Clinch bolt

Abstract

To present a clinch bolt capable of obtaining a stable clinching force without causing misalignment between the mounting hole provide in a metal plate and an annular groove of the clinch bolt. A clinch bolt 21 having crimping protuberances 25 formed on a seat surface 24 of a head part 23, having an annular ridge part 26 of a larger diameter than the outside diameter of a screw shaft part 22 formed in an under-neck portion immediately beneath the seat surface 24, and having an annular groove 27 formed between the annular ridge part 26 and the seat surface 24, for inserting the screw shaft part 22 into a mounting hole 11 slightly larger than the outside diameter of the annular ridge part 26 pierced into a metal plate 10, pressing the head part 23 to the metal plate 10, press-fitting the crimping protuberances 25 into the peripheral edge 12 of the mounting hole 11, and crimping and deforming the peripheral edge 12 to bite into the annular groove 27, so as to be fixed tightly to the metal plate 10, in which at least three misalignment preventive protuberances 28 projecting from the wall 27a of the annular groove 27 in the radial direction are disposed at appropriate intervals in the circumferential direction, and the leading ends of the misalignment preventive protuberances 28 are disposed on a virtual circumference of nearly same diameter as the diameter of the annular ridge part 26.

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