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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Hideki Kanie, Toyohashi, JP;
Newfrey LLC, Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
The clip comprises a hollow bushing with a flange and a shank , and a pin with a shank inserted into the bushing . The pin shank is inserted into the bushing shank to enlarge the bushing shank so workpieces are connected to each other by the enlarged section of the bushing shank and the bushing flange . A guide extending from the end of the bushing shank so the pin shank is inserted into the bushing shank without enlarging the bushing shank is formed in the end of the pin shank . The guide has a large diameter section larger than the end of the bushing shank. The diameter of the large diameter section is formed so as to be larger than the diameter of a thick section of the creep-deformed bushing shank when enlarged by the pin shank.