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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2021
Häfele Berlin Gmbh & CO KG, Berlin, DE;
Ulrich Merz, Regensburg, DE;
Häfele Berlin GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
An expansion connector connecting two furniture panels includes a bolt having a cylindrical bolt shaft with a bolt head opposite an expansion cone. A plastics expansion sleeve is mounted displaceably on the bolt having at least two expansion tabs, each of which has a radially outwardly protruding collar. The expansion sleeve can be transferred, by a displacement relative to the bolt, from a non-expanded starting position into an expanded end position where the expansion tabs are radially outwardly expanded. In the starting position, the expansion tabs bear against the bolt shaft by a guide portion and divides the expansion tabs into a first tab portion facing the bolt head and a second tab portion facing away from the bolt head. The first tab portions are radially spaced apart from the bolt shaft, and, in the end position, the expansion tabs are each pivoted about the edge of the guide portion.