Grommet

Details Grommet Grommet

1998-04-22

2000-07-18

Knight, Anthony

Miscellaneous hardware (e.g., bushing, carpet fastener, caster,

Bushing

16 22, 174 65G, 174153G, H02R 322, F16L 500

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060888741

ABSTRACT:
A grommet including a cylindrical wire fitting portion for fitting on and holding a wire harness passing therethrough, and a panel fitting portion of a substantially oval tubular shape for being elastically deformed to be fitted in a through-hole of an oval shape formed through a panel. Straight portions of an abutment flange portion of the panel fitting portion are convex to be larger in thickness than arcuate portions of the abutment flange portion. The panel fitting portion includes a slanting guide portion to be guided to the through-hole in the panel, a fitting groove to be fitted in the through-hole, and the abutment flange portion to be abutted against that portion of the panel around the through-hole, and straight portions of a distal end portion of the slanting guide portion are outwardly convex to be larger in thickness than arcuate portions of the distal end portion, and the straight portions of the abutment flange portion are outwardly convex to be larger in thickness than the arcuate portions of the abutment flange portion. The straight portions of the abutment flange portion are further inwardly convex to be further larger in thickness than the arcuate portions of the abutment flange portion.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2494814 (1950-01-01), Huth
patent: 4928349 (1990-05-01), Oikawa et al.

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