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US 2002/0163155 A1Published application
Strut mount
AssigneeToyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichihiro Kawada, Hideo Tadano
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Abstract
The present invention provides a strut mount bolted to a curved outer cylinder attachment plate (6) without enlarging a bolt hole, by inserting a cylindrical portion (13) of a caulking nut (5) into a nut attachment hole (11) of an attachment piece (10) of an outer cylinder (2) and pressurizing and diminishing in diameter the circumference of the nut attachment hole (11) to caulk and stick the nut attachment hole (11) and the caulking nut (5).
Claims5
A strut mount an attachment piece of an outer cylinder of which is bolted to the underside of an outer cylinder attachment plate of a vehicle body:
- wherein, both the attachment piece of the outer cylinder and the outer cylinder attachment plate of the vehicle body are connected by tightening a bolt fastened to a nut, which is caulked and secured on the underside of the attachment piece of the outer cylinder, and which is screwed from above the outer cylinder attachment plate of the vehicle body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.