03/27/2014 | 01:43am US/Eastern
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by VerticalNews journalists, a patent by the inventors Scroggie, Derek (Macomb, MI); Osterland, Robert (East China, MI); Morris, Keith (Grand Blanc, MI), filed on August 20, 2010, was published online on March 18, 2014.
The assignee for this patent, patent number 8671527, is Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, IL).
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “In many assemblies, it is necessary to connect one panel or object to another panel or object. For example, in the assembly of automobiles, various panels and structures are often connected to other panels or structures or to the automobile frame. To facilitate assembly, it is known to use snap-together type fasteners. Also, it is known to preassemble the fastener with one of the components and to thereafter connect (…)
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