Two stage serviceable safety clip
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorYun Shin Lee
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Abstract
A serviceable safety clip for retaining an automotive trim panel to an inner panel. The serviceable safety clip includes a pin secured to the trim panel, wherein the pin includes a plurality of blades that each include a low retention detent and a high retention detent. The serviceable safety clip also includes a receiver that is secured to the inner panel, wherein the receiver includes an angled face to facilitate insertion of the pin detents and a holding face that retains the pin detents.
Claims20
A serviceable safety clip for retaining an automotive trim panel to an inner panel comprising:
- a pin secured to the trim panel and including a plurality of blades on opposing sides of a gap that each include high and low retention detents;
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- a receiver that is secured to the inner panel and includes an angled face to flex the blades into the gap and a holding face that retains the pin detents.
A serviceable safety clip for retaining an automotive trim panel to an inner panel comprising:
- a pin secured to the trim panel, wherein the pin includes a plurality of separate blades, further comprising:
- a first end and a second end;
- a high retention detent that includes a first angled face portion located proximate the first end of each of the plurality of separate blades and a first dropoff face proximate an end point of the first angled face portion;
- a low retention detent that includes a second angled face portion and a second dropoff face, wherein the low retention detent is located between the first dropoff face and the second end of each of each of the plurality of separate blades;
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- a receiver secured to the inner panel, wherein the receiver includes an angled face
- to facilitate flexing the plurality of separate blades toward each other upon insertion of the pin detents and a holding face that retains the first and second dropoff faces of the pin detents.
A clip for retaining an automotive trim panel to an inner panel comprising:
- a pin having a head secured to the trim panel and a plurality of blades extending from the head and each including high and low retention detents;
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- a receiver secured to the inner panel and having a holding face that retains the high retention detent after the blades separately flex inward to dislodge the low retention detent from the holding face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.