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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2023
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Semblex Corporation, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Nicholas Dornik, Canton, MI (US);
Amanda Kay Freis, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Garret Sankey Huff, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Brandt J. Ruszkiewicz, Cumming, GA (US);
Stephen J. Crockett, Bartlett, IL (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Semblex Corporation, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Abstract
A screw includes a head portion, an externally threaded shank extending from the head portion, the externally threaded shank having an external surface, and a flow-hole-forming tip disposed at a distal end portion of the externally threaded shank. The flow-hole-forming tip includes a radiused lower zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the externally threaded shank, a conical middle zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the radiused lower zone, the conical middle zone defining a vertex angle, and a radiused distal end zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the conical middle zone. The flow-hole-forming tip includes a width of the flow-hole-forming tip is greater than a length of the flow-hole-forming tip and/or the vertex angle is greater than or equal to 90 degrees.