Patent ID: 8424173
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: B60R,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A spacer clip that is secured to a member being attached to, the member being attached to having a through hole and two sides, the spacer clip being secured by being passed through said through hole and clamping the member being attached to from both sides, comprising: a flange having a front side and an opposite side and being formed larger than said through hole of said member being attached to, that can flushly contact one surface of the member being attached to; a shank having an end part extending a prescribed length from said flange that can be inserted into said through hole; legs extending from the end part of said shank, connected by hinges to said shank end part in order to pivot from an initial attitude of orientation along the axial direction of the shank to a clamping attitude of being substantially parallel to said flange, that can flushly contact the surface of a member being attached to on the opposite side from said flange; and levers extending from root portions of the legs toward tip ends of the legs so that the levers can pivot together with said legs which extend with an interval between the levers and the legs, whereby said member being attached to can be clamped at said through-hole portion; wherein: said legs have leg-side pawls adjacent to said shank end part, which extend to said flange side when the legs are in said clamping attitude; said flange has flange-side pawls for engaging said leg-side pawls and maintaining said legs in said clamping attitude; and wherein: said legs, prior to being inserted into said through hole, are in said initial attitude of orientation along said axial direction, and said levers are in an initial attitude of facing the surface of said member being attached to that is on the flange side; said legs and said levers, as said shank is inserted into said through hole, pivot together at said shank end part as said legs and said levers clamp the through-hole portion of said member being attached to from both sides; said flange-side pawls, when said leg-side pawls come up against said flange-side pawls, flex upward from the roots of said slits; and said leg-side pawls, when said legs are pivoted to said clamping attitude, engage with said flange-side pawls, and the surface of said member being attached to that is on the flange side comes up against said flange; and wherein slits having roots are formed on either side of each of said flange-side pawls.