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US 2014/0318195 A1Published application
Electric steering lock device of vehicle and assembly method thereof
AssigneeDae Dong Co., Ltd.
InventorKi Woong Park
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an electric steering lock device of a vehicle and an assembly method thereof, more specifically, the invention can also be provided on a column housing of a different vehicle having a manual steering lock device by reducing the height of the product, and is capable of reducing the number of assembly process during assembling.
Claims10
An electric steering lock device in a vehicle comprising:
- a lock body having a lock hole formed opened downward;
- a cover unit coupled to an upper side of the lock body to form an inside space with the lock body;
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- a drive unit assembly arranged in the inside space to include a partition unit arranged to partition the inside space into an upper side and a lower side to have a plurality of mounting places formed on the upper side and the lower side,
- wherein the drive unit assembly generates power in the inside space which falls under the upper side of the partition unit and forwards the power to the inside space which falls under the lower side of the partition unit for moving the lock bar in a vertical direction through the lock hole.
2 more elements
A method for assembling an electric steering lock device in a vehicle comprising:
- a first assembly step for assembling a drive unit assembly by mounting a drive motor, a worm wheel gear, and a spur gear on an upper side and a lock stopper unit on a lower side for forwarding power generated in the upper side to the lower side with reference to a partition unit;
- a second assembly step for assembling the drive unit assembly assembled in the first assembly step to the lock body such that the lock bar moves back and forth through the lock hole formed downward, and
- a third assembly step for assembling the cover unit to a top side of the lock body such that the drive unit assembly assembled in the second assembly step is protected from an outside of the electric steering lock device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.