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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1998
Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd, Komaki, JP;
Abstract
A quick connector assembly includes a male member, a female member, and a retainer. The retainer is interposed between a ring-shaped projection of the male member and a first engagement portion of the female member to connect the male member and female member. When a worker holds operation end portions of the retainer with his or her fingers, the retainer is reduced diametrically so that a second engagement portion of the retainer disengages from the first engagement portion of the female member. Accordingly, the male member and retainer can be pulled off from the female member easily. The retainer holds the male member by fitting its aperture windows with the ring-shaped projection of the male member. Consequently, the retainer hardly falls down from the male member after it is removed from the female member. The male member can be removed sidewise through a substantially-letter-C-shaped opening of the retainer while diametrically enlarging a cross-sectionally substantially-letter-C-shaped body of the retainer. Thus, the retainer is deformed so less that it can be reused repeatedly a number of times.