US 12,122,276 B2
Skin locking clip
Yuhei Chinomi, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuya Aoki, Tochigi (JP); Kenta Kikuchi, Tochigi (JP); and Kei Okuma, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to NIFCO INC., Kanagawa (JP); and TS TECH CO., LTD., Saitama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/909,205
Filed by NIFCO INC., Yokosuka (JP); and TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/008446
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 2, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/177405, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-038508 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2020; and application No. 2020-038510 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0085792 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B60N 2/58 (2006.01); A47C 7/74 (2006.01); B60N 2/56 (2006.01); B60N 2/60 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/5825 (2013.01) [A47C 7/744 (2013.01); B60N 2/5621 (2013.01); B60N 2/6027 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A skin locking clip embedded in a groove of a pad for fixing a locked portion of a skin material that covers at least a portion of the pad, the groove extending in a prescribed direction with a prescribed width and depth, the skin locking clip comprising:
a base plate extending along the prescribed direction and a width direction of the groove and embedded in the pad at least at an end in the width direction;
a pair of locking pieces erected on the base plate so as to be opposed to each other in the width direction for locking the locked portion and each including a locking claw on a side where the locking pieces are opposed to each other; and
an overhanging piece including an overhanging portion opposed to the base plate on an outside of at least one of the locking pieces in the width direction or extending more outward than an edge of the base plate in the width direction,
wherein the overhanging piece includes an erected portion erected on the base plate, and the overhanging portion extends outward in the width direction of the base plate from a tip side of the erected portion,
wherein the erected portion includes at least one pair of pillars extending from the base plate at an interval in the prescribed direction, and an opening is formed between the pillars,
wherein the overhanging piece further includes a connection body connecting an intermediate portion of the overhanging portion in the prescribed direction and the base plate.