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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7316534 | Integrated pin and clip An integrated pin and clip for securing vehicle trailer components. The integrated pin and clip includes a shaft member and a clip member. The clip member is movable between a locked and an unlocked position. The unlocked position allows for the integrated pin and c... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7195291 | Locking device A locking device for locking an opening-and-closing moving body in a stopped position includes a striker body disposed on one of a striking part of the opening-and-closing moving body and a struck part of a non-moving body hitting against the striking part of the mo... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7152892 | Push latch A push-to-open latch is selectively moveable between latched and unlatched positions. The push-to-open latch comprises a latch assembly that is reciprocatable relative to a catch assembly. The latch assembly includes a latch housing having a housing bore extending t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7051695 | Valve cover fastener and method A valve cover fastener includes a bolt including an elongated threaded rod and a bolt head. The rod has a bottom end and a top end. The bolt head is integrally coupled to the top end. A nut is threadably coupled to the rod such that the nut is positioned between the... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6997658 | Alignment pin and fastener with bi-directional clamping An alignment pin or fastener includes a radially eccentric part such that when the fastener is tightened, the eccentric part shifts radially to simultaneously align the holes of two plates in a radial direction and clamp the two plates together in an axial direction... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6966735 | Screw mechanism In a screw locking assembly a pair of washers having inclined surfaces are interposed between a screw member on a tightening side and a member to be tightened, with the inclined surfaces being mutually contacted. These inclined surfaces circle around once in spiral ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962376 | Rotary lock seal A rotary lock seal includes a pin with an elongated shaft and an enlarged head at a rearward end. The forward end of the shaft has a peg projecting coaxially therefrom. An end cap has an enlarged head at a forward end and a central bore extending forwardly through t... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6575682 | Quarter turn fastener A quarter turn fastener, for securing a plurality of members together, includes a blade member which has upturned corner portions defining sharp points for bitingly engaging the undersurface of the lowermost one of the plurality of members so as to preven... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6250836 | Tolerance-compensation device Production-induced tolerances in the assembly of components involve very high outlay if, after the assembly, these components have to be located in a certain position in relation to one another. The novel tolerance-compensation device is intended to rende... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6007296 | Guide blade for steam turbines A guide blade for steam turbines, having in the blade interior a cavity (18) to which a vacuum is applied, is provided with an opening (3) for drawing off fluid in the region of the trailing blade edge (4). This opening is provided with a porous cover (7)... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5897278 | Turn fastener A fastener member having a head and a body portion with a plurality of arm members flexibly provided to compress a first member against a second member against the force of the fastener head to fasten the first and second members. The fastener member can ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5593265 | Quick-connect stored energy torsional fastener A stored energy torsional rotary fastener device providing ready releasable attachment of first and second components. A fastener housing, attached to the first component, includes a cylindrical socket having an upper open end and a lower end configured b... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5362187 | Releasable locking fastener A fastener is provided having a bolt releasably securable to a nut. The bolt includes a collar and resilient locking prongs with shoulders to anchor the bolt to a first member, such as a grommet or panel, and the nut has a nut body and resilient locking p... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5180268 | Expansion washer An expansion washer structure comprises first and second washer elements having projected ramp members which engage. The ramp members have sloped ramp and level segments adjacent to one another which are disposed to progressively engage as the washer elem... | 01/19/1993 |
| 4902181 | Spring action fastener A one piece fastener which uses spring action to fasten parts together. The fastener has a body which is inserted into a drilled aperture in the parts. An enlarged head on one end of the body is too large to enter the aperture. A spring on the other end o... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4886405 | Wall mounting device A device for bolting an article to a wall board, using a pre-drilled hole in the wall, is disclosed. The device comprises a volt, and an anchoring portion threadedly mounted to the bolt. This anchoring portion is resiliently deformable in one direction wh... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4850599 | Mechanical face seals A rotary mechanical face seal includes first and second seal face members, the sealing face of one seal face member being urged into engagement with the sealing face of the other seal face member, said seal face members being such that when subjected to t... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4812097 | Spring action fastener A one piece fastener which uses spring action to fasten parts together. The fastener has a body which is inserted into a drilled aperture in the parts. An enlarged head on one end of the body is too large to enter the aperture. A spring on the other end o... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4653970 | Quarter-turn fastener A quick action fastener suitable for fastening panels or the like in face-to-face contact, including a pierce nut adapted to be secured within one of the panels and a male stud inserted through the other panel and into a through-hole in the nut. The nut i... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4623290 | Externally threaded fiber-reinforced plastic member and a method of producing the same An externally threaded fiber-reinforced plastic member comprising a shank and an integral thread on the exterior surface on the shank, in which a plurality of first strands are arranged substantially in parallel and extending longitudinally of the axis of... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4430691 | Electromechanical display instrument assembly In a flight instrument having indicator assembly and heat generating electronics assembly, integral and thermally conductive structural supports are provided for each assembly. The assemblies are fastened together with shouldered screws such that there is... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4250600 | Slotted fastener A fastener including an enlarged head portion and a reduced diameter shank portion extending from one end of the head portion. A cam slot is formed in the end of the shank distal from the head portion. The cam slot has a spiral configuration and the entra... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4227287 | Full ejection stud assembly A full ejection stud assembly adapted to be coupled to one member and removably interconnected with a receptacle coupled to a second member to form a fastener assembly for holding the two members together. The stud assembly includes a stud having an enlar... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4207655 | Self-aligning quarter-turn fastener assembly A self-aligning, self-retracting quarter-turn fastener assembly in which one of two members to be joined rotatably supports the fastener and is provided with an elongated recess into which a crosspin intermediate the ends of the fastener shaft is urged by... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4166309 | Variable height receptacle A variable height receptacle adapted to be mounted on one of two members to be fastened and to be removably coupled with a stud mounted on the other of two members to be fastened. The receptacle includes a tubular housing having an opening on at least one... | 09/04/1979 |
