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US 10,882,167 B2Granted
Crimping devices including a pistol-grip air hammer and a crimp socket with a sloped key
AssigneeToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
InventorsRonald Keith Moore, Sean W. Hatchett
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Abstract
A crimping device includes a hammer and a crimp socket that includes an aperture, a socket face, and a sloped key that projects radially into the crimp socket and extends at least a portion of the depth of the aperture. A height of the radial projection of the sloped key increases along a depth of the aperture.
Claims10
A crimping device comprising:
- a hammer;
- and
- a crimp socket that includes an aperture, a socket face defined by a sidewall and a sloped key that projects radially inward from the sidewall beyond the socket face and extends at least a portion of a depth of the aperture, wherein the height of the sloped key increases along the depth of the aperture.
A method of crimping an axle nut to an axle, the method comprising:
- positioning a crimp socket including an aperture, a socket face, and a sloped key that projects radially into the crimp socket and that extends at least a portion of a depth of the aperture over the axle, and
- moving the crimp socket in an axial direction to crimp down on a crimped portion of the axle nut to crimp the crimped portion into a slot of the axle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.