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Application Number:  20120039687

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Ostergren, Kristian Albert

The invention relates to a fastener and a fastening system for fixing a curtain airbag in a vehicle. The fastener is fixed to a mounting hole in a body frame or the like of the vehicle by inserting an attachment portion of the fastener into the mounting hole while a head portion securing the attachment of the airbag curtain to the fastener and the vehicle. The fastener comprises a first load bearing structure adapted to maintain its shape when the airbag curtain is activated and a second energy ...
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Application Number:  20120039686

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Miller, David E.; Allen, Scott W.

A wedge fastener configured for use in extreme ambient conditions includes a pin or bolt having a head and a shank with an elongate slot through the shank. The wedge fastener also includes a wedge sized so that at least a portion of the wedge may extend through the elongate slot to grip a flange between the head and the wedge. The wedge fastener also includes a locking mechanism for locking the wedge in a gripping position against the flange. In one example, the locking mechanism includes ...
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Application Number:  20120039685

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Holscher, Winfried K.W.

A method for manufacturing a screw element (1) with a first external thread section (3) and with a second external thread section (5), wherein the screw element (1) to be manufactured is characterized in that the second external thread section (5) is positioned relative to the first external thread section (3) in such a way as to yield a braking torque when tightening the two external thread sections (3, 5) with an internal thread element ...
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Application Number:  20120037528

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Schütz, Udo

A fastening device for fastening a tube to a bearing structure, particularly a horizontal mesh frame tube of a mesh cage attached to a transport pallet used to hold a liquid container. To form the fastening device the tube has a fastening section with a zone flattened by compression and provided with a fastening hole to accommodate a fastening bolt connecting the fastening section to the bearing structure. The fastening hole has a perimeter shaped such that the perimeter defines a force ...
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Application Number:  20120034049

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  BROWN, GRANT PERRY

A ratchet mounting fastener includes a rigid body having a socket drive receiving cavity formed in a first end for receiving a male socket drive shaft into snug mating engagement and releasable locking means to releasably lock the fastener onto the drive shaft, and having a threaded portion on an opposite second end for threaded mating engagement of the threaded portion with a threaded second fastener, the cavity and the threaded portion are oppositely disposed for mounting of the drive shaft ...
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Application Number:  20120034048

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Karupaya, Balasingam

A thread forming screw thread fastener for fastening into a hole formed by the fastener in a work piece, the fastener comprising: a head having a drive to be engaged with a driver bit; and a shank with threads having a symmetrical thread profile with a minor diameter and a major diameter, the major diameter defining a thread crest of the screw thread, and the minor diameter defining the thread root of the screw thread, the profile of the screw thread defined by the surface of the screw thread ...
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Application Number:  20120034047

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  LIANG, AN-GANG; SUN, ZHENG-HENG; HE, JUN

A fastener includes a head, a threaded shaft, a latching member, and a flexible washer. The threaded shaft extends from the head. The latching member extends from peripheral of the threaded shaft and adjacent to the head. The washer latches onto the latching ...
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Application Number:  20120034046

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Cooper, Joseph B.; Hayton, Paul R.

A fastener (2) comprising an elongate core (4) and made of titanium or titanium alloy, and a sleeve (6) made of a different material and having an external thread (26), the core (4) being disposed within the sleeve (6) and fixed with respect to the sleeve ...
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Application Number:  20120034045

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Luhm, Ralph

A temporary fastener or temporary blind rivet having a cylindrical sleeve and a sleeve head thereon, the region where the sleeve and sleeve head mate having a plurality of local protrusions thereon, with a stem passing through the sleeve head and sleeve, the stem having an enlarged stem head thereon adjacent the end of the sleeve opposite the sleeve head, the stem for pulling relative to the sleeve head to cause the enlarged stem head to form a blind side head on the sleeve, to pull the ...
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Application Number:  20120028070

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Sowa, Christian; BABEJ, Jiri; Humpert, Richard; Vieth, Michael

A self-piercing nut element having a strength in the range between 700 and 900 MPa is described which is designed for press fitting into a sheet metal part (40). The nut element is characterized in that the nut element is designed, for the self-piercing attachment of the nut element into a higher strength sheet metal part, such that the piercing section merges directly into the sheet metal contact surface and such that the piercing section has a piercing edge at its free end face, with ...
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Application Number:  20120027539

