Clip and pillar garnish fixing structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuhito YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
A clip and a tether clip of a pillar garnish fixing structure includes a shaft and a pair of engagement hooks opposing each other. Each engagement hook is connected to the shaft at a hook connecting portion. A deformation promoting portion is formed at each of a pair of shaft wall portions opposing each other in a diametrical direction perpendicular to a direction in which the pair of engagement hooks are opposed. Even when a thickness of the hook connecting portion is increased thereby increasing a strength of the engagement hook, the hook connecting portion is deformed so as to approach a center axis line so that the engagement hook can pass through a clip fixing aperture. As a result, both the strength of the engagement hook and a serviceability can be satisfied.
Claims9
A clip made from a resin having an elasticity and comprising:
- a seat;
- a hollow shaft extending away from the seat and having an interior space opening to an outside at an opposite seat-side end of the shaft;
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- a pair of engagement hooks opposing each other, each of the pair of engagement hooks being connected to the shaft at a hook connecting portion located at an opposite seat-side end of the engagement hook, being separated from the shaft and the seat by a slit except for the hook connecting portion, and extending from the hook connecting portion toward the seat, wherein
- a distance between outside surfaces of the pair of engagement hooks at the hook connecting portions, located at the same axial position as an opposite seat-side end of the slit, in a free state of the clip is larger than a diameter of a clip fixing aperture of the body,
- a deformation promoting portion, for promoting the hook connecting portion and a hook root portion connected to the hook connecting portion to be deformed in a direction toward a center axis line of the clip when the shaft is inserted into a clip fixing aperture formed at a body, is formed at each of a pair of shaft wall portions opposing each other in a diametrical direction perpendicular to a direction in which the pair of engagement hooks are opposed, the deformation promoting portion being constructed of at least one of an elongated aperture and a wall thickness decreased portion, and
- the deformation promoting portion extends in an axial direction of the shaft and in opposite directions away from a position of the shaft corresponding to the hook connecting portion in the axial direction of the shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.