US 12,434,619 B2
Bracket attachment structure
Takehiro Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP); Yuki Sasanuma, Tokyo (JP); Takato Watanabe, Tokyo (JP); and Keishi Shiomi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP); and HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/785,907.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-123023 (JP), filed on Jul. 28, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0033554 A1, Jan. 30, 2025
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01) [G01S 7/027 (2021.05)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bracket attachment structure that detachably attaches a bracket to an outer lens that is attached to a lamp housing and constitutes a lamp chamber in which a lamp unit is disposed between the outer lens and the lamp housing, wherein
the outer lens includes a recessed part recessed toward the lamp housing side,
the bracket includes: a bracket main body including a front surface to which a radar unit is detachably attached and a rear surface on a side opposite to a the front surface, the bracket main body being disposed in the recessed part in a state where the rear surface and a bottom surface of the recessed part face each other; an extension part extending from an other end side on a side opposite to one end side of the bracket main body to an outside of the recessed part, and detachably fixed to an attachment partner; and at least one spring part arranged between the rear surface of the bracket main body and the bottom surface of the recessed part,
an engaged part is provided in one of an inner wall of the recessed part and the one end side of the bracket main body,
an engaging part that engages with the engaged part is provided in the other of the inner wall of the recessed part and the one end side of the bracket main body,
the spring part is elastically deformed by being biased toward the bracket main body by the bottom surface of the recessed part in a state where the engaging part is engaged with the engaged part and the extension part is detachably fixed to the attachment partner, and
the engaging part is engaged with the engaged part by a reaction force of the elastically deformed spring part.