Fastening means, assembly and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016123371-A1
Application number	US-201314893151-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 28, 2013
Priority date	May 28, 2013
Publication date	May 5, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The invention relates to a fastening means provided for engaging with factional or positively locking means in a friction or positively locking fashion comprising a protuberance realized as an extrusion, wherein the protuberance projects from a plate expanding along a main plane and having a prime surface facing away from the protuberance and comprises an inner side, wherein the inner side forms a circle having an inside diameter Di in a plane being parallel to the main plane, wherein a first plane being parallel to the main plane includes a circle with the first inside diameter Di′ and a second plane being parallel to the main plane includes a circle with the second inside diameter Di″, and wherein the first plane is closer to the prime surface than the second plane, and wherein the first inside diameter Di′ is greater than the second inside diameter Di″.

First claim

1 . A fastening means provided for engaging with frictional or positively locking means in a friction or positively locking fashion comprising:
a protuberance realized as an extrusion, wherein the protuberance: projects from a plate expanding along a main plane and having a prime surface facing away from the protuberance and comprises an inner side, wherein the inner side forms a circle having an inside diameter Di in a plane being parallel to the main plane,
wherein a first plane being parallel to the main plane includes a circle with a first inside diameter Di′ and a second plane being parallel to the main plane includes a circle with a second inside diameter Di″, wherein the first plane is closer to the prime surface than the second plane and wherein the first inside diameter Di′ is greater than the second inside diameter D 1 ″.

2 . The fastening means as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the protuberance has an opening.

3 . The fastening means as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plate has a thickness T and half of the difference between the inside diameter Di and an outer diameter Do is smaller than the thickness T of the plate.

4 . The fastening means as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a maximal difference ΔDi between the first inside diameter Di′ and the second inside diameter Di″ corresponds to ΔDi=DIS*tan α, wherein a tilt angle α is 1° substantially and DIS is the distance between the first plane and the second plane.

5 . The fastening means as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fastening means has a throat section that at least partially forms a circle segment with a circle radius R in a plane being perpendicular to the main plane, wherein the throat section links the prime surface of the plate with the inner side of the protuberance and wherein the throat section comprises a circle segment with a circle radius R corresponding to R=0.33*T.

8 . The fastening means as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fastening means has a protuberance height H corresponding to a distance between the plane that includes the prime surface and the plane being parallel to the main plane that includes the part of the protuberance located furthermost relative to the plans that includes the prime surface, wherein the protuberance height H is smaller than any inside diameter Di of the protuberance.

7 . The fastening means as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fastening means has a protuberance height H and protuberance height H is designed such that the frictional and/or positively locking mean exits the protuberance provided that the frictional or positively locking mean is engaged with the protuberance in a frictional or positively locking fashion.

8 . The fastening means as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a change of the diameter ΔDi between the first inside diameter Di′ and the second inside diameter Di″ and/or a throat diameter and/or a protuberance height H vary due to engineering and/or manufacturing purposes.

9 . An assembly comprising several fastening means according to claim 1 , wherein several fastening means are arranged on one common plate.

10 . A method for generating a fastening means according to claim 1 , wherein the method comprises an extrusion process.

Assignees

• Johnson Controls Tech Co

Inventors

• Winters Frederic T
• White Steve E
• Cigut Dean E
• Erard Andrew J
• Grubaugh Kenneth R

Classifications

• B21K23/00 Primary

  Making other articles · CPC title

• B21C23/00

  Extruding metal; Impact extrusion · CPC title

• F16B37/00 Primary

  Nuts or like thread-engaging members {(specially shaped for rotations by a tool F16B23/00)} · CPC title

• F16B37/02

  made of thin sheet material (fastening to surfaces F16B37/04 {; used as lock-nuts F16B39/14}) · CPC title

• F16B37/005

  into which threads are cut during screwing · CPC title