shaft insertable into the working mandrel and a moving assembly for making the fastening member moveable between a releasing position and a clamping position. The locking assembly includes a floatable clamping component and the clamping component and the clamping shaft are provided with corresponding toothed portions such that engagement and disengagement therebetween is selectively achieved by the relative rotation of the toothed portions.

Abstract: A fastener includes an elongated body having a first end and a second end, a helical thread having a crest, a root, and flank portions formed on at least a portion of the elongated body, and at least one protrusion extending from the crest and flank portion. The at least one protrusion is an axially extending V-shape of the crest, flank portions, and root of the helical thread with a peak of the at least one protrusion having a ridge that extends radially outward from the root of the thread.

Abstract: A threaded connector includes a base and a threaded male portion projecting axially outward from the base. The threaded male portion is adapted to mate with an associated threaded female socket. The threaded male portion includes a helical thread comprising three sections: (i) a lead-in section; (ii) a transitional cam-locking section; and, (iii) a friction-locking section. The friction-locking section is located adjacent the base, the lead-in section is spaced from the base, and the transitional cam-locking section connects the lead-in section to the friction-locking section. The helical thread includes a tip and a root. The lead-in section is defined by a first major diameter at the tip of said thread and the friction-locking section is defined by a second major diameter at the tip of the thread. The second major diameter is greater than the first major diameter.

Abstract: A fastening member that exerts a high loosening-inhibition effect is provided. A fastening member 1 has an upper portion 11 on a thread top portion side and a lower portion 12 on a thread root side in at least a part of a thread 10. The upper portion 11 and the lower portion 12 have following constructions. A pressure-side flank surface 13 and a play-side flank surface 14 are formed on the upper portion 11. A pressure-side side surface 15 and a play-side side surface 16 are formed on the lower portion 12. The pressure-side side surface 15 is formed to be continuous from a lower end of the pressure-side flank surface 13.

Abstract: A spiral body lock including a mandrel; a sleeve; and at least one of the mandrel and sleeve including a male component, the other of the mandrel and the sleeve including a recess receptive to the male component at least one of the recess and the male component being helically configured and method.

Abstract: A bone screw comprising a threaded shank having a longitudinal axis and including a first helical threading extending along a first length of the threaded shank portion and a second helical threading extending from a location proximately adjacent the first helical threading and along a second length of the threaded shank portion. The first helical threading defines a first volume between adjacent thread turns along the first length, and the second helical threading defines a second volume between adjacent thread turns along the second length, with the first volume being different from the second volume.

Abstract: A connection element (1) has a thread (2) that can be made to engage with a mating thread such as, for instance, a nut. The thread includes locking means (3) that acts upon the mating thread. The locking means (3) are formed by flanks (4, 5; 6, 7, 8, 9) of at least one section (10; 11) of the thread (2) whose arrangement with respect to each other is changed vis-à-vis the arrangement of the flanks (18, 19) of the thread (2) outside of the locking section (10; 11) in such a way that, when the thread (2) engages with the mating thread, a locking force is generated on at least one of the flanks (4, 5; 6, 7, 8, 9) of the locking section (10; 11).

Abstract: A threaded engagement element comprising a body having a longitudinal axis and a thread adapted to be received by a corresponding thread of a second element. The threads are characterized by a thread parameter. The body has first and second portions that each has a different value for the thread parameter. The body may have more than one thread count or more than one geometry. This configuration creates a threaded engagement element with self-locking threads, which prevents unintentional loosening.

Abstract: A screw comprising a first member having a plurality of alternating first thread ridges and first thread grooves, a ridge width of the first thread ridges being larger than a groove width of the first thread grooves at a measurement diameter of the first member. The measurement diameter is determined by calculating a pitch diameter of a hypothetical member having a plurality of hypothetical thread grooves and hypothetical thread ridges, with the hypothetical thread grooves being identical to the first thread grooves, and with the hypothetical thread ridges and the hypothetical thread grooves having identical, but opposite, profiles, and with the measurement diameter being identical to the pitch diameter of the hypothetical member.

