IP Library Granted Patent US 10,322,686
Granted Patent B2
US 10,322,686 · App. 15/960,506 · Granted Jun 18, 2019

Grommet

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Patent No.
US 10,322,686
App. No.
15/960,506
Granted
Jun 18, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A grommet includes a hollow grommet main body comprising an elastic material and a protector placed in a hollow space of the grommet main body. The protector has a deep-side end portion located in a deep-side area of the hollow space, an opening-end-side end portion located in an opening-end-side area of the hollow space, and a protector-side engagement portion engaged with the grommet main body when the protector is placed in the grommet main body. The grommet main body has a grommet-main-body-side engagement portion to exert a preventive force to the protector-side engagement portion for preventing separation of the protector from the grommet main body, while eliminating a structure to exert the preventive force to the opening-end-side end portion.

Claims (11)

1. A grommet comprising:

a hollow grommet main body comprising an elastic material; and

a protector placed in a hollow space of the grommet main body,

the protector having: a deep-side end portion located in a deep-side area of the hollow space; an opening-end-side end portion located in an opening-end-side area of the hollow space; and a protector-side engagement portion engaged with the grommet main body upon the protector being placed in the grommet main body,

the grommet main body having a grommet-main-body-side engagement portion to exert a preventive force to the protector-side engagement portion configured to prevent separation of the protector from the grommet main body without separate pressing engagement between the protector and the grommet main body at the opening-end-side end portion.

2. The grommet according to claim 1 , wherein

the hollow space of the grommet main body has a bent portion to have a bent shape,

the protector has: a first protector portion extending toward one side from the bent portion along the shape of the hollow space; and a second protector portion extending toward the other side from the bent portion along the shape of the hollow space,

the protector-side engagement portion has a rib shape connecting an outer wall surface of the first protector portion and an outer wall surface of the second protector portion.

3. The grommet according to claim 1 , wherein the protector-side engagement portion projects outward in a width direction perpendicular to an insertion direction of the protector.

4. The grommet according to claim 3 , wherein the protector-side engagement portion is formed with plural projections which are spaced from each other in the insertion direction.

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 Apr 23, 2018
From: URASHIMA, TOMOHIRO; SASAKI, HIROYUKI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045615/0664 →