Side Locked Patents (Class 411/934)
  • Patent number: 12377790
    Abstract: An assembly for mounting a sensor to a vehicle includes a base, a sensor bracket, and a tolerance compensator between the base and the sensor bracket. The tolerance compensator is threadedly coupled to the base and releasably engaged with the sensor bracket in an assembled position. The assembly includes a washer including a hub fixed relative to the base and a plurality of tabs arranged circumferentially around the hub and extending radially relative to the hub. One of the tabs is moveable into engagement with the tolerance compensator in the assembled position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Robertson, Jr., Tyler D. Hamilton, Kunal Chaudhari, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11933342
    Abstract: To provide a fastening structure for fastening a left-right screw intersection forming bolt, which has a simple structure and does not loosen. A right screw nut having a recess, an elastic member having a rotation-preventing protrusion and a tongue portion, and a left screw nut having a tapered surface and a recess are included. After the bolt is tightened with the right screw nut and the elastic member is mounted, the tongue portion of the elastic member is tightened while being pressed with the left screw nut, so that the tongue portion jumps up to the recess of the left screw nut, and the left screw nut is locked and fastened. As illustrated in FIG. 9, the fastening structure can also be configured by changing the right screw nut to a left screw nut, the elastic member to an elastic member, and the left screw nut to a right screw nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Shiro Hatakeyama