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Title:
CLIP
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/096372
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Disclosed is a clip wherein a gripper is configured so that a receiving opening of the gripper is projected from the inside of a storage recessed portion of a clip main body at a standby position located on the inlet side of the storage recessed portion, so that the diameter of the receiving opening is increased to a diameter similar to or larger than the diameter of the spherical tip; and the gripper is gradually and elastically deformed as the gripper moves to a gripping position, so that the diameter of the receiving opening is decreased to a diameter smaller than the diameter of the spherical tip at the gripping position. The gripper is configured so that the edge of the receiving opening of the gripper is brought into contact with an output shaft so as to surround the output shaft, and the inner surface of the gripper is brought into surface-contact with the spherical tip at the gripping position.

Inventors:
TACHIIWA TAKEYUKI (JP)
SHIBATA YUJI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2011/051957
Publication Date:
August 11, 2011
Filing Date:
January 31, 2011
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Assignee:
NIFCO INC (JP)
KOITO MFG CO LTD (JP)
TACHIIWA TAKEYUKI (JP)
SHIBATA YUJI (JP)
International Classes:
F21S8/12
Foreign References:
JP2007042289A2007-02-15
JP2003536028A2003-12-02
JP2008144968A2008-06-26
JP2002543342A2002-12-17
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
OGAWA, Toshiharu et al. (JP)
Toshiharu Ogawa (JP)
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