Cord lock

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10718404-B2
Application number	US-201716301947-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2017
Priority date	May 19, 2016
Publication date	Jul 21, 2020
Grant date	Jul 21, 2020

Abstract

A cord lock includes a female member having a first opening, a second opening, and an insertion passage for a string; and a male member entering one portion into the insertion passage from the first opening, and having, at the one portion, a male-side fastening portion to be fastened to the string inserted to pass through the insertion passage in cooperation with a female-side fastening portion formed inside the insertion passage. Fastening relative to the string is released by a pulling operation of reducing an entering amount of one portion of the male member into the insertion passage relative to the female member by gripping the string pulled out of the first opening, and by a pulling operation of reducing an entering amount of one portion of the male member into the insertion passage relative to the male member by gripping the string pulled out of the second opening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cord lock, comprising:
a female member including a first opening, a second opening, an insertion passage for a string ranging therebetween, a female-side fastening portion formed inside the insertion passage, and a leg member;
a male member including one portion entered into the insertion passage from a side of the first opening, and at the one portion thereof, a male-side fastening portion adapted to fasten the string inserted to pass through the insertion passage in cooperation with the female-side fastening portion: and
a spring member including one end portion attached to the leg member of the female member and another end portion attached to the one portion of the male member to be interposed between the female member and the male member, and urging the female member and the male member to pull each other,
wherein the female member or the male member is pulled to reduce an entering amount of the one portion of the male member into the insertion passage with gripping the string pulled out from the first opening side or the second opening side to be adapted to release the string fastened with the female member and the male member, and
finger-hooking portions for pulling the female member and the male member are formed in the female member and the male member.

2. A cord lock according to claim 1 , wherein the finger-hooking portions are formed in a direction crossing a length direction of the string.

3. A cord lock according to claim 1 , further comprising a wide front face portion and a back face portion,
wherein in at least one of the front face portion and the back face portion, the finger-hooking portions are formed respectively in the female member and the male member.

4. A cord lock according to claim 1 , further comprising a wide front face portion and a back face portion,
wherein at least one of the front face portion and the back face portion is formed in such a way as to be heightened as coming close to terminal sides of the cord lock from a center side of the cord lock in a length direction of the string, and has a shape on which a fingertip is adapted to be fitted between two terminals.

5. A cord lock according to claim 4 , wherein an outer face of the cord lock located between the two terminals becomes a face substantially following an arc of one virtual circle.

6. A cord lock according to claim 1 , wherein a center axis of the insertion passage is positioned on one virtual flat surface.

7. A cord lock according to claim 1 , wherein one of the male-side fastening portion and the female-side fastening portion is a face portion, another of the male-side fastening portion and the female-side fastening portion is a claw portion projecting toward the face portion, and an angle between at least a side portion of the claw portion facing the first opening side and the face portion becomes a substantially right angle.

8. A cord lock according to claim 7 , wherein the claw portion includes a plurality of claws provided at an interval therebetween.

9. A cord lock according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the finger-hooking portion of the female member and the finger-hooking portion of the male member includes a wrapping portion in a belt-shaped member.

10. A cord lock according to claim 1 , wherein
the female member includes:
a female-side main member portion having the first opening, the second opening, the insertion passage, and the female-side fastening portion, and
the leg member having two female-side leg portions apart from each other and protruding from the female-side main member toward the male member, and a spring holding member arranged between the two female-side leg portions; and

the male member includes:
a male-side main member,
a male-side leg portion formed as the one portion of the male member and including the male-side fastening portion at one end portion thereof, the male-side leg portion protruding from the male-side main member toward the female member to form a space between the male-side main member and the male-side leg portion, the spring holding member being housed in the space and the spring member being interposed between another end portion of the male-side leg portion opposite to the male-side fastening portion and the spring holding member.

11. A cord lock according to claim 10 , wherein the female-side fastening portion is arranged to be inclined inside the insertion passage to reduce an inner diameter of the female-side main member portion from the first opening toward the second opening,
the male-side fastening portion is arranged at one end of the male-side leg portion to face the female-side fastening portion inside insertion passage, and the string is adapted to be fastened between the male-side fastening portion and the female-side fastening portion.

12. A cord lock according to claim 11 , wherein the female member is arranged to be urged toward the male member with the spring when the female member is pulled to be adapted to release the string fastened with the female member and the male member, and
the male member is arranged to be urged toward the female member with the spring when the male member is pulled to be adapted to release the string fastened with the female member and the male member.

Assignees

• Nifco Inc

Inventors

• Shimizu Yohei

Classifications

• A44B99/00 Primary

  Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• F16G11/106

  using a toothed surface · CPC title

• F16G11/101 Primary

  deforming the cable by moving a part of the fastener · CPC title

• A44B13/0035

  using prongs · CPC title