Abstract: The thread form can provide a controlled thread stiffness which can more evenly distribute loads and can be less sensitive to changes in relative pitch. The controlled stiffness of the thread can provide a desired cantilever bending of the thread under assembled load. The thread form can utilize a traditional thread form at and/or above the pitch diameter, thereby maintaining the area of contact close to that of a standard thread form. Standard gaging implements can be used to ascertain the thread pitch and for quality control. The thread form includes a side extending between the crest and the root. The side has a first portion extending from the crest toward the root and the second portion extending from the first portion toward the root. The first and second portions extend toward the root in different orientations relative to the thread.

Abstract: A thread locking fastener assembly comprising a nut anchor defining an internal thread having a longitudinal axis, a leading face and a trailing face, the internal thread, in axial section, having a profile which is symmetric about a first imaginary line extending radially out from the axis, and a fastener shank having an external thread with a longitudinal axis, a leading face and trailing face, the external thread being received in said internal thread so that said axes are substantially coincident. The external thread, in axial section, has a profile with a radially inner base zone which is symmetric about a second imaginary line extending radially from the shank axis and a radially outer deflectable addendum which is not symmetric about that line so that the addendum prevents axial centralization of the external thread profile in the internal thread profile unless a sufficient axial force is applied to the shank to deflect the addendum.

Abstract: A variably threaded screw has a first end and a second end, the first end of the shaft terminating in a tip and the second end having a widened head thereon. A first helical thread portion is located on the shaft adjacent the widened head. A second helical thread portion is located on the shaft adjacent the tip of the shaft. A third helical thread portion is located on the shaft between the first helical thread portion and the second helical thread portion. The first helical thread portion and the second helical thread portion have right hand thread pitches. The third helical thread portion has a left hand thread pitch. A helical ridge having a right hand thread pitch intersects the third helical thread portion.

Abstract: A threaded fastener includes a curved-line path thread provided in a helical pattern along a shank of the fastener. The curved-line path can be provided on either side of the standard straight-line path or on opposite sides of the straight-line path. The curved-line path and can be provided on all or a portion of the thread from near the tip end thereof to near the head end thereof.

Abstract: Improved bone anchors are disclosed for anchoring one or more sutures attached to soft tissue to a bone. The bone anchor has an anchor body that extends between a distal and a proximal end. A bore is formed axially in the anchor body and opens at the proximal end. One or more pins are fixed within the bore of the anchor body. One or more sutures can be looped on the pins for anchoring soft tissue to bone. The anchor body has a socket within the bore for receiving a driver tool. The distal end of the anchor body forms a non-threaded extension, which stabilizes the bone anchor, and helps prevent lateral movement during use. In one embodiment, the anchor body has coarse threads for engaging soft bone tissue and fine threads for engaging hard bone tissue.

Abstract: A flat portion 12a and a slope portion 12b are provided on a thread 12 of a multi-pitch screw 10 alternately. The flat portion and the slope portion are provided on the thread of a multi-pitch nut which fastens with this. Consequently, a screw and a nut capable of preventing loosening securely by step are achieved. This enables comfortable and quick feeding and when a torque from a driving source is interrupted, step-like self-lock is activated.

Abstract: A looseness resisting screw formed with an external thread includes a first thread area having a substantially uniform outer diameter and a second thread area extended from the first thread area toward a leading end of the screw. The second thread area has a plurality of fractional lead parts each of which has an outer thread diameter increasing along a helical direction of the fractional lead part from a start point to an end point, and the outer thread diameter is substantially equal to a thread root diameter at the start point, while the outer thread diameter is equal to a thread top diameter at the end point. The fractional lead part has a thread sectional area increasing along the helical direction from the start point to the end point, and the thread top diameter of the fractional lead part is slightly larger at the end point than the substantially uniform outer diameter of the first thread area so that the second thread area provides a tapping thread section.

