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Integral attachment using snap‐fit features: a key to assembly automation. Part 4 ‐ selection of locking features

Robert W. Messler Jr (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA)
Suat Genc (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA)
Gary A. Gabriele (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA)

Assembly Automation

ISSN: 0144-5154

Article publication date: 1 December 1997

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Abstract

Suggests that, without question, while every step in a systematic approach to the design of parts for assembly using integral snap‐fit features is important, none is more important than selecting locking features. After all, it is these features that hold the assembly together. While quite different in appearance and details of their operation, all integral locking features comprise a latch and a catch component to create a locking pair. Proper, no less optimum, function requires that such locking pairs be selected using a systematic approach. Presents that approach as a six‐step methodology, but first, defines and describes latch and catch components, bringing order to their apparent boundless variety. Demonstrates the utility of the methodology with a real‐life case study.

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Messler, R.W., Genc, S. and Gabriele, G.A. (1997), "Integral attachment using snap‐fit features: a key to assembly automation. Part 4 ‐ selection of locking features", Assembly Automation, Vol. 17 No. 4, pp. 315-328. https://doi.org/10.1108/01445159710191606

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