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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Michael Anthony Manor, Riverview, MI (US);
Kazuhiro Shimizu, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Takeshi Takahashi, Novi, MI (US);
Abstract
An eyelet terminal for holding a bolt in a pre-set position relative to a mounting member wherein the threaded portion of the bolt is proximate a female threaded portion of the mounting member. In this pre-set position, the bolt is on the verge of engagement with the female threaded portion so that rotation of the bolt causes it to immediately begin to engage the female threaded portion. The terminal has two generally circular eyelets connected with one another by a spacing member which maintains the two eyelets in a spaced apart and generally parallel relationship. The first eyelet has a plurality of circumferentially spaced tabs projecting radially inward into its aperture to engage a bolt and maintain it in rotatable connection with the terminal such that the bolt shank passes through both eyelet apertures. The second eyelet has retainer prongs extending generally perpendicular therefrom. The retainer is inserted into engagement with a first hole in the mounting member so that the second eyelet is adjacent the mounting member and the bolt is aligned with a threaded hole in the mounting member. The first and second eyelets are spaced apart by a distance such that when the bolt is captive in the first eyelet and the retainer is engaged with the mounting member, the bolt is maintained in the pre-set position. As the bolt is driven into engagement with the mounting member, the spacing member deforms to allow the first eyelet to move toward the second eyelet.