IP Library Granted Patent US 9,356,437
Granted Patent B2
US 9,356,437 · App. 14/186,332 · Granted May 31, 2016

Temporary fixation boss and electrical junction box

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Patent No.
US 9,356,437
App. No.
14/186,332
Granted
May 31, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A temporary fixation boss includes: a shaft portion; a flared portion; and claw portions. The shaft portion has a diameter smaller than a diameter of an insertion hole. The flared portion is provided at one end of the shaft portion in a manner to be flared in multi steps from an outer periphery of the shaft portion throughout the whole circumference of the shaft portion. The claw portions are so formed that a distance from the shaft center of the shaft portion to a tip end of the claw portions in a radial direction of the shaft portion is larger than a distance from the shaft center to a tip end of the flared portion, and smaller than a distance from the shaft center to the inner edges of the insertion hole when the shaft center is aligned with the center axis of the insertion hole.

Claims (24)

1. A temporary fixation system comprising a temporary fixation boss and an insertion hole formed in a circle shape, the temporary fixation boss comprising:

a shaft portion having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the insertion hole;

a flared portion flared singularly or collectively throughout a whole circumference on an outer periphery of the shaft portion and disposed at one end of the shaft portion, said flared portion having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the insertion hole; and

a claw portion projected from an outer periphery of the flared portion, and a distance from a shaft center of the shaft portion to a tip of the claw portion in a radial direction of the shaft portion being longer than a distance from the shaft center to a tip of the flared portion and shorter than a distance from the shaft center to an inner edge of the insertion hole when the shaft center is aligned with the center of the insertion hole,

wherein the claw portion is formed on the outer periphery of the flared portion so that a projection length of the claw portion from the shaft center becomes larger as extending toward the other end from the one end of the shaft portion, and has a width expanded along a circumferential direction of the shaft portion, and

wherein the width of the claw portion has a size to be able to abut on an inner edge of the insertion hole in response to a positional gap between the shaft center and the center of the insertion hole.

2. The temporary fixation system as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein at least one claw portion is respectively provided on opposing outer sides in the radial direction of the shaft portion with the shaft center being a center of symmetry.

3. The temporary fixation system as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein at least two of the claw portions are shifted from each other along a shaft direction of the shaft portion.

4. The temporary fixation system as claimed in claim 1 ,

wherein the diameter of the flared portion becomes larger as extended toward the other end from the one end of the shaft portion.

5. An electrical junction box comprising:

a first mounted portion through which an electrical junction box main body is mounted on a first mounting portion of a mounting side;

a second mounted portion configured to be mounted on a second mounting portion of the mounting side, and to be rotated about the first mounted portion mounted on the first mounting portion until mounted on the second mounting portion,

wherein the temporary fixation boss as claimed in claim 1 is arranged adjacent to the second mounted portion, and

wherein the boss is inserted into the insertion hole arranged adjacent to the second mounting portion of the mounting side from the one end of the shaft portion to prevent the second mounted portion from rotating.

6. The electrical junction box as claimed in claim 5 ,

wherein the first mounted portion and the second mounted portion are opposite to each other via the electrical junction box main body.

7. The electrical junction box as claimed in claim 5 ,

wherein at least one claw portion is projected from each of both outsides along a direction from the first mounted portion toward the second mounted portion among radial directions of the shaft portion.

8. The electrical junction box as claimed in claim 7 ,

wherein the claw portion away from the first mounted portion is arranged at a tip side of the boss, and the claw portion near the first mounted portion is arranged at a base side of the boss, and

wherein any one of the tip side claw portion and the base side claw portion abuts on the inner edge of the insertion hole from the base side in response to a positional gap between the shaft center of the boss and the center of the insertion hole.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 28, 2014
From: SUZUKI, MASANOBU; SHIRAIWA, HIROKI; TSUKUI, SHIGEHARU
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033631/0366 →