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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1985
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho, Aichi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
200 6154 ; 310232 ; 339 / ;
Abstract
In a slip ring suitable for appliance to a steering system of a vehicle a plurality of contacts arranged axially have spacers among them and flexible contacts are in elastic contact with the respective plurality of contacts. Accordingly, the flexible contacts are relatively rotated to the plurality of contacts at a time of the rotation of a steering wheel of the vehicle while the plurality of contacts and the flexible contacts are kept in a conductive condition therebetween, so that many switches can be mounted on the steering wheel.