US 2006/0221471 A1Published application

Positioning structure

AssigneeFujinon Corporation

InventorsKazuyuki Tsuchiya, Koji Ogaki, Masayuki Inamoto

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Abstract

A positioning structure having a positioning projection on attaching surface is provided. The attaching surface is inclined within an acute angle with respect to a direction orthogonal to an opening and closing direction of a mold for forming the surface. The positioning projection formed on the attaching surface is molded simultaneously by the metallic molding into a truncated right circular conical shape with a tapered trapezoid section that has a tapered surface inclined within an acute angle with respect to a direction perpendicular to the attaching surface on the outer circumference, and has a tapered front end extending in the perpendicular direction. When the angle of inclination of the attaching surface with respect to the direction orthogonal to the opening and closing direction of the mold is defined as “α”, and the angle of inclination of the tapered surface with respect to the direction perpendicular to the attaching surface is defined as “β”, β−α>0 is satisfied.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A positioning structure comprising two parts to be attached to each other, wherein one of the two parts has an attaching surface having a positioning projection, the other of the two parts has an attaching surface having a positioning hole, and the two parts are positioned by fitting the positioning projection and the positioning hole when the two parts are attached to each other,

wherein
one of the two parts comprises a resin material and is formed by means of metallic molding, and the attaching surface of the one of the two parts is inclined within an acute angle with respect to a direction orthogonal to an opening and closing direction of a mold for forming the attaching surface;
the positioning projection or hole on the attaching surface is formed simultaneously by the metallic molding, and the positioning projection or hole has an outer or inner surface coming into contact with the positioning hole or projection of the other of the two parts, the outer or inner surface having a side surface with a rotationally symmetric trapezoid section having tapered side surfaces inclined within an acute angle with respect to a perpendicular to the attaching surface;
and
the positioning structure satisfies formula:
β−α>0
wherein α represents an angle of inclination of the attaching surface with respect to the direction orthogonal to the opening and closing direction of the mold is defined, and β represents an angle of inclination of the tapered surface with respect to the direction orthogonal to the opening and closing direction of the mold.

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A positioning structure comprising:

two parts to be attached to each other, wherein each of the two parts has a positioning hole;
and a positioning projection part, and the two parts are positioned by fitting the positioning hole of each of the two parts with the positioning projection part when the two parts are attached to each other,
wherein
one of the two parts comprises a resin material and is formed by means of metallic molding, and the attaching surface of the one of the two parts is inclined within an acute angle with respect to a direction orthogonal to an opening and closing direction of a mold for forming the attaching surface;
the positioning projection part comprises:
a disk-shaped flange;
a projection projected from one surface of the flange in an axial direction passing through a center of the flange;
and a spherical projection projected from the other surface of the flange in the axial direction, so that the positioning projection as a whole becomes rotationally symmetrical with respect to the axial direction;
the projection fits the positioning hole of one of the two parts, and the spherical projection fits the positioning hole of the other of the two parts;
the spherical projection has a spherical surface with a height equal to or less than a radius thereof;
the positioning hole on the attaching surface of one of the two parts has one of an inclined plane and a concave spherical surface, the inclined plane coming into contact with the spherical projection at least at three or more points, the concave spherical surface having the same radius as that of the spherical projection and the same depth as the height of the spherical projection;
and
the surface of flange having the spherical projection is formed so as to come into entire contact with a plane of the attaching surface when the spherical projection fits the positioning hole.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.