Patent ID: 6910724
Filing Date: 2005-06-28
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A footrest plate having a footrest side and a rear side opposite to said footrest side, said rear side being provided with clips to be fixedly received in corresponding mounting holes formed in a workpiece wherein said clips are composed of a pair of first and second clips to be insertably received into a pair of corresponding first and second mounting holes formed in said workpiece with leaving a certain distance therebetween, each of said first and second clips having a rectangular cross-sectional insertion portion insertable into the corresponding one of said first and second mounting holes, each of which are formed in a rectangular shape; the rectangular cross-sectional insertion portion of said first clip includes a pair of longitudinal sides each of which extends in a longitudinal direction of said footrest plate and has a length shorter than that of each longitudinal side of said first mounting hole by a first clearance, and a pair of lateral sides each of which extends in a lateral direction perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of said footrest plate and has a length substantially equal to or slightly shorter than that of each lateral side of said first mounting hole; and the rectangular cross-sectional insertion portion of said second clip includes a pair of longitudinal sides each of which extends in said longitudinal direction and has a length substantially equal to or slightly shorter than that of each longitudinal side of said second mounting hole, and a pair of lateral sides each of which extends in said lateral direction and has a length shorter than that of each lateral side of said second mounting hole by a second clearance.