Grommet
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsMasayoshi Ogawa, Satoshi Yokoyama, Shinichi Ikeda
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Abstract
A grommet which allows an annular lip portion to be pushed hardly against a panel member is provided. When the annular lip portion abuts on a planar portion on a radially inner side than an outer peripheral edge of a flange portion, a protruding portion of the annular lip portion is sandwiched between the planar portion and the flange portion. An inner member of a grommet is made of a material having a higher degree of hardness than the material of a body of the grommet, thereby allowing the annular lip portion to be pushed hardly against the panel member.
Claims4
A grommet formed into a tubular shape so as to cover an electric wire and configured to be attached to an attachment hole of a panel member, the grommet comprising:
- a grommet body including a first flange portion and an annular lip portion, the first flange portion being formed so as to face the panel member, the annular lip portion extending from an inner peripheral part of the first flange portion toward the panel member so as to elastically contact with a planar portion around the attachment hole;
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- an inner member attachable to the grommet body and made of a material having a higher degree of hardness than a material used to form the grommet body,
- wherein the inner member includes:
- an inner flange portion to be housed in the first flange portion;
- an inserting portion to be inserted in the attachment hole;
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- an engaging portion to be engaged with a surface of the panel member on a side opposite to the grommet body, and
- wherein the annular lip portion is configured to abut on the planar portion on a radially inner side than an outer peripheral edge of the inner flange portion, and
- wherein a height, in a radial direction along the planar portion, of the inner flange portion is greater than a height, in the radial direction, of the annular lip portion when the annular lip portion is pressed back to the inner peripheral part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.