Patent ID: 9671755
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: F16B,G04B,Y10T

Claim:
1. An assembly system comprising: a member made of at least a first material including a staff and a shoulder, the staff of the member being received in the aperture of a part made of a second material, wherein the assembly system includes a locking element made of a third material arranged to elastically attach the part between the shoulder of said member and the locking element, and wherein the locking element is a washer whose internal wall radially grips the staff of said member and, after the washer is moved to contact the part in order to secure the member-part-locking element assembly, the washer is elastically deformed to exert an axial force to the shoulder of said member that is larger along peripheral portions of the washer than at radially inward portions of the washer, and wherein the second material is silicon-based.