Piolax, Inc.

Kyowa Sangyo Co., Ltd.

Hayashi Telempu Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Nakajima

Naoki Umemura

Makoto Oguri

Hisashi Suzuki

Seiji Yamamoto

An embodiment provides a fastener including a locking member and a pin member which are connected. The locking member has a pair of leg portions that are inserted into the mount hole and a flange portion that is brought into abutment with a portion of the mount-base member that lies on a circumference of the mount hole. The pin member has a head portion that is connected to the flange portion and an extending portion that extends from a rear side of the head portion. When the head portion of the pin member is forced into the locking member, a connection between the flange portion and the head portion is released, and the extending portion travels between the pair of leg portions to expand open the pair of leg portions or to restrict the pair of leg portions from moving towards each other.

Fastener

A metal clip for vehicle accessory fixation and a vehicle accessory installation structure using the metal clip, capable of improving a yield ratio of a metal plate required to form the metal clip and capable of reliably performing temporary fixation of accessories to an interior member. A metal clip () for vehicle accessory fixation has first V-shaped tabs () that are bent into a substantially V shape as seen from a side, an end edge of each of which V-shaped tabs () is an installation section () for engaging with a base section () of an accessory, and in which an engagement section () for engagement with an installation hole of a vehicle panel is provided in the middle of each tab; an extension section () extended in a folding line () direction from a valley bottom section () of the first V-shaped tabs (); and second V-shaped tabs () that extend from both sides of the extension section () in the direction crossing the extension section (), each of which second V-shaped tabs () is bent in a V shape with an extension section () as the valley bottom section (), and whose end sections () engage with holes () of an interior member () to temporarily fix the accessory.

Metal clip for vehicle accessory fixation and structure using the same

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Yokohama, Japan

Takeshi Nakajima