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US 12,553,266 B2Granted
High strength door striker and method for making
AssigneeAmanda Manufacturing, LLC
InventorAlmantas K. Paskonis
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a door striker assembly having an improved interface between a striker pin and a base plate. The striker pin comprising a raised section wherein a cross-section of the raised section comprises a bottom taper and a top taper where the bottom taper is inserted into a base plate aperture from a top side of the base plate for seating the striker pin into the base plate aperture. The present disclosure also provides a method for forming the aforementioned door striker assembly.
Claims20
A door striker, comprising:
- a striker pin comprising a leg, the leg comprising a leg taper;
- and
- a base plate comprising an aperture through which the leg extends;
- wherein the aperture comprises an aperture taper corresponding to the leg taper as a result of the leg taper having been pressed into the aperture to thereby deform the base plate.
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A method of forming a door striker, the method comprising:
- processing a striker pin to thereby form a raised section including a bottom side taper;
- pressing the bottom side taper into an aperture in a base plate, thereby deforming the base plate such that the aperture conforms to the bottom side taper;
- and
- forming a button on an end of the striker pin to thereby capture a portion of the base plate between the button and the bottom side taper.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.