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US 2019/0337434 A1Published application
Vehicle door armrest substrate having integral high retention fastener
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsLinh Doan, Bhavani Thota, Amit Chakravarty, Nitesh Jadhav, Ryan Mowery, Daniel Morin
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Abstract
A vehicle door includes an inner door liner having a substrate receptacle. An armrest substrate has a plurality of posts extending through the inner door liner at the substrate receptacle. The substrate receptacle has a plurality of one-way apertures that receive the plurality of posts. Integral retaining features positioned at an end of each post maintains engagement of each post within each respective one-way aperture.
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A vehicle door comprising:
- an inner door liner having a substrate receptacle;
- and
- an armrest substrate having a plurality of posts extending through the inner door liner at the substrate receptacle;
- wherein
- the substrate receptacle has a plurality of one-way apertures that receive the plurality of posts, respectively;
- and
- integral retaining features positioned at an end of each post maintains engagement of each post within each respective one-way aperture.
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A vehicle armrest comprising:
- an armrest substrate having a retention post with a retaining feature positioned at an end thereof;
- an inner door liner having a one-way aperture that receives the retention post;
- an angled flange of the one-way aperture that allows passage of the retaining feature in an insertion direction to an installed position and prevents movement of the retaining feature away from the installed position.
A method of installing a vehicle armrest, the method comprising steps of:
- positioning an armrest substrate having a retaining post proximate a substrate receptacle of an inner door liner;
- moving the retaining post toward a respective one-way aperture of the substrate receptacle;
- pushing a retaining feature through the one-way aperture in an insertion direction, wherein movement of the retaining feature through the one-way aperture biases radial flanges of the respective one-way aperture in a generally outward direction;
- and
- moving the retaining feature through the respective one-way aperture to an installed position, wherein the radial flanges in the installed position are biased in a generally inward direction and toward the retaining post.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.