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US 2014/0231597 A1Published application
Cable mounting assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJoseph L. Buchwitz, James Adam Drozdowski, Andrew Arthur Brown, Jacob Peter Stencel, Mason Otto Suksumake, Richard Green
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Abstract
A cable mounting assembly that may include a ball fitting having a hole that receives a cable assembly. The ball fitting may be disposed in an abutment and may be received in a bracket that may be disposed on the abutment.
Claims20
A cable mounting assembly comprising:
- an abutment having an abutment hole;
- a ball fitting disposed in the abutment hole and having a hole through which a cable assembly extends;
- and
- a bracket disposed on the abutment and having a socket that receives the ball fitting;
- wherein rotation of the ball fitting is inhibited when the bracket exerts a compressive force on the ball fitting.
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A cable mounting assembly comprising:
- an abutment having an abutment hole;
- a bracket disposed on the abutment that has a bracket hole;
- a ball fitting disposed in the abutment hole and the bracket hole, wherein the ball fitting has a hole;
- and
- a cable received in a conduit;
- wherein the conduit extends partially through the hole and the cable extends through the abutment hole, hole, and bracket hole.
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A cable mounting assembly comprising:
- a cable assembly that extends through a ball fitting that has a ball portion having a curved outer surface;
- an abutment having a first surface and an abutment socket that extends away from the first surface;
- and
- a bracket that disposed on the abutment and that has a bracket socket that extends away from first surface;
- wherein the bracket and abutment engage the curved outer surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.