Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kozo Ohno

Keiji Suzuki

Kunihiko Eto

Keiichi Nakamura

Kiyotaka Kato

Susumu Oda

Junichi Miyagi

Fumio Ukai

Hidemi Masuda

Akira Ohnishi

A four-wheel steering system for an automotive vehicle in which a cable linkage is adapted to operatively interconnect front and rear wheel steering mechanisms. The cable linkage is provided with a displacement transmitting mechanism which includes an input element operatively connected to a front lateral bar in the front wheel steering mechanism through the cable linkage, an output element operatively connected to the rear wheel steering mechanism, and a spring element disposed between the input and output elements to transmit displacement of the input element to the output element without any deflection in a condition where the output element is freely movable and to absorb displacement of the input element in a condition where the output element is restrained by an excessive load applied thereto from the rear wheel steering mechanism.

Four-wheel steering system for automotive vehicles

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Okazaki, Japan

Kozo Ohno