Abstract: A threaded fastener comprises a first, primary thread lead, and a pair of second, auxiliary thread leads alternatively interposed between successive threads of the first, primary thread lead, except within the vicinity of the tip portion of the fastener so as to define space for accommodating debris generated during the self-tapping of the fastener into a workpiece. The fastener also comprises lobe members formed upon the primary thread lead so as to predeterminedly affect torque insertion and pull-out resistance values.

Abstract: A threaded fastener includes a lead having bosses separated from one another by bases along the thread crest. The lead-in and lead-out profiles of the bosses, and other features of the bosses and bases may differ from one another along the fastener shank. The lead-in and lead out profiles may have linear and non-linear surfaces. The lead-in and lead-out profiles may have cutting edges angled toward the direction of propagation of the bosses. The boss profiles may be selected to reduce insertion torque and to provide excellent resistance to pullout. The fastener may be formed by roll threading via a tool made by a plunge EDM process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a screw fastener comprising a threaded shank having a force application means for torque transmission and a screw fastener point. The threaded shank consists of a shank core and a self-tapping thread, and the thread is designed as a prominence which runs helically over the shank core, is defined by two flanks meeting in an outer thread edge and has a radial height (H). The outer thread edge, at least in a section of the thread, runs in a wavelike manner in the radial direction with an amplitude between wave crests having the height (H) and wave troughs having a height (h) reduced by the amplitude.

Abstract: The screw with a plurality of helix angles comprises a first section having a first thread with a first helix angle, at least one third section having a third thread with a third helix angle; and a fifth section having a fifth thread with a fifth helix angle wherein the fifth thread is identical to the first thread. The third helix angle is equal or not equal to the first helix angle. Moreover, the screw further comprises a second section connected between the first section and the third section; the second section having a second thread with a second helix angle; a fourth section connected between the third section and the fifth section; and the fourth section having a fourth thread with a fourth helix angle. A mold device for forming the screw is also included. The mold device further comprises a second mold line-symmetrical to the first mold.

Abstract: A metal fastener for frangible material has a threaded shank, a head proximate one end of the shank and a tip at the opposite end. The fastener has a coarse pitch and relatively large ratio of major to minor diameters suited for securing the fastener into frangible material such as drywall or masonry.

Abstract: A pull type swage fastener including a pin and a collar adapted to be swaged into a locking portion on the pin shank and with a removable mandrel being threadably securable in a pull cavity at the end of the pin shank and with the mandrel adapted to be gripped by an installation tool for applying a relative axial force between the pin and collar to swage the collar into the locking portion with the mandrel being releasable from the tool and removable from the pull cavity.

Abstract: A male threaded fastening member is provided with depressions in at least one or several helix wraps of the thread adjacent the head, the depressions extending inwardly from an edge of the thread at least part way toward a shank of the male fastening member. In a fastening system including the male fastening member, a female member includes projections for engaging the depressions.

Abstract: A high-pressure connection device with a housing having a receiving opening into which an inlet conduit discharges. A pressure tube connector stub discharges on one end into an end face of the connector stub and has a male thread, which engages a female thread in the receiving opening press a sealing face on the connector stub into the receiving opening into contact with a seat face of the receiving opening. Both threads are embodied as sawtooth threads, and the thread flanks, which are embodied at least approximately perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the female thread, rest on one another with nonpositive engagement in the tensed state.

Abstract: An anchoring screw with triple threads of different depths of thread especially useful for coupling with a construction hole on a cement wall (or other construction boards and panels) includes a first bolt section, a tool driven section and a second bolt section. The second bolt section has a first screw thread, a second screw thread and a third screw thread of different depths of thread formed on the outer surface that are spaced from one another at 120 degrees. Thus, the screw threads can gather extruded cement debris when the screw is fastened into the construction hole to produce a stronger fastening effect. As there is no expansion incurred, the wall or board does not crack. Therefore, the interval between the construction holes may be shortened, and the number of construction holes may be increased in a given unit area. The anchoring screw of the invention also may be removed easily and conveniently to facilitate construction.

