Holding component for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9653901-B2
Application number	US-201514885095-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2015
Priority date	Oct 22, 2014
Publication date	May 16, 2017
Grant date	May 16, 2017

Abstract

In a holding component 1 , for a vehicle, having: a fixing portion 10 which houses and fixedly engages with a mounting tool 101 having been moved upward through a lower opening 11 H; and a holding portion 20 for holding a predetermined member 5 by an upper holding portion 21 and a lower holding portion 22 being engaged with each other, in a state where an engagement portion 23 provided in the upper holding portion 21 is housed in and engaged with an engagement housing portion 24 provided in the lower holding portion 22 , a pressing portion 200 provided in the engagement portion 23 presses downward the mounting tool 101 which is engaged with and fixed to the fixing portion 10.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A holding component for a vehicle, the holding component comprising: a fixing portion to which a mounting tool to be mounted to a vehicle body is fixed; and a holding portion for detachably holding a predetermined member, wherein
the fixing portion includes
a mounting tool housing portion configured to house the mounting tool that has been moved upward through a lower opening, and
an elastic portion configured: to have, on an upper-side portion, an engaging claw portion that projects inward in the mounting tool housing portion such that the engaging claw portion is pressed from thereunder by the mounting tool entering so as to be moved upward through the lower opening; to allow the mounting tool to be moved further upward by the elastic portion being elastically deformed by a lower-side portion serving as an originating point due to the engaging claw portion being pressed; and to allow the engaging claw portion to enter an engagement hole portion of the mounting tool by the elastic portion being elastically restored when the mounting tool is moved further upward and the engagement hole portion of the mounting tool reaches a position of the engaging claw portion, to provide a first engaging state in which the engaging claw portion having entered contacts with an inner peripheral upper surface of the engagement hole portion to prevent the mounting tool from being removed downward, and
the holding portion includes:
an upper holding portion disposed above the predetermined member;
a lower holding portion disposed below the predetermined member;
an engagement portion provided in the upper holding portion;
an engagement receiving portion, provided in the lower holding portion, configured to provide a second engaging state in which the engagement receiving portion engages with the engagement portion to combine the upper holding portion and the lower holding portion with each other; and
a pressing portion configured to press the mounting tool in the first engaging state downward under the second engaging state, and hold the engaging claw portion in such a state that the engaging claw portion contacts with the inner peripheral upper surface of the engagement hole portion.

2. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the engagement receiving portion is provided in an engagement housing portion, of the lower holding portion, adjacent to the mounting tool housing portion, and the engagement receiving portion engages with the engagement portion that is moved downward through an upper opening of the engagement housing portion, and housed, to provide the second engaging state, and
the pressing portion is provided in the engagement portion, and presses downward the mounting tool in the first engaging state according to the second engaging state being obtained.

3. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein
an internal space of the mounting tool housing portion and an internal space of the engagement housing portion communicate with each other, and
the elastic portion forming a wall portion of the mounting tool housing portion is positioned on a first side in a direction orthogonal to an entering direction in which the mounting tool enters, and a wall portion of the engagement housing portion that engages with the engagement portion is positioned on a second side.

4. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein
the pressing portion is an elastic piece that extends diagonally upward from a lower end of the engagement portion in a direction opposite to a direction in which the engaging claw portion of the elastic portion projects, and
when the pressing portion presses the mounting tool in the first engaging state downward under the second engaging state, the pressing portion is elastically deformed such that an end side portion thereof is pressed in the direction in which the engaging claw portion projects.

5. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein
an internal space of the mounting tool housing portion and an internal space of the engagement housing portion communicate with each other,
the elastic portion forming a wall portion of the mounting tool housing portion is positioned on a first side in a direction orthogonal to an entering direction in which the mounting tool enters, and a wall portion of the engagement housing portion in which the engagement receiving portion is formed is positioned on a second side so as to oppose the elastic portion, and
the pressing portion is formed so as to project from the engagement portion such that the pressing portion extends toward the mounting tool housing portion from the engagement portion that has entered the engagement housing portion.

6. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 5 , wherein
the pressing portion is an elastic piece that extends diagonally upward from a lower end of the engagement portion in a direction opposite to a direction in which the engaging claw portion of the elastic portion projects, and
when the pressing portion presses the mounting tool in the first engaging state downward under the second engaging state, the pressing portion is elastically deformed such that an end side portion thereof is pressed in the direction in which the engaging claw portion projects.

7. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the pressing portion is provided in the upper holding portion at a position other than positions in the engagement portion, and
the pressing portion is moved downward through an upper opening of the mounting tool housing portion to enter the mounting tool housing portion when the second engaging state is to be obtained, and the pressing portion presses the mounting tool in the first engaging state downward when the second engaging state is obtained.

8. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 7 , wherein
the pressing portion includes a projection base end portion and a projection end portion,
the projection base end portion projects, from an upper surface portion forming an upper surface of the upper holding portion, in one extending direction in which the upper surface extends, and the projection base end portion has cut portions obtained by the upper surface portion being cut in the upper surface in a direction opposite to a projecting direction in which the projection base end portion projects, on both end sides in a width direction orthogonal to the projecting direction,
the projection end portion extends downward from an end of the projection base end portion, and
the pressing portion presses downward the mounting tool in the first engaging state with the projection end portion when the second engaging state is obtained.

9. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 8 , wherein
the number of the engagement portions formed is at least two, and
the pressing portion is formed between two adjacent engagement portions among the at least two engagement portions.

10. The holding component for a vehicle according to claim 7 , wherein
the number of the engagement portions formed is at least two, and
the pressing portion is formed between two adjacent engagement portions among the at least two engagement portions.

11. The holding component for a vehicle according to any one of claims 1 , wherein the upper holding portion and the lower holding portion are coupled to each other via a hinge portion.

12. The holding component for a vehicle according to any one of claims 1 , wherein the upper holding portion and the lower holding portion are formed separately from each other.

Assignees

• Daiwa Kasei Ind Co Ltd
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd
• Daiwa Kasei Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Miyamoto Ryuji
• Hirakawa Katsuya
• Asai Osamu
• Akie Yusuke

Classifications

• F16L3/1025

  the members being joined by quick-acting means · CPC title

• F16L3/1075 Primary

  with two members, the two members being joined with a hinge on one side and fastened together on the other side · CPC title

• H02G3/32 Primary

  using mounting clamps · CPC title

• F16B21/16

  with grooves or notches in the pin or shaft · CPC title

• B60R16/0215 Primary

  Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor · CPC title