Buckle
AssigneeNifco Inc.
InventorGaku Kawaguchi
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Abstract
A buckle includes a male member having a pair of flexible arms mutually facing each other and disposed extending from a base part, and a female member to connect to the male member by coupling with the pair of arms. The male member has a flexible bridge connecting the pair of arms. The bridge is connected to an opposing face of each of the pair of arms facing the other arm. At the connecting portion where each of the pair of arms and the bridge are connected, the bridge is placed projecting toward the other arm from the opposing face on the arm following a tangential direction to a circle being centered on the base end of the arm and having a distance from the base end to the connecting portion as a radius.
Claims5
A buckle, comprising:
- a male member including a pair of flexible arms mutually facing each other and disposed to extend from a base part;
- and
- a female member connected to said male member by engaging with said pair of arms;
- wherein said male member has a flexible bridge connecting said pair of arms;
- said bridge is connected to opposing faces of the pair of arms facing each other;
- and
- a connecting portion connecting each of said pair of arms and said bridge is formed such that said bridge is within at least a portion of a mobile range of the arm, and projects towards said other arm from said opposing face of the arm along a tangential direction of a circle being centered on a base end of the arm and having a distance from the base end to said connecting portion as a radius.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.