Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-11
2010-06-22
Dickson, Paul N. (Department: 3616)
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
C280S784000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07740278
ABSTRACT:
A steering gearbox mounting structure having an intermediate bracket mounts a steering gearbox for steering wheels of a vehicle on a subframe of the vehicle. The intermediate bracket has a breakable portion which breaks when a force greater than a predetermined force is applied to the breakable portion to provide an impact absorbing stroke of an engine of the vehicle. The breakable portion may have a thin portion such as a plate or a recess portion and is more breakable in the traveling direction than the width direction. First and second intermediate brackets may be used which include first and second kinds of breakable portions that are breakable in different modes, respectively.
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Kakuta Tsutomu
Nagata Koji
Onoda Kazuhito
Tsutsui Yasuhiro
Yoshida Hiroyuki
Blackman William D.
Carrier Joseph P.
Carrier Blackman & Associates P.C.
Dickson Paul N.
Freedman Laura
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