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US 6,386,062 B1Granted
Fixing device for steering wheel
AssigneeNihon Plast Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuhiro Kaneko, Toshiyuki Sugiyama, Michael Anthony Bunce, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Kevin Dominic Delaney, Mikio Ochiai
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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.
Claims7
An arrangement comprising:
- a steering shaft having an axis and an end formed with a groove in a direction of intersecting said axis, said end including a first rotation stopper and a first fit-amount restrainer;
- a steering wheel;
- a boss fixed to said steering wheel, said boss including a second rotation stopper engaged with said first rotation stopper of said steering shaft and a second fit-amount restrainer abutting on said first fit-amount restrainer of said steering shaft, said boss detachably mounting said steering wheel to said steering shaft;
- a fixing device mounted to said boss, said fixing device pressing said steering shaft in a first direction which engages said steering wheel and said boss with said steering shaft, said fixing device being engaged with said groove of said steering shaft;
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- a pressing device formed with said fixing device, said pressing device pressing said steering shaft in a second direction opposite to said first direction when releasing said steering wheel from said steering shaft;
- wherein said pressing device is arranged inside said fixing device, and
- wherein said pressing device comprise a taper face.
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