Headlamp adjusting attachment nut
AssigneeTrans Technology Engineered Components, LLC
InventorTodd E. Cassidy
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Abstract
The present invention is drawn to a coupling nut for connecting an automotive headlamp adjustment assembly to a tubular protrusion or boss of a headlight reflector forming part of the headlamp assembly wherein the coupling nut has a tubular opening at one end thereof which fits over the tubular protrusion of the headlamp reflector and a cup shaped opening at the opposite end and a circumferential cut out area with a flexible inclined plane therein to allow an easy snap-in of the nut to a pair of protrusions extending from the outside surface of the tubular protrusion.
Claims12
A pivotable automotive reflector assembly comprising:
- a reflector assembly;
- a boss member formed at a pivotable location on said reflector assembly integrally therewith;
- a right angle adjustment drive assembly having a substantially vertical input member geared to drive a substantially horizontal driven member;
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- a coupling member connectable to said boss member at one end and to said horizontally driven member at the opposite end thereof by way of an externally located cup assembly.
A coupling nut connecting to a tubular protrusion of a headlight reflector assembly having a protruding member extending out from the tubular protrusion comprising:
- a tubular member having a tubular opening at one end thereof which fits over the tubular protrusion;
- said tubular member having an externally located cup shaped opening at the end opposite the tubular opening;
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- said tubular member having a circumferential cut out area with a flexible member formed therein to allow the protruding member to move in said cut out area along said flexible member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.