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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1999
Stephen Norman Bazinski, Amherstburg, CA;
Albert James Dapoz, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Visteon Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An article of manufacture in the form of a screw retaining mechanism for assembling a pair of objects. The mechanism comprises a tubular wall of given thickness defining a plastic boss on one object; a screw having a threaded shank secured in the boss by grooves complementary to the screw threads, the screw having a head clamping the other object to the first object; and a heat shrunk sheath residing on the screw threads and shank to act as a threaded interference fit film between the screw threads and the boss grooves, the sheath having metal wires weavingly embedded into the sheath to extend at least generally parallel to the axis of the tubular wall.