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US 8,234,895 B2Granted
Key apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsYuji Nakamoto, Hirofumi Goshima, Tomonori Kawachi
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Abstract
There is provided a key apparatus, including: a key cylinder that is rotatable when a vehicle key is inserted; and an accommodating portion in which an assembling member is assembled in a body member, the body member and the assembling member form an inner surface, and the key cylinder is accommodated in the inner surface.
Claims8
A key apparatus, comprising:
- a warning switch;
- a key cylinder that is rotatable when a vehicle key is inserted;
- and
- an accommodating portion in which an assembling member is assembled in a body member having a inner surface open at both ends, and the assembling member having a rear wall such that the body member and the assembling member form a key cylinder accommodating surface that retains the key cylinder at a back end and that slidably receives the key cylinder at a front end,
- wherein the body member further includes an outer cylindrical surface at its front end that includes an attaching portion that attaches the warning switch.
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A key apparatus, comprising:
- a warning switch;
- a key cylinder that is rotatable when a vehicle key is inserted;
- and
- an accommodating portion in which an assembling member is assembled in a body member having an inner surface open at both ends, and the assembling member having a rear wall such that the body member and the assembling member form a key cylinder accommodating surface that retains the key cylinder at a back end and that slidably receives the key cylinder at a front end,
- wherein the body member further includes an outer cylindrical surface at its front end that includes an attaching portion that attaches the warning switch, and a tube portion which, in combination with the rear wall of the assembling member defines in its interior the key cylinder accommodating surface, wherein the tube portion includes:
- an accommodating tube having an approximately cylindrical shape and being formed at an upper portion of the body member;
- and
- an assembling tube having an approximately rectangular tube shape and being formed below a rear portion of the accommodating tube,
- wherein the assembling tube is spaced away from the front end of the accommodating tube to form the outer cylindrical surface at the front end of the body member that includes the attaching portion that attaches the warning switch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.