A. Raymond Et Cie

A. Raymond & Cie

A. Raymond, Inc.

Other

Johnson Controls Technology Company

Raymond, Albert

Jackson, Nicholas

Nicholas Jackson, Jr

Todd Lawrence Hemingway

Todd William Murray

Walter B Pipp, Jr

Jason F Reznar

Rene Dreiocker

Albert Raymond

Michael R Danby

Isabella Barrett

Shawn E Roberts

Martin Lambrecht

Kathy J Jackson

Andrew Johnston

Michael Osswald

Jimmy Voniez

Grégory Étienne

Walter B Pipp Jr

Todd L Hemingway

A high retention force fastener for fixing at least two panels together is disclosed. The fastener includes two components. One component is a metal clip and the other is a plastic insert that can be substantially inserted into the metal clip. The metal clip includes a body having opposed panel engagement features extending therefrom, an insertion stop plate spaced apart from the engagement features and plastic insert locking tabs extending from the stop plate. The metal clip is preferably U-shaped and includes two sides joined by a connector. Each of the sides includes a pair of the panel engagement features. The plastic insert includes a head and a leg for insertion into the metal clip. The leg extends from the head. The plastic insert additionally includes metal tab engagement arms extending from and integrally formed with the head for engaging the plastic insert locking tabs of the metal clip.

High retention force fastener

A fastener is provided. In another aspect, a fastener is made of layers of material, a light curable material and/or multiple built-up materials. Another aspect uses a three-dimensional printing machine to emit material from an ink jet printing head to build up a fastener.

Method of making winged fasteners by three-dimensional printing

A fluid control valve having a shape memory alloy spring for moving a valve member between an open position and a closed position is provided. The valve includes a valve assembly cylinder, a valve assembly cap fitted to the cylinder, a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet associated with the cylinder, a first member having a cam follower groove, a second member having a cam operatively associated with the groove, a fluid flow gate associated with one of the members as well as the inlet and the outlet, a return spring associated with one of the members, and the shape memory alloy spring associated with one of the members. The length of the shape memory alloy spring changes in response to changes in temperature. The first member is either a rotating valve or a reciprocating member. The second member is either a reciprocating ring or a rotating valve cylinder.

Fluid control valve utilizing shape memory alloy driving spring

A hollow conduit is provided. In another aspect, a quick connector, suitable to carry fluid therethrough, is made of layers of material, a light curable material and/or multiple built-up materials. Another aspect uses a three-dimensional printing machine to emit material from an ink jet printing head to build up a conduit.

Connectors manufactured by three-dimensional printing

A valve apparatus employs a shape memory alloy. In another aspect, a shape memory member acts as a lock or trigger in combination with a separate actuator or spring to move a valve. Still another aspect uses an externally mounted shape memory member to rotate a valve if an unsafe condition causes movement of the member.

Shape memory alloy valve

A wire management system and, more particularly, a wire management system including at least one wire track unit having mount rotatably positioned on the wire track unit along with an integrally formed tension tab for holding wires in the wire track assembly during use.

Wire management system

Method of making fasteners by three-dimensional printing

A smart material actuated fastener is provided. In another aspect, a fastener includes a shape memory material and a non-shape memory material with the shape memory material being a minority of the total fastener materials. A further aspect provides a fastener having workpiece-engaging surfaces made of an inactive and non-shape memory material.

Smart material actuated fasteners

A component is provided that includes at least one passageway. In another aspect, a component, such as a lamp or a vehicular washer jet, is made of layers of material, a light curable material and/or multiple built-up materials. Another aspect uses a three-dimensional printing machine to emit material from an ink jet printing head to build up a component.

Process of making a component with a passageway

A spiral fastener is provided. In another aspect, a spiral fastener, is made of layers of material and/or a light curable material. Another aspect uses a three-dimensional printing machine to emit material from an ink jet printing head to build up a fastener having a spiral formation.

Method of making printed fastener

A fastener having a shank with a moveable portion that improves insertion of the fastener into an aperture, as well as improves the retention of the fastener within the aperture and the resistance of the fastener to extraction.

Fastener

The present invention provides a fastener mounting clip for use in securing a fastener to sheet material having a bore hole formed therein. The fastener mounting clip is preferably formed of a single sheet of thin spring steel. The mounting clip includes a rectilinear planar surface having opposing retainer arms extending beneath its outer edge at obtuse angles. The retaining arms are resiliently flexible and compress and expand during insertion wherein a top end of the retaining arm abuts against the sheet material when the fastener mounting clip is fully seated within the bore hole. The planar surface includes support tabs for supporting the planar surface in the plane of the sheet material and also includes a recessed aperture for receiving and retaining a fastener therein.

Sheet metal fastening clip

A fastener for coupling a trim panel to a support member includes a mounting grommet with a funnel-shaped receiver communicating with an aperture for receiving one end of a fastener pin having a plurality of spaced annular ratcheting grooves formed thereon. The opposite or second end of the pin includes a pointed end with a pair of resilient locking arms, which extend divergently outwardly and away from an apex of the second end of the pin at an acute angle and at a spacing of about 180&deg;, for insertion into an aperture of a support structure. Interposed between the first and second ends of the fastening pin is a resilient, generally cup-shaped seal which engages a surface of the support structure opposite the locking arms for providing a seal surrounding the aperture in the support structure to which the fastening pin is inserted. The grommet includes an annular slot defined by a collar on one side and a shoulder of the funnel-shaped receiver on the other. The shoulder includes an outwardly extending, resilient, annular flange cooperating with the support structure secured to the trim panel for centering the grommet. A trim panel includes a support socket including a slotted aperture for receiving the shoulder of the grommet and a pair of resilient locking arms which extend to one edge of the aperture for engaging the edge of the collar of the grommet when inserted into the support socket to lock the grommet in place while allowing a slight lateral adjustment for final alignment.

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Davisburg, MI, United States of America

Nicholas Jackson, Jr