Patent ID: 8661622

Claim:
An assist grip, comprising: a grip body having an elongated configuration with opposite side bases, each opposite side base having a hinge-holding depression; hinges being rotatably held by the hinge-holding depressions; clips holding the hinges, the clips configured to engage with a vehicle body and to fix the hinges on the vehicle body; each hinge-holding depression having opposing side walls that face in a rotary-axis direction of the hinge, each opposing side wall having an inner surface with a bottomed-bearing hole, the bottomed-bearing hole extending into the inner surface but not penetrating through the opposing side wall of the hinge-holding depression; each hinge having a case-holding depression, the case-holding depression having opposing side walls that face in the rotary-axis direction of the hinge, a through hole being provided in one of the opposing side walls and a shaft-shaped protrusion projecting outward from another one of the opposing side walls of the case-holding depression, the shaft-shaped protrusion of each case-holding depression extending coaxially with the through hole, and each hinge is accommodated in each hinge-holding depression by inserting the shaft-shaped protrusion of the case-holding depression into one of the bottomed-bearing holes and by coaxially arranging the through hole with another one of the bottomed-bearing holes in each hinge-holding depression; the case-holding depression of each hinge having a pin that penetrates past the through hole in each hinge-holding depression and into the another one of the bottomed bearing holes in the hinge-holding depression, and each hinge being rotatably arranged within each hinge-holding depression by the shaft-shaped protrusion and the pin of each case-holding depression being rotatably received in the bottomed-bearing holes of the hinge-holding depression; a coil spring being interposed between one hinge of the hinges and the grip body, the coil spring urging the one hinge in a direction for accommodating the one hinge into one of the hinge-holding depressions; one of the one case-holding depressions further comprising a spring case that is held rotatably together with the one hinge containing the coil spring, the spring case having opposing walls and one of the opposing walls faces a front end of the pin of the one hinge; and the coil spring having opposite ends, one of the ends engaging with the spring case and another one of the ends engaging the grip body, and the coil spring being arranged and configured to force the one hinge in a direction for accommodating the one hinge into the one hinge-holding depression.