Ford Motor Company Limited

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

William Beal Fort

James Braden Roberts

Joseph F Basmaji

Michael Robert Kaput

Anthony M Horvath

Laural S Feldmeier

Bernhard J Reif

Jeffrey E Bautz

Chris Sungyong Jung

Richard A McClean

Walter Jasiolek

Timothy Gerald Taylor

Matthew Moyler Cole

Edward John Vinarcik

Doug Patton

Candace Glasgow

A resilient clip for retaining a fuel injector housing to a fuel rail cup. The clip includes a pair of opposing sidewalls. Each one of the pair of opposing sidewalls of the clip has a frontal portion and a rear portion. The frontal portion has a pair of inwardly extending shoulders for insertion into a pair of opposing slotted regions into the fuel injector housing. The frontal portion includes a pair of opposing slots formed in the frontal sidewall portions of the clip. The slots of the clip are elevated above the shoulders therein for receiving portions of the lip of the cup. The rear portion has a pair of opposing sidewalls and a backwall. The opposing sidewalls and the backwall of the rear portion of the rear portion form a slot for the clip. The slot is for receiving a tab of the fuel rail cup. When the injector housing, clip, and cup are assembled, the lip of the cup is disposed in the slots of the clip, the shoulders of the clip are disposed in the slotted region of the fuel injector housing, and the tab is disposed within the slot of the clip. Circumferential rotation of the clip about the longitudinal axis of the cup relative to the cup is restrained by engagement of sidewalls of the tab of the cup with the sidewalls of the clip. Circumferential rotation of the clip relative to the injector housing is restrained by engagement of the stops with edges of the shoulders of the clip. Axial motion of the fuel injector housing relative to the cup is restrained by engagement of the shoulders of the clip with the slotted portion of the fuel injector housing and by engagement of the lip of the cup with edges of the slots in the clip.

Fuel injector retention arrangement

An orientation clip (42) has an axially- and circumferentially-united attachment with a fuel injector (13) to orient the fuel injector circumferentially within a cup (32) on a fuel manifold (30). The clip has axially extending orientation tabs (46) that pass through open spaces provided by notches (56) in the rim of the cup to circumferentially locate the clip to the cup, and hence the fuel injector to the cup.

Arrangement for orienting a fuel injector to a fuel manifold cup

A retaining clip includes a cantilever arm which engages an exterior tab affixed to the outer surface of the retaining clip. The inner surface of the cantilever arm and the outer surface of the engaging tab both include a number of serrated catches. The catches are situated such that the inner surface catches of the cantilever arm are opposing the outer surface catches of the engaging tab. When the retaining clip is engaged, the serrated catches form a secure mesh. The retaining clip also includes a latch which further secures the engaged clip while also providing a means of unfastening the clip without specialized tools.

Fuel regulator retaining clip

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Dearborn, MI, United States of America

William Beal Fort