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Drop-in speaker mount
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Inventors: Dault, Robert; Young, Richard;
Assignee: ADAC Plastics, Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI)
Primary Examiner: Gellner; M. L.
Assistant Examiner: Dang; Khanh
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Young, McFarlane & Wood
A mounting structure and methodology for mounting audio speakers in the package shelf of a motor vehicle. The speakers are mounted in a well formed integrally with the package shelf. The well opens at its upper end in the package shelf and defines an annular ledge at its lower end sized to seat the annular flange of the speaker. Resilient spring fingers on the annular wall of the well flex outwardly in response to insertion of the speaker into the well to allow passage of the speaker flange and thereafter, upon seating of the speaker flange on the ledge, flex inwardly to lockingly clamp the speaker flange between the spring fingers and the ledge. A grille structure includes a grille sized to fill the opening in the package shelf and a plurality of fingers extending downwardly from the grille and sized to fit within the well structure. The grille structure is installed with the grille fingers extending downwardly into the well for interlocking engagement with locking tab portions on the spring fingers and for engagement at their lower ends with the upper face of the speaker flange. The grille further includes a plurality of locking fingers which coact with holes in the panel so that, as the fingers of the grille structure interlock with the spring fingers and assume a position in clamping relation to the upper face of the speaker flange, the locking fingers snap into the holes in the panel to lock the grille structure to the panel. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION This invention relates to improved structure and methodology for mounting speakers in the panel of a motor vehicle.
More specifically, this invention relates to a structure and methodology for mounting speakers in the panels of motor vehicles wherein the speakers are quickly and inexpensively mounted in the panel and wherein the mounted speakers are secure and provide excellent sound quality.
The mounting structure of the invention is intended for use in mounting a speaker in a panel of a motor vehicle wherein the speaker includes an annular external flange and a speaker body positioned within the flange.
The invention mounting structure comprises a well structure defined beneath the panel, opening at its upper end in an opening in the panel sized to allow the speaker to pass downwardly therethrough into the well, and defining a ledge at its lower end sized to receive and support the lower face of the speaker flange, and retainer means defined on the well structure proximate the ledge and operative to engage the upper face of the speaker flange and clamp the speaker flange between the retainer means and the ledge.
This arrangement allows the speaker to be readily positioned in the well and simultaneously secured in position within the well.
According to a further feature of the invention, the retainer means comprises resilient fingers, and the resilient fingers are arranged to flex resiliently outwardly in response to movement of the speaker downwardly into the well and flex resiliently inwardly in response to seating of the speaker flange on the ledge.
This arrangement allows the speaker flange to be readily and positively clamped between the resilient fingers and the ledge to securely mount the speaker to the panel.
In one embodiment of the invention, the resilient fingers are formed integrally in an annular wall of the well structure and in another embodiment of the invention the resilient fingers are provided by separate resilient clips secured to an annular wall of the well structure
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