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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:
Jul. 08, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Nishikasugai, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ; B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7448 / ; 74409 ; 74492 ; 74552 ; 74802 ; 200 6154 ; 384428 ; 403331 ;
Abstract
A steering wheel includes a steering shaft, column and pad sun gears mounted on the steering shaft for rotation relative thereto, a boss plate mounted on the steering shaft between the sun gears and rotatable in unison with the steering shaft, at least one bearing mounted on the boss plate and movable toward and away from a center of the boss plate, a planet shaft rotatably supported by the bearing, and column and pad planet gears mounted on opposite ends of the planet shaft and held in mesh with the column and pad sun gears, respectively, the planet gears having inner side surfaces rotatably held in contact with opposite outer side surfaces of the bearing.