Positioning device for adjustable housing
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsJuergen Zeiher, Thomas Klaas, Sabine Koerber, Andreas Reichert
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Abstract
A holding device for an adjustable housing, such as the housing of a radar sensor, which allows the position of the housing at a mounting location to be changed in at least one degree of freedom using least one adjusting screw. In this context, the at least one adjusting screw is held at the mounting location in a fixing dome so that it can be rotated and tilted, the respective fixing dome of plastic being capable of being snapped into a corresponding opening at the mounting location so that it is secured against rotation and pulling.
Claims6
A holding device for an adjustable housing, comprising:
- at least one fixing dome positioned at at least one mounting location of the adjustable housing;
- and
- at least one adjusting screw held in the at least one fixing dome, the at least one adjusting screw being rotatable and tiltable;
- wherein a position of the adjustable housing at one of the at least one mounting location is changeable within at least one degree of freedom using at least one of the at least one adjusting screws which hold the adjustable housing at the at least one mounting location,
- wherein the at least one fixing dome is snappable into an opening at the at least one mounting location to secure it against rotation and pulling, and
- wherein the at least one fixing dome is mounted in an intermediate holder between the adjustable housing and the at least one mounting location.
A holding device for an adjustable housing, comprising:
- at least one fixing dome positioned at at least one mounting location of the adjustable housing;
- and
- at least one adjusting screw held in the at least one fixing dome, the at least one adjusting screw being rotatable and tiltable;
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- blind rivets disposed in the adjustable housing to hold the adjusting screws on the housing, the adjusting screws being driven into the blind rivets with their threads in a self-locking action,
- wherein a position of the adjustable housing at one of the at least one mounting location is changeable within at least one degree of freedom using at least one of the at least one adjusting screws which hold the adjustable housing at the at least one mounting location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.