Temporary tightening tool for fastening member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11040436-B2
Application number	US-201916292635-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2019
Priority date	Mar 6, 2018
Publication date	Jun 22, 2021
Grant date	Jun 22, 2021

Abstract

A temporary tightening tool includes a grip part and a socket part into which a bolt head part is inserted. The socket part is formed in a shape of a hexagonal tube surrounded by six side walls, a hook part, which is a leaf spring part, is formed in each of alternate three side walls among the six side walls, and a thick torque transmission part is formed in each of three remaining side walls without the hook part. When the bolt head part is inserted in the socket part, the hook part is elastically deformed, and holds the hold bolt head part with restoring force. Torque input into the grip part is transmitted to the bolt head part from the torque transmission wall.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A temporary tightening tool for a fastening member, which is used for temporarily tightening a fastening member that is a bolt or nut for fastening a tire wheel to a hub, comprising;
a grip part for an operator to input torque, and
a socket part formed at a tip of said grip part, into which a hexagonal columnar part formed at said fastening member is inserted, wherein:
said socket part comprises;
a leaf spring part which is pressed by a part of six side surfaces of said hexagonal columnar part to be elastically deformed outward in a radial direction of said hexagonal columnar part when said hexagonal columnar part is inserted in said socket part, and presses said part of said six side surfaces inward in the radial direction with restoring force to hold said hexagonal columnar part such that said hexagonal columnar part is clamped, and
a torque transmission part which transmits torque to a side surface that is not pressed by said leaf spring part among said six side surfaces of said hexagonal columnar part when said torque is input into said grip part in a state where said hexagonal columnar part has been inserted in said socket part, wherein:
said socket part is formed in a shape of a hexagonal tube surrounded by six side walls, two slits are formed a predetermined dimension away from each other in a width direction to reach a tip of said side wall along an axis direction in each of alternate three side walls among said six side walls,
said leaf spring part is a plate body formed between said two slits, and
said torque transmission part is prepared in each of three remaining side walls without said slits among said six side walls, in which a thick part with plate thickness thicker than said leaf spring part is formed.

2. The temporary tightening tool for a fastening member, according to claim 1 , wherein:
said leaf spring part is formed in a shape in which a tip side of said plate body between said slits is inclined inward in the radial direction, and is configured such that this inclined tip of said plate body presses the side surface of said hexagonal columnar part inward in the radial direction.

3. The temporary tightening tool for a fastening member, according to claim 1 , wherein:
said leaf spring part is formed in a shape in which said plate body between said slits is bent inward in the radial direction in a shape of a U character, and is configured such that this tip of said plate body bent in the shape of a U character presses the side surface of said hexagonal columnar part inward in the radial direction.

4. A temporary tightening tool for a fastening member, which is used for temporarily tightening a fastening member that is a bolt or nut for fastening a tire wheel to a hub, comprising;
a grip part for an operator to input torque, and
a socket part formed at a tip of said grip part, into which a hexagonal columnar part formed at said fastening member is inserted, wherein:
said socket part comprises;
a leaf spring part which is pressed by a part of six side surfaces of said hexagonal columnar part to be elastically deformed outward in a radial direction of said hexagonal columnar part when said hexagonal columnar part is inserted in said socket part, and presses said part of said six side surfaces inward in the radial direction with restoring force to hold said hexagonal columnar part such that said hexagonal columnar part is clamped, and
a torque transmission part which transmits torque to a side surface that is not pressed by said leaf spring part among said six side surfaces of said hexagonal columnar part when said torque is input into said grip part in a state where said hexagonal columnar part has been inserted in said socket part, wherein:
said socket part comprises a socket substrate that is a metallic plate in a shape of a ring with an insertion hole, into which said hexagonal columnar part is inserted,
said leaf spring part is formed in a shape which is bent from a plurality of predetermined positions in an inner periphery surrounding said insertion hole of said socket substrate to be extended in a direction, into which said hexagonal columnar part is inserted,
said torque transmission part is formed at a position in said inner periphery of said socket substrate where said leaf spring part is not formed, and
said grip part is formed in a shape which is bent from an outer periphery of said socket substrate to be extended in a direction, into which said hexagonal columnar part is inserted.

5. The temporary tightening tool for a fastening member, according to claim 4 , wherein:
said torque transmission part comprises two linear edges formed in a linear shape and facing in parallel with each other in said inner periphery of said socket substrate and configured so as to transmit torque to two mutually parallel side surfaces among said six side surfaces of said hexagonal columnar part when said torque is input into said grip part in a state where said hexagonal columnar part is inserted in said insertion hole, and
said leaf spring part is configured to be pressed by four side surfaces, excluding said two mutually parallel side surfaces, among said six side surfaces of said hexagonal columnar part to be elastically deformed outward in the radial direction of said hexagonal columnar part, and presses said four side surfaces inward in the radial direction with restoring force to hold said hexagonal columnar part such that said hexagonal columnar part is clamped, when said hexagonal columnar part is inserted in said insertion hole.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakagawa Kenji

Classifications

• B25B23/106

  the driving bit being a blade · CPC title

• B25B23/108 Primary

  the driving bit being a Philips type bit, an Allen type bit or a socket · CPC title

• B25B15/008

  Allen-type keys · CPC title

• B25B15/02

  operated by rotating the handle · CPC title

• B25B27/143

  for installing wire thread inserts or tubular threaded inserts · CPC title