Tiltable steering shaft assembly for automotive vehicles

Details Tiltable steering shaft assembly for automotive vehicles Tiltable steering shaft assembly for automotive vehicles

1984-03-21

1985-09-03

Schwartz, Larry I.

Machine element or mechanism

Control lever and linkage systems

Hand operated

74540, 280775, B62D 118

Patent

active

045384770

ABSTRACT:
A fastening device for a tiltable steering shaft assembly of the type in which, when shifted into a remote position upwardly from a pre-selected angular position, the steering wheel is automatically returned to the pre-selected angular position and locked at the same position only by depression of the steering wheel. The fastening device comprises a first manual lever arranged to release the fastening device for permitting upward movement of the steering wheel to the remote position, and a second manual lever arranged to readjust the pre-selected angular position of the steering wheel in accordance with a user's physique, in which the first manual lever is cooperable with the second manual lever in operation of the latter to carry out readjustment of the pre-selected angular position of the steering wheel in a simple manner. The fastening device further includes a mechanism for avoiding unexpected trouble caused by an error in operation of the second manual lever.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4102218 (1978-07-01), Naka et al.

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