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US 2002/0172009 A1Published application
Fastening mechanism
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsYoshihiro Ikushima, Yutaka Ohkubo, Hidetoshi Yoshikawa
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Abstract
Fastening members such as tapping screws and rivers having a shaft are used to fasten objects such as circuit elements, a circuit board and a casing to a target object such as a heat sink of a circuit unit. The target object may have a uniform cross-sectional shape along a specified direction, having a groove formed over the entire length along this direction. The fastening members are passed through the objects to be fastened and inserted into this groove to be affixed to the target object so as to fasten the objects to be fastened onto the target object.
Claims9
A fastening mechanism comprising:
- a first object;
- a second object having at least one groove formed thereon;
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- a fastening member having a shaft, said shaft passing through said first object and being inserted into said groove and affixed to said second object and thereby fastening said first object onto said second object.
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