| CPC F16B 21/08 (2013.01) [F16B 5/0607 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A method of installing a panel on an assembly board of an assembly, the method comprising:
forming one or more flexible shoulder pin modules, the one or more flexible shoulder pin modules including a respective shoulder pin and a respective shaft portion with a flareable bottom wall projecting outward from a shaft bottom surface thereof, the forming including
disposing the flareable bottom wall through an aperture in a stopper panel, the shoulder pin being received through the stopper panel,
disposing the shaft portion of the shoulder pin in each flexible shoulder pin module, before formation, in a through-hole extending from a top surface of a cylindrical body portion to a bottom end of a wall projecting outward from a lower surface of an annular head portion of a barrel, the shaft portion having the flareable bottom wall projecting outward from the shaft bottom surface to surround an opening therein, and
forming a flaring in the flareable bottom wall of the shaft portion, using a punching tool, such that a flared bottom wall is leveled with a stopper bottom surface of the stopper panel;
integrating the one or more flexible shoulder pin modules with the assembly board;
fastening one end of the panel to the assembly board by a screw;
inserting each of the one or more flexible shoulder pin modules into a corresponding hole in the panel; and
pressing each of the one or more flexible shoulder pin modules against the panel until a shoulder portion of the shoulder pin in each of the one or more flexible shoulder pin modules clamps the panel against the top surface of the cylindrical body portion in each of the one or more flexible shoulder pin modules.
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