Patent ID: 9653901
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B60R,F16B,F16L,H02G

Claim:
1. A holding component for a vehicle, the holding component comprising: a fixing portion to which a mounting tool to be mounted to a vehicle body is fixed; and a holding portion for detachably holding a predetermined member, wherein the fixing portion includes a mounting tool housing portion configured to house the mounting tool that has been moved upward through a lower opening, and an elastic portion configured: to have, on an upper-side portion, an engaging claw portion that projects inward in the mounting tool housing portion such that the engaging claw portion is pressed from thereunder by the mounting tool entering so as to be moved upward through the lower opening; to allow the mounting tool to be moved further upward by the elastic portion being elastically deformed by a lower-side portion serving as an originating point due to the engaging claw portion being pressed; and to allow the engaging claw portion to enter an engagement hole portion of the mounting tool by the elastic portion being elastically restored when the mounting tool is moved further upward and the engagement hole portion of the mounting tool reaches a position of the engaging claw portion, to provide a first engaging state in which the engaging claw portion having entered contacts with an inner peripheral upper surface of the engagement hole portion to prevent the mounting tool from being removed downward, and the holding portion includes: an upper holding portion disposed above the predetermined member; a lower holding portion disposed below the predetermined member; an engagement portion provided in the upper holding portion; an engagement receiving portion, provided in the lower holding portion, configured to provide a second engaging state in which the engagement receiving portion engages with the engagement portion to combine the upper holding portion and the lower holding portion with each other; and a pressing portion configured to press the mounting tool in the first engaging state downward under the second engaging state, and hold the engaging claw portion in such a state that the engaging claw portion contacts with the inner peripheral upper surface of the engagement hole portion.