Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhiro Kawashima

Shigeo Kurita

Kanji Kita

Takeji Shino

Nobuo Shimizu

Takashi Itoh

Junichi Suto

Tohru Mabuchi

Tripod joints, each of which includes revolvable rollers to be directly fitted to outer circumferential surfaces of spider shafts, are provided respectively at both ends of an input-side shaft to which slave driving force is transmitted. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent a slave driving system from transmission of unnecessary torque, and obtain a slave driving force-transmitting mechanism which is compact and light in weight, having a structure simplified as compared with those of the conventional technique.

Slave driving force-transmitting mechanism for vehicle

In a slide type universal joint, a slider is slidably fitted around a trunnion of an inner member and a roller, which rolls in a transmission groove of an outer member, is carried rotatably on the slider via a needle bearing, the slider and the roller being coupled together against axial relative displacement by an axial coupling means. This makes the joint simple in structure and reduces frictional resistance.

Slide type universal joint

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Tochigi, Japan

Yasuhiro Kawashima