Slider
AssigneeYKK Corporation
InventorTakanori Ozawa
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Abstract
A slider includes a slider body, a lock pin, and a tab pull. The slider body has a pair of wall portions, a pin hole formed between the pair of wall portions, and a pedestal portion disposed on at least one side of the pin hole and on one of the pair of wall portions. The lock pin has a holding portion, a placement portion placed on the pedestal portion, and a pin portion extending downward and passing through the pin hole. One of the pedestal portion and the placement portion is provided with a limiting portion for limiting the placement portion in a width direction, and in an accommodating space, a void portion for the placement portion to move is disposed above the pedestal portion. The placement portion is spaced apart from an inner wall of one of the pair of wall portions to form the void portion.
Claims10
A slider, suitable for being installed on a fastener chain and comprising:
- a slider body, comprising an upper blade and a lower blade disposed opposite to each other and a guide column connecting the upper blade and the lower blade, and having an element channel located between the upper blade and the lower blade;
- a lock pin, disposed on the slider body;
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- a tab pull, disposed on the slider body and driving the lock pin to move, wherein
- the slider body has a pair of wall portions disposed on the upper blade and forming an accommodating space for the lock pin, a pin hole formed between the pair of wall portions and communicated with the element channel, and a pedestal portion disposed on at least one side of the pin hole between the pair of wall portions and on one of the pair of wall portions to carry the lock pin,
- the lock pin has a holding portion held on a front side of the slider body, a placement portion on an opposite side of the holding portion and placed on the pedestal portion, and a pin portion extending downward from the placement portion and passing through the pin hole,
- one of the pedestal portion and the placement portion is provided with a limiting portion for limiting the placement portion in a width direction, and
- in the accommodating space, a void portion for the placement portion to move obliquely upward in the width direction through a guidance of the limiting portion when the pin portion is pushed by a separable pin of the fastener chain in the width direction is disposed above the pedestal portion,
- the placement portion is spaced apart from an inner wall of one of the pair of wall portions to form the void portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.