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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
May. 09, 2002
Ratko Menjak, Frankenmuth, MI (US);
Zdravko Menjak, Troy, MI (US);
James Myrl Card, Lighthouse Point, FL (US);
Ratko Menjak, Frankenmuth, MI (US);
Zdravko Menjak, Troy, MI (US);
James Myrl Card, Lighthouse Point, FL (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A steering input device for a steer-by-wire system is provided. The input device comprises a first shaft and a hand wheel. The first shaft is rotatably installed in a first housing. The hand wheel is connected to the first shaft such that the hand wheel and the first shaft drive one another. The hand wheel has a range of motion of between about ±45 degrees and about ±90 degrees. The hand wheel also has an outer dimension of about 12 inches. The range of motion and the outer dimension allow the steering input device to be installed in a vehicle in a non-conventional position relative to a twentieth century conventional position including at least one of the hand wheel extending from the first shaft extending along a length defining the vehicle on one of two sides thereof and the hand weel extending rearward in the vehicle farther than an instrument panel.