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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:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kazuhiro Kaneko, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiyuki Sugiyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Michael Anthony Bunce, Oxford, OH (US);
Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Shizuoka, JP;
Kevin Dominic Delaney, Shizuoka, JP;
Mikio Ochiai, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Nihon Plast Co., Ltd., Fuji, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 1/04 ; G05G 1/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 1/04 ; G05G 1/10 ;
Abstract
An arrangement includes a fixing device for a steering wheel that is mounted to a boss of the steering wheel to press the boss in a first direction of engaging the steering wheel with a steering shaft and is engaged with an annular groove of the steering shaft. A pressing device is mounted to the boss to press the steering shaft in a second direction opposite to the first direction so as to release the steering wheel from the steering shaft.