Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Mihama Seisakusho

Hatsuyuki Tanaka

Tadanobu Kumagai

Yutaka Matsuno

A clamp band which includes a strip member having an intermediate portion formed to substantially conform to the outline of an article to be fastened and two ends projected outward from the intermediate portion and a lever member welded to the two ends of the strip member. One of the two ends of the strip member extends approximately tangentially from the intermediate portion and the other extends to make an acute angle. The lever member is welded to the outside of the end located nearer the intermediate portion of the these ends when two ends of the strip member are brought down. The lever member is formed to contact closely an outer peripheral surface of the strip member and has high hardness edge portions extending longitudinally thereof.

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Chino, Japan

Hatsuyuki Tanaka