IP Library Granted Patent US 9,585,442
Granted Patent B1
US 9,585,442 · App. 14/231,142 · Granted Mar 7, 2017

Zip-locker system and apparatus

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Patent No.
US 9,585,442
App. No.
14/231,142
Granted
Mar 7, 2017
Kind
B1
Abstract

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a system comprising a zip-locker and a zip-locker receiver. The zip-locker comprises a first portion and a second portion configured to fasten to an interconnect, at least one of the first portion and the second portion having ratchet teeth formed and extending longitudinally on an outer surface thereof. The zip-locker receiver is configured to ratchetably receive the zip-locker and comprises an aperture and a pawl disposed within the aperture configured to complement and cooperate with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker to prevent removal of the zip-locker from the aperture of the zip-locker receiver at times the pawl of the zip-locker receiver is engaged with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker.

Claims (14)

1. A system comprising:

a zip-locker comprising a first portion and a second portion configured to fasten to an interconnect, at least one of the first portion and the second portion having ratchet teeth formed an extending longitudinally on an outer surface thereof; and

a zip-locker receiver, configured to ratchetably receive the zip-locker, comprising an aperture and a pawl disposed within the aperture configured to complement and cooperate with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker to prevent removal of the zip-locker from the aperture of the zip-locker receiver at times the pawl of the zip-locker receiver is engaged with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker,

wherein the aperture comprises a flexible first arm and a flexible second arm configured to enable removal of the zip-locker from the aperture, the flexible first arm and the flexible second arm configured to flex outward from a center of the aperture upon application of a removal force to the zip-locker receiver, thereby enabling removal of the zip-locker from between the flexible first arm and the flexible second arm.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the first portion and the second portion are joined along an edge and hingedly configured to fasten to the interconnect.

3. The system of claim 2

wherein one of the first portion and the second portion includes a tab lock; and

wherein the other of the first portion and the second portion includes a tab configured to complement and cooperate with the tab lock of the one of the portion and the second portion to prevent unfastening of the first portion and the second portion from the interconnect at times the tab lock of the one of the first portion and the second portion is engaged with the tab of the other of the first portion and the second portion.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first portion and the second portion includes a gripper extending substantially perpendicularly from an inside surface of the at least one of the first portion and the second portion configured to grip the interconnect to prevent lateral movement of the zip-locker coaxially with the interconnect at times the zip-locker is fastened to the interconnect.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the zip-locker is configured to be inserted into the aperture of the zip-locker receiver in a first direction and wherein the aperture and the pawl are configured to prevent removal of the zip-locker from the aperture in a second direction substantially opposite of the first direction.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the aperture and the pawl are configured to allow removal of the zip-locker from the aperture by application of a removal force to the zip-locker receiver substantially in the first direction such that the entirety of the zip-locker passes through the aperture.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the zip-locker receiver further comprises a pawl release trigger configured to disengage the pawl from the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker to enable removal of the zip-locker from the aperture of the zip-locker receiver.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the zip-locker receiver further comprises a zip-locker removal tab enabled for application of a second removal force to the zip-locker removal tab substantially opposite to the removal force.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the system is configured to substantially align the interconnect toward a target.

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