Machine element or mechanism – Control lever and linkage systems – Hand operated
Patent
1986-06-06
1989-01-10
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Machine element or mechanism
Control lever and linkage systems
Hand operated
74484R, 74552, 200 6154, B62D 116
Patent
active
047964820
ABSTRACT:
The steering wheel comprises a column section, a steering shaft passing through the column section, a boss portion secured to the top of the steering shaft, a boss plate secured on the boss portion, a pad section, a plurality of sun gears of the helical gear type, a plurality of planetary shafts, a plurality of pairs of planetary gears of the helical gear type attached to either end portion each of the respective planetary shafts and gearing with the corresponding sun gears, and a resilient member for urging the planetary gears of a pair mounted on at least one of the plural planetary shafts. At least one of the paired planetary gears is attached movably in the longitudinal direction of the axis of that planetary shaft, so that these planetary gears approach mutually or separate from each other in the axial direction of the respective planetary shaft.
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Hiramitsu Tetsushi
Hirano Atsuo
Murase Zenzaburo
Ono Satoshi
Anderson Gerald A.
Dorner Kenneth J.
Toyoda Gosei Co,., Ltd.
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