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  DO, Vinh; RAYNAL, Jeffrey; MANSUKH, Mayur

A threaded joint includes a flange, a nut and a flexible seal. The flange, the nut and the flexible seal have threads respective inner surfaces, the threads having shapes complementary to threads on an outer surface of a stem. The flange is configured to allow the stem to move by rotation through the flange. The nut and the flexible seal are configured to move by rotation relative to the stem. The flange has a counter bore and the nut has a groove. The flexible seal has a first portion ...
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Application Number:  20120027538

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Thau, Sebastian; Baudy, Daniel

A fastening device comprising a head, an elongated shaft and a seal. The seal has a sealing element and a covering elements made of different ...
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Application Number:  20120027537

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Cosenza, Frank; Pinheiro, Rodrigo; Frias, Edgar; Haylock, Luke

A fastener including a bolt and a grommet assembly attached to the bolt for fastening to a work piece. The grommet assembly includes an upper grommet, a lower grommet attached to the upper grommet, a retainer ring, and a housing that houses the retainer ring within the lower grommet. The upper grommet is inserted into a hole at one side of the work piece and the lower grommet is attached to the upper grommet through the hole at an opposite side of the work piece. The retainer ring is inserted ...
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Application Number:  20120027536

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Cosenza, Frank; Pinheiro, Rodrigo; Frias, Edgar; Haylock, Luke

A retainer ring including an outer ring having an exterior surface, an interior surface, and a plurality of spring beam elements extending inwardly from the interior surface, and a central aperture. Each of the spring beam elements includes an elongated arm having a first end attached to the interior surface of the outer ring and a second, free end opposite the first end. Each of free ends of the arms includes a tab portion and a pressure pad that extends from the tab portion. The retainer ring ...
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Application Number:  20120025020

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Sriram, Suresh; Plithides, Gregory C.

Fasteners, such as bolts, nuts and screws, rivets, pins, and retaining rings, made of a highly kinked rigid-rod polyarylene exhibiting outstanding characteristics, notably a high torque and a high tensile elongation, a measure of practical ...
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Application Number:  20120023864

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Zheng, Danian; Gevers, William Francis

A bolt connection assembly is provided that is particularly suited for connecting components of a lattice structure wind tower. The assembly includes a pin component having a head and a shaft, with the shaft having a textured friction-fit outer circumferential surface. The shaft further includes a threaded internal bore. A bolt component having a threaded shaft engages within the threaded internal bore. In an assembled state of the pin component and bolt component, the threaded shaft has a free ...
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Application Number:  20120020757

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Cecchini, Albert

A safety tack has a pin that is extended from a head of the tack in one state and retracted into the head in another state. The pin retracts and extends into and from the head by using a turning mechanism similar to the mechanism that allows a bolt to turn into and out of a complimentary component (e.g. a nut). By having the retracted state, the tack can be handled without injury; and by having the extended configuration, the tack can be used to tack one object to ...
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Application Number:  20120017728

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Schmidt, Heiko

The invention relates to a setting tool for fasteners in the form of a hand-held tool, including a drive unit and a transfer and setting head that is drivably connected to the drive ...
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Application Number:  20120017529

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Weiss, Tad A.; Shadwell, Peter J.

A roof insulation fastening system employs a fastener and a compression plate with a tube which interacts with the compression plate to permit the plate to vertically move relative to the head of the fastener when the adjacent area and/or plate is subject to excessive compression. The tube includes a retainer shoulder and a pair of tabs wherein the plate captures the tube. The tube includes a throat and a tapered portion with a throughbore. The fastener is inserted into the tube and secured in ...
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Application Number:  20120017421

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Bland, T.J.; La Barbera, Robert

A drop-in anchor includes a tubular sleeve having a first end and an expandable second end, the sleeve including one or more indicator surfaces offset from the first end along a sleeve axis of the sleeve. A plug is insertable in the sleeve such that when the plug is driven into an installed position in the sleeve, the second end expands and an installation tool interacts with the first end to provide a visual indication, due to contrast in appearance with the one or more indicator surfaces, of ...
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