US 12,752,569 B2Granted

Writing instrument

AssigneeMitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited

InventorsYoshiharu Namiki, Makoto Tamura

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Abstract

A click-action writing instrument 1 comprises a rear shaft 20, an inner cylinder 30 having on a side surface thereof an elastic deformation portion 37 that can elastically deform radially outward and inward, and a rotor 40. The elastic deformation portion has a first protrusion 38 on the outer surface thereof. The elastic deformation portion has a second protrusion 39 on the inner surface thereof. The first protrusion 38 is configured to cause the elastic deformation portion to deform radially inward when the inner cylinder is inserted into the rear shaft. The second protrusion 39, in a state prior to insertion of the inner cylinder into the rear shaft, causes the elastic deformation portion to deform radially outward when the rotor is inserted into the inner cylinder. The deformed elastic deformation portion is configured to recover after the rotor is inserted.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A writing instrument comprising a cylindrical first tubular member, a cylindrical second tubular member inserted inside the first tubular member from one end part of the first tubular member, the second tubular member provided at its side surface with an elastically deformable part able to elastically deform to an outside and to an inside in a radial direction, and a cylindrical or columnar inside member inserted inside the second tubular member from one end part of the second tubular member,

an outside surface of the elastically deformable part or an inside surface of the first tubular member having a first fitting part,
an inside surface of the elastically deformable part having a second fitting part,
the first fitting part configured to make the elastically deformable part deform to the inside in the radial direction if the second tubular member is inserted into the first tubular member,
the second fitting part configured to make the elastically deformable part deform to the outside in the radial direction if the inside member is inserted inside the second tubular member in a state before the second tubular member is inserted inside the first tubular member, the deformed elastically deformable part returning after insertion of the inside member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.