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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1999
Yoshimi Uchida, Yokkaichi, JP;
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Mie, JP;
Abstract
A clamp that is locked to a body panel by inserting a flexible locking blade portion thereof into an installing hole and utilizing a return of the locking blade portion to an original state thereof when the locking blade portion exceeds the installing hole. The clamp comprises a resinous material having Rockwell hardness at 100 or more and 150 or less and molded by one-piece molding. When the clamp fits on the body panel, a fit-on sound and consciousness of a return of the locking blade portion to the original state are generated. In the clamp, an increase of an insertion force that is generated by increasing a hardness of the clamp is offset by increasing a height of a projection portion with respect to a substrate portion and decreasing an angle of the locking blade portion formed by turning down a front end of the projection portion to decrease a projection amount of the locking blade portion in a lateral direction thereof.