US 2007/0152123 A1Published application

Installation method for fixing an apparatus

AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

InventorSatoru KIMURA

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Abstract

An apparatus fixture device for fixing an apparatus to a ceiling portion of a vehicle includes at least one pair of rails for carrying a load when the apparatus is installed. Each rail has a narrow opening groove and a pair of rack-shaped portions on both sides thereof. A block has loose-fitting holes and an upper width insertable into the opening groove. Bolts are loosely fitted into the holes of the block. A cylinder is loosely fitted between the bolt and the hole. Nut plates have a nut hole to be screwed with the bolt. When the bolt is turned and pushed upwardly, end portions of the nut plates extend across the opening groove and are placed on the pair of rack-shaped portions and pulled downward by a tightening force of the bolt screwed into the nut hole. A fixing member engages the apparatus to the block.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An apparatus installation method for fixing an apparatus, such as a display apparatus, to the ceiling portion or the like of a vehicle, comprising:

a step of loosely fitting a bolt, over which a cylinder having a predetermined length is loosely fitted, into a hole in a block of a fixture device,
a step of inserting a narrow nut plate having a nut hole screwed to the upper portion of the bolt, having a width smaller than the width of an opening groove on the lower face of a rail disposed in the space of the ceiling and having a length larger than that into a space in the rail from the opening groove on the lower face of the rail so that the narrow direction thereof is aligned with the narrow direction of the opening groove,
a step of connecting both end portions of the nut plate inserted into the space in the rail to the rail by pushing and turning the bolt so that the nut plate is turned substantially 90° around the axis of the nut hole and the end portions are placed on the rack-shaped portions on both sides of the opening groove in the rail,
a step of pressing and fixing the nut plate to the rack-shaped portions of the rail by tightening the bolt while maintaining said connection so that the nut plate is pulled by the bolt in a state wherein a clearance as large as the thickness of said rack-shaped portions is maintained between the nut plate and the upper face of said block, and
a step of fixing the apparatus to said fixture device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/678,654Filed 26 Feb 2007
Priority: JP 2000-25135322 Aug 2000
Published: 5 Jul 2007
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Classification22 codes

B64D 11/0015
Passenger or crew accommodation; Flight-deck installations not otherwise provided for: arrangements for entertainment or communications, e.g.…
B60R 11/02
Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for: for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement…
B60R 11/0235
For displays, e.g. cathodic tubes: of flat type, e.g. LCD
E05B 47/06
Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means: controlling mechanically-operated bolts by…

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