Key accessory
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsAkihiro Ike, Yasuhiro Yawata
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Abstract
A key accessory has a low-cost and simple structure and allows a user to easily confirm on the spot that the user has performed locking even in a place where the user has gone out. A key accessory to be attached to surfaces of a holding part of a key includes: a deforming member configured to be deformed by a holding force applied when the user carries out a locking operation with the key; and a restoring member configured to cause the deforming member having a shape after having been deformed by the holding force to restore to its original shape before the deformation.
Claims7
A key accessory to be attached to surfaces of a holding part of a key, the key accessory comprising:
- a deforming member configured to be deformed into a shape by a holding force applied when a user carries out a locking operation with the key and to maintain the shape after having been deformed by the holding force to indicate that a locking operation has been performed;
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- a restoring member configured to cause the deforming member having the shape after the deformation to restore to its original shape before the deformation to indicate that the accessory is reset to be restored for a subsequent locking operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.