Key accessory
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsAkihiro IKE, Yasuhiro YAWATA
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Abstract
A key accessory has a low-cost and simple structure and allows a user to easily confirm on the spot that the user has performed locking even in a place where the user has gone out. A key accessory to be attached to surfaces of a holding part of a key includes: a deforming member configured to be deformed by a holding force applied when the user carries out a locking operation with the key; and a restoring member configured to cause the deforming member having a shape after having been deformed by the holding force to restore to its original shape before the deformation.
Claims7
A key accessory to be attached to surfaces of a holding part of a key, the key accessory comprising:
- a deforming member configured to be deformed by a holding force applied when a user carries out a locking operation with the key;
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- a restoring member configured to cause the deforming member having a shape after having been deformed by the holding force to restore to its original shape before the deformation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.