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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — Piolax, Inc. (Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa, JP) has been issued patent number 8695172, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by VerticalNews editors.The patent’s inventors are Nagai, Takao (Kanagawa, JP); Tanaka, Takeaki (Kanagawa, JP).
This patent was filed on September 1, 2010 and was published online on April 15, 2014.
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: “When connecting pipes in a motor vehicle together, for example, a flexible hose is placed on an outer circumference of an end portion of a pipe, and an outer circumference of the hose is fastened by a hose clamp, thereby fixing the hose to the pipe.
“For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a hose clamp including a C-shaped plate spring main body (a fastening ring 1) and a pair of grip pieces (one grip 2A and the other grip 2B) which are erected from both end portions of the plate spring main body in a radial direction so as to intersect each other. One grip piece is formed into an arch-shaped wide dimension in which a guide groove is opened, while the other grip piece is formed into a narrow dimension to be movable within the guide groove. When the plate spring main body is in the free state, the plate spring main body is diametrically contracted for fastening the hose. And, by bringing both the grip pieces close to each other, the plate spring main body is diametrically expanded. On the one grip piece, a hook-shaped locking portion (a locking portion 4) for engaging with the other grip piece and a taper portion (a guide portion 5) for guiding the other grip piece when it is disengaged from the locking portion are formed. (…)
