Cable end fitting and cable abutment and method of securement
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsOscar Omar Estrada, Fernando Chacon, Hector Sanchez, Donald M. Perkins, Carlos Tostado
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Abstract
A cable conduit end for securing a cable to a cable abutment of a latch is provided. The cable conduit end having: a housing; an alignment feature incorporated into a surface of the housing; a flexible retention feature integrally formed with the conduit end, wherein the flexible retention feature is spring biased away from the housing to a first position; and a radial retention feature extending outwardly away from the housing, wherein the flexible retention feature is located proximate to a first end of the housing and the radial retention feature is located proximate to a second end of the housing.
Claims17
In combination, a cable conduit end and a cable abutment of a latch housing, the cable conduit end securing a cable to the cable abutment,
- the cable conduit end comprising:
- a housing including a first cylindrical portion having a first end, a second end and a first diameter, and a second cylindrical portion having first end, a second end and a second diameter, wherein the second diameter is smaller than the first diameter;
- an alignment feature incorporated into a surface proximate to the first end of the first cylindrical portion;
- a flexible retention feature integrally formed of with the second cylindrical portion, wherein the flexible retention feature extends from the first end of the second cylindrical portion and is spring biased away from the housing to a first position;
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- a radial retention feature extending outwardly away from the first cylindrical portion, wherein the radial retention feature is located proximate to and extends from the second end of the second cylindrical portion, the second end of the second cylindrical portion being opposite to the first end of the second cylindrical portion and wherein the alignment feature is located between the radial retention feature and the flexible retention feature;
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- wherein the cable abutment has an opening configured to slidably received the cable conduit end therein and wherein the radial retention feature engages a feature of the cable abutment when the cable conduit end is secured to the opening of the cable abutment and the radial retention feature prevents the cable conduit end from being pulled radially outward from the cable abutment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.