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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2006
Dennis G. Tomory, Boardman, OH (US);
Robert Joseph Hrusovsky, Warren, OH (US);
Peter T. Bucco, Cortland, OH (US);
Dennis G. Tomory, Boardman, OH (US);
Robert Joseph Hrusovsky, Warren, OH (US);
Peter T. Bucco, Cortland, OH (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A tie device has a tie strap and a buckle engaging serrations on a free end of the tie strap retaining the free end of the tie strap in the buckle A passage extends through the buckle from an insertion end to an exit end. A cam action lock pawl is located in the passage. The lock pawl has a first resilient leg that is attached to a fulcrum portion of the buckle; that slants upward with respect to a base wall of the passage toward the exit end of the passage and that terminates in a free end. The lock pawl has a second resilient leg that is attached to the first resilient leg and that extends back toward the insertion end of the passage. The second resilient leg has a plurality of teeth that are mutually engageable with respective serrations of the tie strap.