| 摘要 |
A compact, highly-reusable, self-locking includes a body component, a flexible beam finger component with a plurality of axially-oriented flexible beam fingers and one or more outwardly extending tabs, an annular detent ring component including a plurality of detents in radial alignment with the plurality of flexible beam fingers, and a biasing component engaging the flange of the flexible beam finger component and the annular detent ring component for providing a biasing force to urge the flexible finger beam component in a direction of a central, longitudinal axis of the self-locking plug. The flexible beam finger component moves relative to the annular detent ring component when the body component is rotated about the central, longitudinal axis, A, of the self-locking plug, thereby causing the plurality of flexible beam fingers to travel across the plurality of detents and cause elastic deformation of the flexible beam fingers. |
| 主权项 |
1. A self-locking plug, comprising:
a body component including a flange; a flexible beam finger component disposed about the body component and including a plurality of axially-oriented flexible beam fingers, a flange radially inward from the flexible beam fingers, and one or more outwardly extending tabs; an annular detent ring component including a plurality of circumferentially-arranged detents separated by ridges in radial alignment with the plurality of flexible beam fingers; and a biasing component engaging the flange of the flexible beam finger component and the annular detent ring component for providing a biasing force to urge the flexible beam finger component in a direction of a central, longitudinal axis, A, of the self-locking plug, wherein the plurality of flexible beam fingers travel across the plurality of detents to cause elastic deformation of the flexible beam fingers when the body component is rotated about the central, longitudinal axis, A, of the self-locking plug, and wherein the flange of the body component engages the flange of the flexible beam finger component when the self-locking plug is assembled. |
