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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1996
Hidehiro Ichikawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hiraku Tanaka, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Akihisa Kawamura, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A relay apparatus between relative rotary members comprises a first rotator (a rotator) 11 having an inner cylindrical portion, a second rotator (a fixed body) having an outer cylindrical portion for surrounding the inner cylindrical portion at a predetermined interval, and relatively rotating to the inner cylindrical portion, a flexible flat cable (a cable) coiled along an inside of a circular space K between the inner cylindrical portion and the outer cylindrical portion, an upper cover having an aperture at a center portion, installed in the outer cylindrical portion in order to cover an upper side of the circular space, and an outer leading cover installed on the upper cover for rotating flexibly, and coupled to the first rotator through the aperture for leading the flexible flat cable outward. The outer leading cover has a circular rib A connected to the upper cover on its outer circumferential portion, whose diameter of an outer circumference is shorter than that of the upper cover.