Electricity: conductors and insulators – Conduits – cables or conductors – Combined
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-04
2001-08-14
Riley, Shawn (Department: 2838)
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Conduits, cables or conductors
Combined
C174S0720TR
Reexamination Certificate
active
06274815
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a circuit member-holding clamp for holding a plurality of circuit members (such as wires) in a parallel, juxtaposed manner, and for being fixedly secured to a wall when installing these circuit members. This invention also relates to a method of producing this circuit member-holding clamp.
The present application is based on Japanese Patent Application No. Hei. 10-157612, which is incorporated herein by reference.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 7
shows the related wire holding clamp (see Unexamined Japanese Patent Publication No. 7-231538) for holding a plurality of wires in a juxtaposed manner and for being fixedly secured to a wall.
This wire holding clamp A is molded of a synthetic resin, and a lid
3
is connected to one end of a base plate
1
through a flexible hinge
2
. When the lid
3
is closed, a lock hole
5
, formed in a lock member
4
formed at one end of the lid
3
, is engaged with a lock pawl
6
formed on the other end of the base plate
1
.
A plurality of support legs
7
are formed upright on an inner surface of the base plate
1
in a juxtaposed manner, and roof-like wire introducing portions
8
are formed on distal ends of the support legs
7
, respectively.
The lid
3
is first opened, and then a wire W is pressed against the adjacent wire introducing portions
8
, and as a result the wire introducing portions
8
, thus pressed by the wire W, are elastically deformed to allow the passage of the wire W, so that the wire W is inserted between the support legs
7
(see FIG.
8
).
The gap between the adjacent wire introducing portions
8
is smaller than the diameter of the wire W, and therefore even if a force, tending to disengage the wire from the clamp, acts on the wire, the wire will not be disengaged from the clamp, and is kept retained between the support legs
7
.
After all the wires are inserted, the lid
3
is closed, so that the lock member
4
is engaged with the lock pawl
6
. Then, a clip
9
(see FIG.
8
), formed on an outer surface of the base plate
1
, is pressed against a hole portion formed in a mounting portion of a wall, so that a distal end portion of the clip
9
is elastically compressed, and is passed through this hole. This distal end portion, when passed through the hole, is elastically restored, and therefore the wire holding clamp A is fixedly secured to the wall.
The wire holding clamp A need to have rigidity enough to retain the wires, and the clip
9
, formed integrally with this clamp, also need to have sufficient rigidity to be fixedly secured to the wall so as to support the wire holding clamp A on the wall.
However, the wall, on which the wires W are to be installed or mounted, does not always have a flat surface. When the wire holding clamp A is to be mounted on a curved wall B as shown in
FIG. 9
, this mounting operation can not be easily carried out, and besides there are encountered problems that the wire holding clamp A lifts off the wall B, so that a gap or space is formed between the clamp A and the wall B, that a foreign matter is liable to be caught by the wire holding clamp A projecting from the wall B, and that the installation of the wires W is difficult if the installation space is narrow.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention seeks to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a circuit member (e.g. wire)-holding clamp which can be mounted on a wall surface without any problem even if this wall surface is curved. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing the circuit member-holding clamp.
According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a circuit member-holding clamp, for securing a plurality of juxtaposed circuit members to a wall, comprising a plurality of tubular portions respectively surrounding-circuit members which are juxtaposed, the tubular portions being integrally connected together, wherein the circuit member-holding clamp is formed of a flexible resin material molded on the circuit members in an intersecting direction thereto.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, the circuit member-holding clamp may further comprises a thin wall portion formed between any two adjacent ones of the circuit members.
According to the third aspect of the present invention, preferably, the flexible resin material is a resin having hardness of approximately 60 to 80 degrees according to “JIS K6301”.
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the circuit member-holding clamp may further comprises at least two flat mounting piece portions respectively formed on utmost opposite ends of the tubular portions.
According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, preferably, the tubular portions are juxtaposed to connect tubular walls thereof integrally with each other.
According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of producing a circuit member-holding clamp. First, a plurality of juxtaposed circuit members are placed on a mating surface of a lower die. Next, a flexible resin material is poured into a cavity in the lower die. Then, an upper die is placed on the mating surface of the lower die. As a result of the method, the circuit members are insert molded in the flexible resin material between the upper and lower dies.
According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of producing a circuit member-holding clamp. First, a plurality of juxtaposed circuit members are passed through mating surfaces of upper and lower dies mated together. Then, a flexible resin material is poured into a cavity formed by the upper and lower dies. As a result of the method, the circuit members insert molded in the flexible resin material molded in the cavity.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4300284 (1981-11-01), Reeder
patent: 4375379 (1983-03-01), Luetzow
patent: 4874908 (1989-10-01), Johansson
patent: 3616649 A1 (1987-11-01), None
patent: 0 298 744 A1 (1989-01-01), None
patent: 7-231538 (1995-08-01), None
patent: 7-231539 (1995-08-01), None
Morgan & Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Riley Shawn
Yazaki -Corporation
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