Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Special application – Steering wheel – shaft or column mounted
Patent
1983-08-30
1985-10-15
Tolin, G. P.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Special application
Steering wheel, shaft or column mounted
310232, 339 3S, H01H 900
Patent
active
045476365
ABSTRACT:
In a slip ring suitable for appliance to a steering system of a vehicle a plurality of contacts arranged axially have spacers among them and flexible contacts are in elastic contact with the respective plurality of contacts. Accordingly, the flexible contacts are relatively rotated to the plurality of contacts at a time of the rotation of a steering wheel of the vehicle while the plurality of contacts and the flexible contacts are kept in a conductive condition therebetween, so that many switches can be mounted on the steering wheel.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1219247 (1917-03-01), Carmichael
patent: 1480659 (1924-01-01), Blackburn
patent: 1699392 (1929-01-01), Fisher
Ichikawa Takahumi
Kubota Kazuhisa
Mizuno Shigeo
Brandt Jr. George J.
Ginsburg Morris
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
Tolin G. P.
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