03/12/2014 | 07:32pm US/Eastern
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — From Alexandria, Virginia, VerticalNews journalists report that a patent by the inventor Adachi, Takefumi (Sagamihara, JP), filed on April 14, 2010, was published online on March 4, 2014.The patent’s assignee for patent number 8662807 is NIFCO Inc. (Yokohama-Shi, JP).
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The present invention relates to a fastener, and a structure for fastening a member to be fastened, for removably fastening a trim board, or the like, to a vehicle body panel.
“A trim board of a vehicle is removably fastened to a vehicle body panel by using a fastener formed of a female member and a male member.
“For example, in Patent Document 1, a pair of projections is provided along a circumferential direction on an outer edge side of a lower face of a head part of a male member. Also, recessed parts are provided along a circumferential direction on a shaft part of the male member, and are delineated by partition walls of the recessed parts.
“Meanwhile, an engaging indented part in which the head part of the male member is to be fitted is provided on a flange of the female member, and saw tooth-shaped cams are formed on the upper face of the engaging indented part. Projections provided on the head part of the male member are made to be able to contact with inclined surfaces constituting the saw tooth-shaped cams. (…)
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