Device with adjustment bolt

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10323675-B2
Application number	US-201715617084-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 8, 2017
Priority date	Jun 24, 2016
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

A device with an adjustment bolt includes a bolt attachment wall, an adjustment bolt screwed with an internal thread hole of the bolt attachment wall, a locknut screwed with the adjustment bolt, a cover that surrounds the adjustment bolt and the locknut, and a stopper unit that prevents removal of the cover from the locknut. The stopper unit includes an inner circumference groove of the cover fitted around a C-shaped retaining ring, and an external circumference groove of the locknut fitting within the retaining ring. The external circumference groove includes a first groove portion having a large-diameter groove bottom that restricts contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove, and a second groove portion provided continuously for the first groove portion and having a small-diameter groove bottom that allows contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device with adjustment bolt comprising:
a bolt attachment wall having an internal thread hole;
an adjustment bolt screwed with the internal thread hole and attached to the bolt attachment wall;
a locknut screwed with the adjustment bolt;
a cover fitted around the locknut, the cover having a tubular unit that surrounds the adjustment bolt and the locknut; and
a stopper unit causing the cover to be in a removal disallowed state from the locknut,
wherein the stopper unit includes a retaining ring, an attachment inner circumference unit provided in the cover so as to allow internal attachment to the retaining ring in the removal disallowed state, and an external circumference groove provided on the locknut so as to allow external attachment to the retaining ring,
the external circumference groove includes a first groove portion and a second groove portion provided continuously with the first groove portion on a side of the bolt attachment wall, the first groove portion having a groove bottom that restricts removal of the retaining ring fitted within the attachment inner circumference unit from the attachment inner circumference unit due to contraction, the second groove portion having a groove bottom that allows removal of the retaining ring fitted within the attachment inner circumference unit from the attachment inner circumference unit due to contraction.

2. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 1 ,
wherein a circumferential face of the attachment inner circumference unit on the side of the bolt attachment wall provides an inclination-side circumferential face, a diameter of the inclination-side circumferential face decreasing toward the side of the bolt attachment wall.

3. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 1 ,
wherein at the inner circumferential portion of the cover, a tapered inner circumferential face is provided for the attachment inner circumference unit on the side of the bolt attachment wall, the tapered inner circumferential face being tapered inwardly, the tapered inner circumferential face having an opening portion whose diameter is larger than an external diameter of the retaining ring in an unlocked state.

4. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 1 ,
wherein the retaining ring is configured to be helical.

5. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 1 ,
wherein the attachment inner circumference unit is configured by an inner circumference groove.

6. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 1 ,
wherein the locknut is configured in a double-nut structure having a first locknut and a second locknut, the first locknut acting on the bolt attachment wall, the second locknut acting on the first locknut.

7. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 6 ,
wherein the second locknut is configured as a hexagon cap nut.

8. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 7 ,
wherein the cover is configured to have one of structures in which an end of the tubular unit on a side opposite of the bolt attachment wall is open, and in which the cover includes a cap portion having a hole.

9. A device with adjustment bolt comprising:
a bolt attachment wall having an internal thread hole;
an adjustment bolt screwed with the internal thread hole and attached to the bolt attachment wall;
a locknut screwed with the adjustment bolt;
a cover fitted around the locknut, the cover having a tubular unit that surrounds the adjustment bolt and the locknut; and
a stopper unit causing the cover to be in a removal disallowed state from the locknut,
wherein the stopper unit includes a retaining ring, an attachment inner circumference unit provided in the cover so as to allow internal attachment to the retaining ring in the removal disallowed state, and an external circumference groove provided on the locknut so as to allow external attachment to the retaining ring,
the external circumference groove includes a groove bottom that allows removal of the retaining ring fitted within the attachment inner circumference unit from the attachment inner circumference unit due to contraction,
an inclined face is provided on an outer circumferential portion of a side circumferential face of the external circumference groove on a side opposite of the bolt attachment wall, the inclined face generating an expanding force to expand the retaining ring by contact with the retaining ring fitted within the attachment inner circumference unit in an bolt axis direction.

10. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 9 ,
wherein at the inner circumferential portion of the cover, a tapered inner circumferential face is provided for the attachment inner circumference unit on the side of the bolt attachment wall, the tapered inner circumferential face being tapered inwardly, the tapered inner circumferential face having an opening portion whose diameter is larger than an external diameter of the retaining ring in an unlocked state.

11. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 9 ,
wherein the retaining ring is configured to be helical.

12. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 9 ,
wherein the attachment inner circumference unit is configured by an inner circumference groove.

13. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 9 ,
wherein the locknut is configured in a double-nut structure having a first locknut and a second locknut, the first locknut acting on the bolt attachment wall, the second locknut acting on the first locknut.

14. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 13 ,
wherein the second locknut is configured as a hexagon cap nut.

15. The device with adjustment bolt according to claim 14 ,
wherein the cover is configured to have one of structures in which an end of the tubular unit on a side opposite of the bolt attachment wall is open, and in which the cover includes a cap portion having a hole.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Oso Hiroki
• Sakurai Naoya
• Fukuda Takumi
• Okuda Mitsugu
• Iwanaga Wataru
• Suzuki Yusuke
• Kajihara Takahiro

Classifications

• F16B41/005

  Measures against unauthorised operation of bolts, nuts or pins (F16B23/0007, F16B23/0061, F16B23/0069, F16B23/0076 and F16B31/02 take precedence; locks, keys E05B; for valves, taps or cocks F16K35/00; for pipe-joints with swivel-nuts F16L19/005) · CPC title

• F16B37/14

  Cap nuts; Nut caps or bolt caps · CPC title

• F16B39/08

  with a cap interacting with the nut, connected to the bolt by a pin or cotter pin · CPC title

• F16B21/183 Primary

  internal, i.e. with spreading action · CPC title

• F16B39/12 Primary

  by means of locknuts · CPC title