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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:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1998
Hiroshi Sekine, Takasaki, JP;
Hiromichi Komori, Maebashi, JP;
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A temporary connecting device for connecting a steering shaft of a vehicle to a universal joint of a steering mechanism. The device comprises a yoke of a universal joint, a shaft to be connected to the yoke, a bolt and a nut for fixing the shaft to the yoke and a clip for temporarily retaining the shaft in the yoke. The clip is composed of a thin plate member having a support portion fixed to one of the tabs of the yoke and a latching portion positioned in the U-shaped groove in a normal state, the latching portion comprising a cam slant portion which is brought into contact with the shaft when the shaft is inserted into a U-shaped groove from an open side thereof in order to connect the shaft to the yoke so as to retract the latching portion from the U-shaped groove by the elastic deformation thereof to allow the shaft to move into the U-shaped groove, and a latching surface portion to be returned into the U-shaped groove after the shaft is inserted into the U-shaped groove so as to temporarily retain the shaft at a predetermined position.
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