Patent ID: 7059639

Claim:
A hood latch cable retaining system for a vehicle, comprising: a control cable comprising a sheath, a cable wire, and a snap-fit fastener; a latch support structure having a cable mounting cavity, the mounting cavity having an opening contiguous to an outside edge of the latch support, said opening being laterally engageable and shaped to receive and captively retain said snap-fit fastener when engaged with the mounting cavity; and a stationary retainer member connected to and extending from the latch support structure, the retainer member having a flange with a retaining cavity contiguous to an edge and spaced apart from and oriented substantially parallel to said latch support structure and positioned such that the retaining cavity of the flange is mounted in opposition to the opening of the mounting cavity, effective to restrain the control cable from substantially transverse movement during a frontal vehicle impact, thus maintaining engagement of the snap-fit fastener within the cable mounting cavity.