Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Akio Sugiki

Masanobu Ishikawa

Koji Aoki

Koichi Hirota

Norikazu Kobayashi

Takaya Aiyama

Kazuyoshi Mori

Haruhiko Tanahashi

Kiyokatsu Miura

Nobuhiro Yoshida

A door latch operation device for vehicle which can link a mechanical operation member and a latch mechanism by an operation of a mechanical identification operation member. The door latch operation device includes a lift lever linked to the latch mechanism, an inside lever linked to the mechanical operation member, and an open link provided between the lift lever and the inside lever. The open link is adapted to be operatively connected to the mechanical operation member and the mechanical identification operation member to move the open link and cause the open link to engage the lift lever. The open link is also rotatable to be engaged with and disengaged from the inside lever. A guiding mechanism movably and rotatably guides the open link.

Door latch operation device for vehicle

A driving appratus which includes a driving shaft which is linked to a driving member, a driven shaft which is connected with the driving shaft and which is linked to a driven member, a joint member which connects the driving shaft with the driven shaft so that a torque is transmitted from the driving shaft to the driven shaft while absorbing the eccentricity between both shafts and an urging member which is disposed to the joint member and which urges the joint member in the axial and rotational direction in regard to the both shafts. According to this improved driving appratus, the joint member rotates under the condition which is urged by the urging member in the axial and rotational direction in regard to the driving shaft and the driven shaft and transmitts the torque from the driving shaft to the driven shaft. Therefore, it is able to effectively absorb the vibration between the driving shaft and the driven shaft by the urging member and therefore it is able to prevent the generation of the uncomfortable noise and so on due to the vibration.

Driving apparatus having a joint member around which is wound an urging

A steering system for a vehicle including a fixed body secured to the body of the vehicle, a fixed shaft rotatably supported by the fixed bracket, a movable bracket connected for relative axial movement to the fixed bracket, a movable shaft rotatably supported by the movable bracket and connected to the shaft so as to be axially movable relative to the fixed shaft and rotatable as one unit with the fixed shaft, a driving mechanism disposed on the fixed bracket and connected to move the movable bracket and the movable shaft axially relative to both the fixed bracket and the fixed shaft, and a control mechanism for controlling the level of the frictional force acting between the fixed bracket and the movable bracket. The control mechanism normally maintains the frictional force at a level to ensure rigidity between the fixed and movable brackets, but is operable, upon actuation of the driving mechanism, to reduce the frictional force and thereby decrease resistance to relative axial movement of the fixed and movable brackets.

Steering system

Growing community of inventors

Kariya, Japan

Akio Sugiki