US 8,985,924 B2Granted

Partition structure and installation structure for installation part

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsMitsuyoshi Nakamura, Hajime Seino

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Abstract

A partition structure for absorbing an impact energy applied to the partition for petitioning a vehicle room includes a cover, a plurality of reinforcing member (wires) arranged with an interval in the vehicle width direction inside the cover, and a belt arranged behind the reinforcing member so as to intersect the reinforcing member. An installation structure for an installation part fixes an installation part to an installation target member by engaging and screwing the bolt with nut. A fixing seat is formed on a back surface of the installation target member integrally with the installation target member. A bolt is arranged in the fixing seat through the installation target member, and a holding part holding a nut on a back surface side of the seating face to prevent the nut from rotating.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An installation structure and installation part fixed to an installation target member by the engagement and screwing of one fixing member with another fixing member, comprising:

a fixing seat comprising:
a seating face on which the other fixing member is arranged through the installation part;
and
a holding part configured to hold the one fixing member on a back surface of the seating face and prevent the one fixing member from rotation,
wherein
the seating face has a through hole formed therethrough at a predetermined position and through which a portion of either the one fixing member or the other fixing member penetrates for being engaged and screwed together with the other of the one fixing member and the other fixing member,
the seating face supports the installation part continuously around the through hole,
the holding part is formed integrally with the seating face and directly engages the one fixing member,
the one fixing member includes a thread part and a surrounding part, surrounding the thread part, having a size larger than the thread part in a direction extending parallel to the seating face, and
the holding part holds a whole of the surrounding part between the back surface of the seating face and the installation target member;
the other fixing member comprises a bolt and one fixing member comprises a nut screwed on the bolt, and the holding part includes multiple surfaces which engage different portions of the nut so as to prevent the nut from being rotated, and
the bolt includes a washer which opposes the seating face continuously around the through hole, and the nut includes a flange which opposes the seating face continuously around the through hole, and the washer and the flange sandwich the seating face and the installation part therebetween when the fixing members are engaged and screwed together.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/733,470Filed 3 Jan 2013 · division
Priority: JP 2009-28177111 Dec 2009
Published: US 2013/0147234 A113 Jun 2013
Granted: 24 Mar 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B60R 21/02
Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic…
B60N 2/3013
About transversal axis: the back-rest being hinged on the vehicle frame
B60N 2/36
Convertible for other use: into a loading platform
B60N 2/4221
Longitudinal: due to impact coming from the front

Family

Application12/962,886Parent of this division · filed 8 Dec 2010
US 2013/0147234 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Jun 2013
US 8,348,332 B2Parent of this division
US 2011/0140480 A1Published application
US 8,985,924 B2This patent

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