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Granted Patent B2
US 12,092,141 · App. 17/948,626 · Granted Sep 17, 2024

Screw having stacked screw heads

Inventor: Tzu-Chih Lin (Hsinchu, TW)
Assignee: ALPHA NETWORKS INC.
F16B31/021F16B41/005
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,092,141
App. No.
17/948,626
Granted
Sep 17, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A screw having stacked screw heads includes a screw shank portion with a thread and a screw head portion rigidly connected to each other. The screw head portion is driven to bring the screw shank portion to rotate. The screw head portion includes a first screw head and a second screw head. The first screw head has a first shaped groove on its top plane to receive an operating torque. A neck portion is connected to a bottom plane of the first screw head and a top plane of the second screw head. The second screw head has a second shaped groove on its top plane. The neck portion or the connection between the neck portion and the first screw head or the second screw head has lower torsional endurance than each of the first screw head and the second screw head.

Claims (12)

1. A screw having stacked screw heads, comprising:

a screw shank portion wrapped with a thread and being adapted to be engaged in a substrate component;

a screw head portion connected to the screw shank portion and driven to bring the screw shank portion to rotate, comprising:

a first screw head having a first shaped groove formed on a top plane of the first screw head wherein the first screw head rotates in response to an operating torque applied through the first shaped groove; and

a second screw head having a second shaped groove formed on a top plane of the second screw head wherein a neck portion is connected to the top plane of the second screw head and a bottom plane of the first screw head, and a bottom plane of the second screw head is rigidly connected to the screw shank portion, wherein a portion of the second shaped groove is hidden by the first screw head and the other portion of the second shaped groove is exposed from the first screw head via the first shaped groove,

wherein connection between the neck portion and the first screw head or the second screw head has lower torsional endurance than each of the first screw head and the second screw head, or the neck portion has lower torsional endurance than each of the first screw head and the second screw head.

2. The screw according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first screw head, the neck portion and the second screw head has a circular shape, and a contact area between the neck portion and the bottom plane of the first screw head is smaller than a bottom area of the first screw head.

3. The screw according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first screw head, the neck portion and the second screw head has a circular shape, and a contact area between the neck portion and the top plane of the second screw head is smaller than a top area of the second screw head.

4. The screw according to claim 1 , wherein the neck portion and the first screw head are made of different materials.

5. The screw according to claim 1 , wherein the neck portion and the second screw head are made of different materials.

6. The screw according to claim 1 , wherein the first shaped groove and the top plane of the first screw head structurally form a slot screw drive or a cross screw drive.

7. The screw according to claim 1 , wherein the second shaped groove and the top plane of the second screw head structurally form a square screw drive, a hex socket screw drive, a pentalobe screw drive or a hexalobular socket screw drive.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 20, 2022
From: LIN, TZU-CHIH
To: ALPHA NETWORKS INC.
Reel/Frame 061152/0619 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 110139782 · Oct 27, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230125947A1 · Apr 27, 2023