Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.

Kuninobu Uchida

Kenji Nemoto

Nagatoshi Murata

Teruo Yoshioka

Iwao Maruyama

Keiichiro Gunji

Shiro Naito

Kunio Nokajima

Yuzo Abe

Mitsuo Kaneko

Toshio Miyazawa

Akimichi Asai

Masao Miyata

Toshio Stou

Takehiro Minagawa

A method of assembling a steering assembly having a socket connected to a steering shaft via a steering joint which socket is to be serration-fitted to an input shaft of a gearbox which is mounted on a suspension assembly. The phase of the socket is measured at the time when a steering wheel is aligned in a neutral posture while the steering assembly is maintained in the same articulated condition as when the steering assembly is assembled to a car body and while the steering wheel is serration-fitted to the steering shaft of the steering assembly. The phase of the input shaft is adjusted such that the input shaft can be serration-fitted into the socket in the phase measured in the preceding step. The adjustment is performed by rotating the input shaft within an angular range corresponding to one half pitch of the serrations of the input shaft in either direction from a neutral posture in which the steering angles to the right and to the left are equal. The alignment of the right and the left wheels is adjusted to a condition where the car can run straight while the input shaft is maintained in the adjusted phase. A guide member which determines the phase of the socket relative to the input shaft is engaged with the input shaft in such a phase relationship that the socket becomes substantially equal in phase to the measured phase when the input shaft is in the adjusted phase. The socket of the steering assembly is serration-fitted to the input shaft of the suspension assembly by guiding the socket with the guide member.

Method of serration-fitting assembling steering assembly

The boss of a steering wheel is serrated by setting the steering wheel on a serrating broaching machine, inserting a serrating broach into a through hole defined in the boss of the steering wheel, and then pulling the serrating broach with a broach chuck gripping the serrating broach to cut serrations on an inner surface of the through hole in the boss. The steering wheel is positioned nonrotatably in a prescribed angular orientation on the broaching machine while placing the boss on a holder of the broaching machine. Then, the serrating broach is inserted through the through hole in the boss into the holder of the broaching machine while holding the serrating broach in a prescribed angular orientation around the axis thereof with respect to the broach chuck. Finally, the serrating broach is pulled from the boss with the broach chuck gripping the serrating broach to cut serrations on the inner surface of the boss.

Method of and apparatus for serrating a steering wheel

Alignment adjustment apparatus for holding the subsidiary frame of a vehicle suspension sub-assembly and the suspension components in the same position they would assume when attached to and supporting a vehicle body includes sensors for detecting the relative position of wheel mounting members and knuckle arms thereby permitting alignment adjustment relative to previously measured locations of attaching means on a vehicle body to which the suspension sub-assembly is to be attached.

Process for adjusting alignment of a suspension sub-assembly

The present invention is directed to an apparatus for assembling a uniform-speed joint having an inner rotary body and an outer rotary body which transmits a rotational force from one to the other through a plurality of small spheres disposed in receiving holes in the outer peripheral surface of the inner rotary body. The apparatus comprises a carrying member for carrying the outer rotary bodies such that the inner surface of the rotary body is oriented upward and guide members, including a first guide wall, a second guide wall and a pusher for pushing an inner rotary body along the first guide wall until it contacts the second guide wall. The apparatus also comprises a first press fitting member for press fitting two small spheres into diametrically opposed receiving holes in the inner body and clamping members for clamping the inner rotary body, orienting the axis of the inner rotary member perpendicular to the axis of said outer rotary member on the carrying member and inserting the inner rotary member into the outer rotary member. Correcting members are provided for orienting the inner rotary body with respect to the outer rotary body such that the axis of the inner rotary body coincides with the axis of the outer rotary body. The apparatus further comprises swing members for rotating the inner rotary body in the outer rotary body such that at least one of the receiving holes is above the top edge of the outer rotary body and second press fitting members for pressing the small spheres into the receiving holes above the top edge of the outer rotary body.

Automatic assembling apparatus for uniform-speed joint

Therein is disclosed a method for assembling a uniform-speed joint having an inner rotary body and an outer rotary body which transmits a rotational force from one to the other through a plurality of small spheres in receiving holes on the disposed outer peripheral surface of said inner rotary body and including a pair of small spheres diametrically facing each other where the intersecting angle between the rotation axes of said inner rotary body and said outer rotary body is variable and the rotational speed is not changed. The method comprising the steps of:

Method of assembling uniform-speed joint

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Sayama, Japan

Kuninobu Uchida