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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2003
Daniel M. Eggert, Kenosha, WI (US);
Dean J. Iwinski, Muskegon, WI (US);
Michael L. Foster, Kenosha, WI (US);
Daniel M. Eggert, Kenosha, WI (US);
Dean J. Iwinski, Muskegon, WI (US);
Michael L. Foster, Kenosha, WI (US);
Snap-on Incorporated, Pleasant Prairie, WI (US);
Abstract
A low clearance drive system includes a low clearance socket and/or a low clearance male driver (). The socket has a reduced depth drive receptacle and a reduced-depth output fastener receiving receptacle. Each of the male driver and the socket drive receptacle has an axial length (L) or depth which is less than its nominal transverse width (w). The male driver may have a detent ball () adapted to be engaged in a detent recess in the female drive receptacle, such that the ball diameter is less than half the nominal transverse drive width and may be either equal to or less than the diameter of the detent recess.