Operation handle and handle main body structure for operation handle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10697206-B2
Application number	US-201715692104-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2017
Priority date	Mar 3, 2015
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

An operation handle which is linked to a shaft body and which is configured to operate the shaft body, the operation handle includes a handle main body, and a linking clip. The handle main body includes a cylindrical shape shaft body retaining portion fitted over the shaft body. The shaft body retaining portion includes a pair of clip-holding grooves. The linking clip includes a base portion and a pair of elastic legs which face each other via the base portion. Each of the pair of elastic legs includes a locking portion. The pair of elastic legs are inserted into the pair of the clip-holding grooves and the shaft body retaining portion is interposed from both sides by the pair of elastic legs and the linking clip is mounted in the shaft body retaining portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An operation handle which is linked to a shaft body and which is configured to operate the shaft body, the operation handle comprising:
a handle main body; and
a linking clip,
wherein the handle main body includes a cylindrical shape shaft body retaining portion fitted over the shaft body,
wherein the shaft body retaining portion includes a pair of clip-holding grooves,
wherein the linking clip includes a base portion and a pair of elastic legs which face each other via the base portion,
wherein each of the pair of elastic legs includes a locking portion,
wherein the pair of elastic legs are inserted into the pair of the clip-holding grooves and the shaft body retaining portion is interposed from both sides by the pair of elastic legs and the linking clip is mounted in the shaft body retaining portion,
wherein each of the locking portions extends further inside than an inner peripheral wall of the shaft body retaining portion,
wherein at least one of the pair of the clip-holding grooves includes a shape deforming portion which has a groove shape deformed from an insertion direction of the linking clip and which elastically deforms the elastic legs inserted into the clip-holding grooves along the groove shape, and
wherein one of the pair of the clip-holding grooves includes a straight region which is formed in a straight line shape based on the insertion direction of the linking clip and an inclined region which is continuous to the straight region and is inclined relative to the straight region.

2. The operation handle according to claim 1 ,
wherein in one of the pair of the clip-holding grooves, the straight region is positioned in a front side in the insertion direction of the linking clip, and the inclined region is positioned in a back side in the insertion direction of the linking clip.

3. The operation handle according to claim 1 ,
wherein one of the pair of the clip-holding grooves includes the shape deforming portion, and
wherein the other of the pair of the clip-holding grooves is formed in a straight line shape in which a groove shape is uniform according to the insertion direction of the linking clip.

4. A handle main body of an operation handle which is linked to a shaft body via a linking clip which includes a pair of elastic legs which face each other via a base portion, the handle main body comprising:
a main body portion; and
a cylindrical shape shaft body retaining portion fitted over the shaft body,
wherein the shaft body retaining portion has a pair of clip-holding grooves formed on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft body retaining portion,
wherein when the pair of elastic legs are inserted into the pair of the clip-holding grooves, the shaft body retaining portion is configured that the shaft body retaining portion is interposed from both sides by the pair of elastic legs and that the linking clip is mounted in the shaft body retaining portion,
wherein the shaft body retaining portion is configured that a locking portion of the pair of elastic legs extends further inside than an inner peripheral wall of the shaft body retaining portion, and
wherein at least one of the pair of the clip-holding grooves includes a shape deforming portion which deforms the groove shape according to an insertion direction of the linking clip and elastically deforms the elastic legs inserted into the clip-holding grooves along the groove shape, and
wherein one of the pair of the clip-holding grooves includes a straight region which is formed in a straight line shape based on the insertion direction of the linking clip and an inclined region which is continuous to the straight region and is inclined relative to the straight region.

5. An operation handle which is linked to a shaft body and which is configured to operate the shaft body, the operation handle comprising:
a handle main body; and
a linking clip,
wherein the handle main body includes a cylindrical shape shaft body retaining portion fitted over the shaft body,
wherein the shaft body retaining portion includes a pair of clip-holding grooves,
wherein the linking clip includes a base portion and a pair of elastic legs which face each other via the base portion,
wherein each of the pair of elastic legs includes a locking portion,
wherein the pair of elastic legs are inserted into the pair of the clip-holding grooves and the shaft body retaining portion is interposed from both sides by the pair of elastic legs and the linking clip is mounted in the shaft body retaining portion,
wherein each of the locking portions extends further inside than an inner peripheral wall of the shaft body retaining portion,
wherein one of the pair of the clip-holding grooves includes a shape deforming portion which has a groove shape deformed from an insertion direction of the linking clip and which elastically deforms the elastic legs inserted into the clip-holding grooves along the groove shape, and
wherein the other of the pair of the clip-holding grooves is formed in a straight line shape in which a groove shape is uniform according to the insertion direction of the linking clip.

Assignees

• Alpha Corp

Inventors

• IKENOYA Kazuto
• SOYA Koji

Classifications

• F16D1/116 Primary

  the interengaging parts including a continuous or interrupted circumferential groove in the surface of one of the coupling parts (circlips for retaining hubs on shafts F16B21/18) · CPC title

• F16B21/186

  external, i.e. with contracting action · CPC title

• F16B21/18

  with circlips or like resilient retaining devices, {i.e. resilient in the plane of the ring or the like}; Details (spring-washers for locking nuts F16B39/24; adjusting rings F16B43/00) · CPC title

• E05F11/38

  for sliding windows, e.g. vehicle windows, to be opened or closed by vertical movement · CPC title

• E05B79/06 Primary

  Mounting of handles, e.g. to the wing or to the lock · CPC title