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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
May. 30, 2017
Sensata Technologies, Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);
Ernie Schoot Uiterkamp, Heeten, NL;
Jan Bos, Emmen, NL;
Sensata Technologies , Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);
Abstract
Assembly systems and methods are provided for elastically deforming a non-circularly shaped washer while driving the washer through an insertion tool into a workpiece, such as a pressure sensor, having a correspondingly shaped recess with an inner wall diameter less than a maximum radial dimension of the non-circular washer. The washer is released from radial compression into the recess so as to permit the washer to become fixated against the inner wall of the recess by a retention force. The fixated washer has a height greater than a height of the recess inner wall, and may serve as a deformable sealing element between the workpiece and other components.