Patent ID: 8572805

Claim:
A grommet for fixing an object along a groove portion of a channel material with lips, comprising: a base leg portion adapted to be disposed inside the groove portion; and a flange portion extending outwardly from the base leg portion, adapted to be disposed outside the groove portion, wherein the base leg portion comprises elastic leg pieces to elastically protrude outwardly, said elastic leg pieces being arranged such that the elastic leg pieces are bent inwardly by being pressed by the lip when inserted into the groove portion, and restored to an original state inside the groove portion after passing through a space between the lips so as to sandwich the lip between the elastic leg pieces and the flange portion outside of the groove portion, and wherein at least one of the base leg portion and the flange portion includes a locking device for receiving the object or a holding device of the object, wherein the base leg portion includes bulging portions, each being disposed on a side with each of the elastic leg pieces to bulge outwardly, and wherein a space between outer surfaces of the bulging portions is configured to be larger than the space between the lips and less than a distance between outer surfaces of the elastic leg pieces.