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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:
Sep. 23, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1996
William David Cymbal, Freeland, MI (US);
Donald Anthony Niedzielski, Bay City, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A rotary telescopeable shaft particularly suited for use as an intermediate steering shaft of a motor vehicle including a cylindrical tubular shaft having a flat side, a cylindrical solid shaft slidably telescoped inside of the tubular shaft having a flat side facing the flat side on the tubular shaft and coupling the shafts for unitary rotation, and a unitized resilient insert concealed in a notch in the solid shaft. The notch has a pair of lateral ramps which converge with the flat side of the tubular shaft and a longitudinal ramp which converges with a cylindrical segment of the tubular shaft. The unitized resilient insert consists of a slider on each lateral ramp, a slider on the longitudinal ramp, and a spring wedging the sliders between the lateral ramps and the flat side of the tubular shaft to eliminate runnning clearance perpendicular to the flat side and between the longitudinal ramp and the cylindrical segment of the tubular shaft to eliminate running clearance parallel to the flat side.
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