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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1983
Tetsushi Hiramitsu, Kasugai, JP;
Hiroshi Sugita, Ichinomiya, JP;
Satoshi Ono, Inazawa, JP;
Zenzaburo Murase, Konan, JP;
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Nishikasugai, JP;
Abstract
A steering wheel of the stationary pad type includes a steering shaft carrying thereon a boss plate, a first sun gear secured to a column and a second sun gear secured to a pad. At least one planetary shaft is rotatably supported on the boss plate, and has one end on which a first planetary gear meshing with the first sun gear is supported, while a second planetary gear meshing with the second sun gear is supported on the other end of the planetary shaft. The first and second planetary gears are normally held by a resilient device in intimate engagement with the first and second sun gears, respectively, but displaceable therefrom in the event foreign matter is caught between the planetary and sun gears.