Grommet

Details Grommet Grommet

2011-01-11

2011-01-11

Patel, Dhiru R (Department: 2831)

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Insulators

Through wall or plate

C174S151000, C174S1520GM, C016S002100, C248S056000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07868256

ABSTRACT:
A grommet, made of an elastic body, is externally mounted on a group of electric wires to be spanned between a car-body panel and a movable body consisting of a door or a trunk lid coupled to the car-body panel through a hinge member. The grommet has large-diameter cylindrical parts which are disposed on one and other ends thereof in a longitudinal direction thereof and have an annular locking groove respectively to be inserted into and locked to a through-hole formed through the car-body panel and a through-hole formed through the trunk lid respectively; small-diameter cylindrical parts continuous with the large-diameter cylindrical parts respectively; and a bellows-like cylindrical part provided between the small-diameter cylindrical parts with the bellows-like cylindrical part continuous with the small-diameter cylindrical parts.

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English language Abstract of JP 2001-251736.
English language Abstract of JP 2003-348736.
English language Abstract of JP 2001-258129.

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