Hood overslam bumper assembly
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorHo Lim
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Abstract
A hood overslam bumper assembly includes an overslam bumper having a cylindrical shape and having a screw thread groove formed in an outer peripheral surface thereof, a ring-carrier having a hole formed at the center thereof to have the overslam bumper inserted into an inner side surface thereof and having a screw thread formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof, the screw thread being coupled to the screw thread groove, and a housing having one side fixed to an insertion hole of a hood inner panel, having a hole formed at the center thereof to have the ring-carrier inserted into an inner side surface thereof, and having an elastic part provided on an outer peripheral surface thereof to fix the ring-carrier inserted into the inner side surface thereof.
Claims6
A hood overslam bumper assembly comprising:
- an overslam bumper having a cylindrical shape and having a screw thread groove formed in an outer peripheral surface thereof;
- a ring-carrier having a hole formed at a center thereof to receive the overslam bumper into an inner side surface of the hole and having a screw thread formed on an inner peripheral surface of the ring carrier, the screw thread being coupled to the screw thread groove of the overslam bumper;
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- a housing having one side directly fixed to an insertion hole of a hood inner panel, having a hole formed at a center thereof to have the ring-carrier inserted into an inner side surface thereof, and having an elastic part provided on an outer peripheral surface of the housing to temporarily hold the ring-carrier inserted into the inner side surface of the housing,
- wherein an outer peripheral surface of the ring carrier has a curved portion and one side of the elastic part is protruded to be temporarily engaged into the curved portion of the ring carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.