Steering wheel assembly

Details Steering wheel assembly Steering wheel assembly

1985-01-14

1986-12-02

Staab, Lawrence

Machine element or mechanism

Control lever and linkage systems

Multiple controlling elements for single controlled element

74498, 74552, 200 6154, G05G 1100

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046255788

ABSTRACT:
An automotive steering wheel assembly has a hub pad kept stationary during rotation of a steering wheel. The hub pad is attached to an upper annular member rotatable about a hub and coaxial to a non-rotatable lower annular member axially spaced from the upper member. A carrier is fixed to the hub and supports a planet gear for rotation about its own axis and for revolution about the axis of the hub in meshing engagement with internal gear teeth formed on the upper and lower members so that rotation of the hub causes the planet gear to revolve about the hub axis to keep the upper member and thus the hub pad apparently stationary. The planet gear is formed thereon with an annular flange having opposite end faces in slidable engagement with opposed faces of the upper and lower members to prevent the upper member from being distorted by the force exerted by a driver to the hub pad.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3910597 (1975-10-01), Seko
patent: 4485371 (1984-11-01), Yamada et al.

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