Abstract: A threaded fastener includes a lead having bosses separated from one another by bases along the thread crest. Two such leads may be formed such that lead-in profiles for of one lead are disposed at locations corresponding to locations of lead-out profiles for the other lead. The lead-in and lead-out profiles of the bossed, and other features of the bosses and bases may differ from one another along the fastener shank. The boss profiles may be selected to reduce insertion torque and to provide excellent resistance to pullout. The fastener may be formed by roll threading via a tool made by a plunge EDM process.

Abstract: As to a weaker screw between the internal screw and the external screw, the width of a thread ridge of an internal screw and an external screw which mutually mesh in the position of its standard pitch diameter is formed greater than a width of a thread groove of a mating screw, thereby displacing the pitch diameter. This prevents failure of the weaker screw when under a load.

Abstract: A threaded locking beam nut having a plurality of locking beams configured such that the inside edge surface of each locking beam has a radially inwardly angled surface thereby forming substantially a V-shaped channel between adjacent beams.

Abstract: The invention is based on a hydraulic device having a nut part with a threaded hole which has an internal screw thread with a defined nominal diameter and with a defined, uniform pitch, and having a screw part which has an external screw thread with the same nominal diameter as the threaded hole and with a defined, uniform pitch, which is screwed into the threaded hole. In hydraulic devices, screw parts, in particular nozzle bodies, are generally adhesively bonded in place, in order to prevent them from becoming detached. Adhesive bonding has certain drawbacks, since the screw threads have to be free of grease, and in the case of nozzles there is a risk of blockages, adhesive can enter the hydraulic circuit and also process reliability is not ensured during application.

Abstract: A torque prevailing stud having a male component made of a shank with an outer wall that is threaded, a gripping component formed on the shank, and a wedge ramp rolled in a portion of the threaded outer wall. A female component having a body with a threaded bore that is used for engaging the male component. The threaded bore of the female component matingly engages a portion of the threaded outer wall and the wedge ramp when screwed thereon. The wedge ramp forces the threaded bore to conform to the shape of the wedge ramp thereby securing the male and female components together in a torque prevailing fit.

Abstract: A threaded member such as a bolt, nut, or pipe has a threaded portion on a body of the member. The threaded portion of the member includes a first threaded section, a second threaded section, and a third threaded section. The first and third threaded section have standard threads which comprise standard roots, flanks, and crests. The second section is between the first and third sections and has threads in which a portion of the threads are raised relative to the standard threads to define bumps. The raised sections or bumps comprise a raised root, a raised flank, and a raised crest. The raised root and raised crest define diameters different from the diameters of the standard root and standard crest, respectively. In a exteriorly threaded member, the raised root and crest have diameters greater than the diameter of the standard root and crest, respectively. In interiorly threaded member, the raised root and crest define diameters smaller than the diameters of the standard root and crest, respectively.

Abstract: This invention relates to a bolt comprising a bolt shank formed at an outer peripheral surface thereof with external threads, and a nut formed at an inner peripheral surface thereof with internal threads, comprising a latch means for latching the nut with the bolt shank, which is provided on at least one of the bolt shank and the nut, the nut being separatable from the bolt shank and capable of being screwed onto the bolt shank, wherein the nut is movable relative to the bolt shank in a state of being screwed onto the bolt shank, when a larger torque than a predetermined torque is applied to the nut while the latch means latches the nut with the bolt shank.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to prevent the encroaching and the seizure between the bolt and the female screw caused by an oblique screwing of the bolt into the female screw when the bolt and the female screw are fastened together. Another object of the present invention is to manufacture the bolt in a low cost, by using said bolt, the encroaching and the seizure between the bolt and the female screw caused by a oblique screwing of the bolt into the female screw are certainly prevented. Said objects may be attained by a bolt consisting of a column part and a polygonal pillar part extending from an end of said column part wherein a complete thread is formed on said column part and a screw blade continuing to said complete thread is formed on said polygonal pillar part.

