Patent ID: 8118337
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: B60R,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An engaging and fixing structure, comprising: a radiator grill having a grill-side seizing unit and elastically deformable tongue pieces, the elastically deformable tongue pieces having a first group of first projections and a second group of first projections; and a bumper having a plate, the plate having a bumper-side seizing unit, the plate having a third group of second projections and a fourth group of second projections, wherein the radiator grill is configured to be engaged with and fixed to the bumper by engaging the grill-side seizing unit with the bumper-side seizing unit and keeping the elastically deformable tongue pieces in contact with the third and fourth groups of the second projections by having the first group of the first projections in engagement with the third group of the second projections and the second group of the first projections in spaced relationship with the fourth group of the second projections, wherein the third group of the second projections and the first group of the first projections have inclining surfaces configured to allow the third group of the second projections to lift the first group of the first projections such that the elastically deformable tongue pieces having the first group of the first projections are displaced upward relative to the third group of the second projections during movement of the bumper in a predetermined direction to remove the bumper-side seizing unit from the grill-side seizing unit until the fourth group of the second projections come into engagement with the second group of the first projections, wherein the fourth group of the second projections and the second group of the first projections have inclining surfaces configured to allow the fourth group of the second projections to lift the second group of the first projections such that the elastically deformable tongue pieces having the second group of the first projections are displaced upward relative to the fourth group of the second projections during movement of the bumper in the predetermined direction after the fourth group of the second projections have come into engagement with the second group of the first projections.