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US 6,712,370 B2Granted
Strut mount
AssigneeToyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichihiro Kawada, Hideo Tadano
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Abstract
The present invention provides a strut mount bolted to a curved outer cylinder attachment plate (6) without enlarging abolt hole, by inserting a cylindrical portion (13) of a caulking nut (5) into a nut attachment hole (11) of an attachment piece (10) of an outer cylinder (2) and pressurizing and diminishing in diameter the circumference of the nut attachment hole (11) to caulk and stick the nut attachment hole (11) and the caulking nut (5).
Claims4
A mounting assembly for attaching a strut to an outer cylinder attachment plate of a vehicle body, said mounting assembly comprising:
- an outer cylinder including an attachment piece having a hole provided therein;
- a caulking nut comprising a cylindrical portion, a nut portion and a bolt hole disposed through said cylindrical portion and said nut portion;
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- a bolt extending through said hole and said bolt hole such that a head of said bolt is disposed adjacent to the outer cylinder attachment plate,
- wherein said cylindrical portion has a plurality of corrugations thereon,
- wherein said cylindrical portion is disposed in the hole such that material of said outer cylinder occupies said plurality of corrugations thereby inhibiting a rotational movement of said caulking nut.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.