Patent ID: 9593700
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: F01D,F05D,F16B,F16L,G02B

Claim:
1. A self-locking plug, comprising: a body component; a flexible beam finger component disposed about the body component and including a plurality of axially-oriented flexible beam fingers; a tab sleeve component including one or more downward extending tabs; an annular detent ring component including a plurality of circumferentially-arranged detents separated by ridges in radial alignment with the plurality of flexible beam fingers; and a wave spring disposed between the tab sleeve component and the annular detent ring component for providing a biasing force to urge the tab sleeve component in a direction of a central, longitudinal axis, A, of the self-locking plug, wherein the plurality of flexible beam fingers travel across the plurality of detents to cause elastic deformation of the flexible beam fingers when the body component is rotated about the central, longitudinal axis, A, of the self-locking plug, and wherein the body component includes a flange, and wherein the flexible beam finger component includes a flange radially inward from the flexible fingers, and wherein the flange of the body component and the flange of the flexible beam finger component engage each other when the self-locking plug is assembled.