Verriegelungs- und Blockierungsmechanismus mit Feder

摘要

A locking mechanism (10) is disclosed which includes a garter-type canted-coil spring (16) having elliptical coils with a coil height (CH) and a coil width (CW) measured, respectively, along a minor (20) and a major axis (18) of the elliptical coils for holding and locking a first (12) and second member (14) to one another. The first member (12) includes a first groove (24) for retaining the spring (16) with the first groove (24) having a depth (D1) less than the coil width (CW) in order that a portion of each coil extends outwardly from the first groove (24). The second member (14) includes a second groove (34) for accepting the extended portion (30) of each coil (16) and for loading the coils (16) generally along the major axis (18) thereof, said first (12) and second members (14) being locked to one another when the coils (16) are disposed within and loaded by the first (24) and second (34) grooves.