Abstract: An inner barrel includes a male helicoid, and an outer barrel includes a female helicoid which can engage with the male helicoid of the inner barrel. The included angle of trapezoidal threads of the male helicoid are identical to an included angle of trapezoidal grooves of the female helicoid in a section perpendicular to a direction of an extension of the threads.

Abstract: The present invention provides a male screwthread that does not loosen. In a male screwthread that has a thread ridge formed on an outer peripheral surface of an axial portion and a head portion that forms a tool mating means at one end of this axial portion, loosening and return between the male screwthread and a female screwthread is prevented (self-locking) by a configuration in which the thread ridge thereof is formed to have a major diameter that is larger than a reference value and the half-angle of the head-portion side of the thread ridge is formed to be less than 30 degrees.

Abstract: A male screw which has a protrusion protruding from a thread thereof at least with regard to the normal direction to a flank of the thread. To obtain such male screw, a blank is introduced between rolling dies which are moved relative to one another and is rolled between the rolling dies to be formed with a thread. In this thread rolling process, the rolling pressure on an area of a die face of at least one of the rolling dies is determined to be higher than that in ordinary thread rolling process and the rear end portion of the area of the die face is made to bite into the blank, causing the corresponding portion of the blank to be forced out to form the protrusion.

Abstract: An osteosynthesis device having a bone screw, particularly a pedicle screw, a fork head that has a groove and a corrective pin seated in the groove of the fork head. A corrective pin is secured against twisting in that the bottom of the groove of the fork head is provided with a plurality of longitudinal slots lying parallel to one another.

Abstract: A method of designing a skeletal implant comprises measuring the width, height, and elastic modulus of the bone to be implanted, generating a macro-design of the implant based on the width and height of the bone, and determining a micro-design for the implant, based on the measured elastic modulus, to ensure that strain in the bone is kept in a range to promote bone growth and to minimize bone resorption, during functional loading. For threaded implants, the shape of the thread is chosen so that bone strain adjacent the threaded attachment surface of the implant is between about 100 and 3000 microstrain. A device for implanting into the existing bone and for attaching a dental prosthesis thereto has a crest portion, a base portion, and a configuration for securing the base portion to the existing bone.

Abstract: A high-strength bolt and a high-strength nut is suited for use in combination with a standardized nut and a standardized bolt, respectively. The high-strength bolt and the high-strength nut have an external triangular thread and an internal triangular thread, respectively, of which the angle no greater than the range of each thread ridge differs by an angle of 0.degree.55' to 2.degree. from the angle of standardized thread ridges.

Abstract: A fastening screw is provided with a locking function to prevent loosening thereof after being tightened.

Abstract: A reduced-friction screw is described. The screw requires less turning torque than a conventional screw to drive it into a workpiece. The shaft of the screw has a reduced-thickness thread that produces less sliding friction than a conventional screw having thread of the same depth and pitch. In addition, the holding ability of the reduced-friction screw is substantially the same as a conventional screw having thread of the same pitch and depth. Another embodiment contains a shaft having a reduced diameter, to further reduce sliding friction. Yet another embodiment contains a segmented, reduced-thickness thread that resists removal and loosening when the workpiece is subject to twisting, vibration, or warping. To prevent loosening of the reduced-friction screw, the bottom of the screw head may contain protrusions to increase the frictional contact of the head with the workpiece.

Abstract: A bone screw having a helical thread with a constant outside diameter and curling around a tapered core. The fine screw tip and thread at the tip of the screw can be inserted into a bone with minimal tearing or cracking of the bone. The thicker core just below the screw head increases the screw's ability to withstand compressive and distractive loads. The core is thickest just below the head because it is at that point on the screw that the fulcrum loads are greatest.