A device for compensating for tolerances between two components to be connected to one another is provided. The device may have at least one base member, a compensating member which is in thread engagement with the base member. The compensating member can be moved from a starting position into a compensating position by rotating relative to the base member. The device may also have a spacer member that may be arranged on the base member.

A device for compensating for tolerances between two components to be connected to one another is provided. The device may have at least one base member, a compensating member which is in thread engagement with the base member. The compensating member can be moved from a starting position into a compensating position by rotating relative to the base member. The device may also have a spacer member that may be arranged on the base member.

An automobile license plate attachment device includes a wheel part that includes a slot located between two ridges at an outer circumference of the wheel part. A fastener attaches the wheel part over a license plate. An externally threaded structure is shaped to fit over and cover the wheel part when the wheel part is attached over the license plate. The externally threaded structure includes at least one screw hole into which a headless socket screw can be attached to extend into the slot of the wheel part. The headless socket screw holds the externally threaded structure to the license plate. An internally threaded structure with threads matched allows screwing the internally threaded structure on the externally threaded structure. The externally threaded structure includes a slot into which a tool may be placed to prevent the externally threaded structure from spinning around the wheel part when the internally threaded structure is screwed on and off the externally threaded structure.

The invention relates to a packaging for transporting and/or storing radioactive materials, comprising a packaging body extending along a longitudinal direction, and further including at least one shock-absorbing cover mounted on one of both longitudinally opposite ends of the packaging body, the absorbing cover comprising attaching portions (44) on said packaging body, each attaching portion defining a clearing hole (58) through which an element (24) screwed in the packaging body passes. According to the invention, the attaching portion (44) has a deformable area (54) which, in the case of an outer bias on the absorbing cover leading to a contact strain between the screwed element (24) and the clearing hole (58), is designed to plastically deform.

A sealing rubber is integrally molded to an outer peripheral face and a lower face of a flange portion of a collar, and a protruding portion is continuously formed along the circumferential direction around a through-hole in an upper face of a resin member.

A steering apparatus includes, at a gear housing, a rack bar containing portion movably containing a rack bar configured to turn a turning target wheel and made from a metallic material, and an engagement protrusion portion provided between a bracket portion and a frame of a vehicle. The bracket portion is provided at the rack bar containing portion. The bracket portion is made from a metallic material. The bracket portion includes a cylindrical portion. The bracket portion is coupled with the frame of the vehicle made from a metallic material. The engagement protrusion portion is made from a metallic material having a higher degree of hardness than the metallic material of the bracket portion and the metallic material of the frame of the vehicle, and protrudes toward a vehicle frame side on which the frame of the vehicle is located. The engagement protrusion portion abuts against a plastically deformable portion of the frame of the vehicle with the bracket portion and the frame of the vehicle coupled with each other with use of a coupling member.

A sealing wedge-lock washer assembly usable in a hygienic, secure fastening system. A wedge-lock washer assembly comprises two wedge-lock components—one of which is a sealing wedge-lock washer having a wedge-lock cam and a sealing material bonded to its outer rim. The other component is a standard wedge-lock washer or a bolt whose head has a wedge-lock cam that engages the complementary cam on the sealing wedge-lock washer. The resulting sealing wedge-lock washer assembly locks a bolt in a secure joint that is hygienically sealed from the intrusion of contaminants by the sealing material.

A fixing device for fixing of two bodies to each other, for example a panel to a wall or two panels to each other, includes a male element having a support base and an engaging element, the support base having a rear surface for leaning onto one of the two bodies to be connected and a front surface from which the engaging element protrudes; and a female element having a support base with a rear surface for leaning and fixing onto the other body and a receiving channel for receiving the engaging element of the male element so that the engaging element, when inserted into the receiving channel, snaps inside it detachably, thus enabling the releasable coupling of the two bodies. The fixing device is configured for selecting two or more different distances along the axis defined by the rear surfaces of the male and female elements when coupled.

A replacement for cylindrical dowel nuts is provided and is a hollow cylindrical nut with a threaded hole on top and an unthreaded hole at the bottom which is for the threaded shank to enter. This hollow dowel nut elastically compresses during tightening to act like a lock-washer to prevent loosening. Several solutions are provided to make the top of the nut thicker to fit more thread coils than what wall thickness would otherwise permit. To improve loosening prevention further and also provide overtightening prevention a hollow nut with flatter bottom and a narrow gap bisecting the lower hole are used which during tightening cause right and left edges of said gap to be pushed towards the bolt strongly gripping it which prevents overtightening and loosening. “C” shaped nuts also provided which cause misalignment and jamming in the thread when compressed thereby also preventing loosening and overtightening.

A fiber-reinforced resin member is provided in which a non-conductive sleeve and first and second non-conductive sheets are disposed between a metal fastening member and CFRP laminate, electrical continuity between the metal fastening member and the CFRP laminate is cut off, and corrosion of the metal fastening member due to galvanic corrosion is prevented. A first annular space is formed between a first flange portion of a first member and the first non-conductive sheet, a second annular space is formed between a second flange portion of a second member and the second non-conductive sheet. Therefore, even if frayed carbon fiber sticks out from a gap between the non-conductive sleeve and the first and second non-conductive sheets, due to the first and second annular spaces being formed therein, it is possible to prevent the sticking-out carbon fiber from contacting the first and second members and providing electrical continuity.