Coupling assemblies having frangible portions
AssigneeToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
InventorsJoshua S. Lynch, Corey J. Downing
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Abstract
A coupling assembly for coupling a first component to a second component, the coupling assembly includes a pin and a housing. The pin includes a shaft and a pin frangible portion formed in the shaft. The housing includes a hollow body and a housing frangible portion formed in the hollow body. The housing is configured to receive the pin such that the shaft of the pin is received within the hollow body. When the pin is received in the hollow body the pin frangible portion aligns with the housing frangible portion.
Claims11
A coupling assembly configured to couple a first component to a second component, the coupling assembly comprising:
- a pin comprising a shaft and a pin frangible portion formed in the shaft, the pin frangible portion includes a bore;
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- a housing comprising a hollow body and a housing frangible portion formed in the hollow body, the housing frangible portion includes an aperture, the housing configured to receive the pin such that the shaft of the pin is received within the hollow body, when the pin is received in the hollow body an axis of the bore of the pin frangible portion aligns with an axis of the aperture of the housing frangible portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.