Steering wheel for motor vehicle

Details Steering wheel for motor vehicle Steering wheel for motor vehicle

1995-11-24

1997-04-08

Marmor, Charles A.

Machine element or mechanism

Control lever and linkage systems

Elements

403 7, 403378, B62D 104, G05G 110

Patent

active

056177631

ABSTRACT:
A motor vehicle steering wheel including a hub, a longitudinal bore in the hub which receives a distal end of a steering shaft, a lateral bore in the hub which intersects the longitudinal bore, a cross bolt, and a plastic sleeve on a plastic shroud on the steering wheel which secures the cross bolt in a temporary position to the steering wheel. The plastic sleeve resiliently grips a screw-threaded barrel of the cross bolt and a pilot of the cross bolt partially obstructs the longitudinal bore in hub. The distal end of the steering shaft cams aside the pilot when the distal end is inserted in the longitudinal bore. The connection of the plastic sleeve to the shroud snaps the pilot of the cross bolt into a lateral notch in the distal end of the steering shaft to signal complete penetration of the distal end into the longitudinal bore in the hub. When the cross bolt is thereafter expelled from the plastic sleeve and screwed into the lateral bore in the hub, the plastic sleeve traps the cross bolt in the lateral bore to prevent unintended dislodgment of the cross bolt from the hub.

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