US 12,252,080 B2
Electronic control component bracket
Junya Ukai, Okazaki (JP); Makoto Kato, Okazaki (JP); and Kazunori Takata, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to DAIWA KASEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD., Okazaki (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by DAIWA KASEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD., Okazaki (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/295,479.
Application 18/295,479 is a continuation of application No. 16/701,962, filed on Dec. 3, 2019, granted, now 11,654,843.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-238092 (JP), filed on Dec. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242053 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 16/023 (2006.01); F16B 2/22 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 16/0231 (2013.01) [F16B 2/22 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic control component bracket for assembling an electronic control component to a vehicle body side, the electronic control component bracket comprising:
a bottom portion that is to be disposed on a lower surface side of the electronic control component, and on which a plurality of elastic pieces configured to press the lower surface upward are provided; and
abutting stop portions configured to abut, from above, against the electronic control component that is pressed upward, wherein,
the bottom portion is provided with a pair of side wall portions that stand upward so as to cover both lateral sides of the bottom portion, in addition to the plurality of elastic pieces, and each of the pair of side wall portions is an elastic wall portion whose upper end sides of both ends are elastically deformable independently outward in an opposing direction of the side wall portion, the abutting stop portions are formed so as to protrude inward in the opposing direction from the upper end sides of the side wall portions, and have, at tops thereof, inclined surfaces extending downward toward an inner side in the opposing direction, and
when the electronic control component is assembled, the electronic control component presses the side wall portions apart, outward in the opposing direction of the side wall portions by pressing the inclined surfaces downward, and enters a space between the opposing side wall portions,
the plurality of elastic pieces are all the same, all in plate width, plate thickness, plate length, and plate shape, and
the electronic control component is clamped between the plurality of elastic pieces and the abutting stop portions so that relative vibration in a vertical direction is not restricted with respect to the electronic control component bracket for the electronic control component in an assembled state, and
pressing positions of the plurality of elastic pieces at which the elastic pieces press the lower surface of the electronic control component are arranged such that, when projected in a vertical direction relative to a plane orthogonal to the vertical direction, the plurality of elastic pieces do not have rotational symmetry and line symmetry on the plane so that support for the electronic control component provided by the plurality of elastic pieces are made imbalanced.