Patent ID: 9547326
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: F16B,G05G,H02G,Y10T

Claim:
1. An optionally reversible mechanical assembly comprising: a first component, a second component, and a press-button connection, the connection comprising a stud connected to the first component and retaining means connected to the second component, the stud having, in its lengthwise direction, a stock projecting from the first component, extending in an axial direction, and terminating in a radial bulge, and the retaining means comprising a housing sized to receive the stud that is selectively introduced therein in the axial direction and two elastic locks, each elastic lock being disposed in the housing, mobile transversely to the axial direction, and spring-loaded toward a rest position in which this elastic lock leaves in the housing a passage narrower than the overall size of the radial bulge, the thickness of the second component extending in the axial direction, the thickness being defined as the shortest dimension of the second component, this second component being produced in an elastically flexible self-supporting material, the housing being formed by a bore in the second component in the direction of its thickness, and each elastic lock being essentially formed by an elastically flexible lug formed within the thickness of the second component, delimited at the periphery of the housing by a first edge, and having a degree of radial play of non-zero amplitude, wherein the first edge of each lug includes a counter bore, wherein the second component has a corresponding radial clearance opening for each lug produced within the thickness of this second component, each lug having a second edge which delimits it from the corresponding opening, each lug extending between its first and second edges; wherein the two elastically flexible lugs at least partly surround the housing, said two elastically flexible lugs each having a free end, defining a head, and a fixed end, defining a tail, the fixed end of each lug being fixed to the second component and extending from opposing sides of the radial clearance opening such that the lugs are disposed in a head-to-tail configuration around the housing, wherein the head of one lug is aligned across from the tail of the other lug and the tail of the one lug is aligned across from the head of the other lug, so as to form a clamp.