Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Having separate expander means – Having securing element projecting through aperture in sleeve
Patent
1993-07-19
1995-09-26
Abrams, Neil
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Having separate expander means
Having securing element projecting through aperture in sleeve
411 34, F16B 1304
Patent
active
054529751
ABSTRACT:
A pressure-extrusion mechanical connector for interconnecting first and second structural elements, and including: a connector housing member coupled or coupleable to one of the first and second structural elements, with an interior volume in the housing member and an egress opening in the housing member communicating with the interior volume therein; an occlusion element arranged for selective translation into the interior volume, to correspondingly occlude at least a portion of the interior volume of the housing member; and a pressure-extrudable material, e.g., an elastomeric thermoplastic polymer, disposed in the interior volume. Pressure is selectively exertable on the pressure-extrudable material by the occlusion element when translated into the interior volume of the housing member, so that upon such translation, the pressure-extrudable material is extruded through the egress opening exteriorly of the housing, to form a gripping or locking extruded member. The extrudate locking portion of the pressure-extrudable material may for example be received within a cavity of a recipient structural member, or simply provide an extended area extrudate mass around the periphery of an opening through which the housing member is passed, for interconnection of the desired structural elements. The connector of the invention may be usefully employed for connection of cables to ports of personal computer systems, as well as for securing expansion cards and the like in the CPU of a computer system.
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Abrams Neil
Hultquist Steven J.
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