Connection structure of steering torque transmitting member for steering shaft
AssigneeNsk Ltd.
InventorsKazunori Takahashi, Seiichi Tachikawa
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Abstract
A coupling structure for coupling a pair of steering torque transmitting members interposed in a steering shaft is arranged such that a steering torque is transmitted from one of the steering torque transmitting members to the other through a pin. One of the steering torque transmitting members has a pin insertion hole formed with a large diameter hole portion, a stepped receiving portion and a small diameter hole portion, while the pin has a large diameter portion, a stepped portion and a small diameter portion which are respectively engaged with the large diameter hole portion, the stepped receiving portion and the small diameter hole portion of the pin insertion hole.
Claims4
A coupling structure of steering torque transmitting members for a steering shaft for coupling a pair of steering torque transmitting members interposed in a steering shaft, characterized in that:
- one of the steering torque transmitting members and the other of the steering torque transmitting members are adapted to transmit a steering torque through a pin;
- said one of the steering torque transmitting members has a pin insertion hole formed with a large diameter hole portion, a stepped receiving portion and a small diameter hole portion;
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- said pin has a large diameter portion, a stepped portion and a small diameter portion which are respectively engaged with the large diameter hole portion, the stepped receiving portion and the small diameter hole portion of the pin insertion hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.