Rotary connector
AssigneeNiles Parts Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Oishi
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Abstract
A rotary connector includes a stator housing 3a installed at a chassis side of a vehicle; a case 4 arranged at the stator housings 3a; a rotor 5 rotatably mounted at the stator housing 3a and connected to a steering wheel; a floating member 6 rotatably engaged with an, outer circumferential part of the rotor 5 and rotatably arranged above bottom surface 3k of the stator housing 3a; and a wound flat cable 7 of which one end is fixed to the rotor 5, the other end of which is fixed to the case 4 and intermediate part of which is passed through reversing segments 6b, 6c formed in the floating member 6 and reversed.
Claims21
A rotary connector, comprising:
- stator housings (3a, 22) installed at a chassis side of a vehicle;
- a case (4) arranged at said stator housings (3a, 22);
- a rotor (5) rotatably mounted at said stator housings (3a, 22) and connected to a steering wheel;
- a floating member (6) rotatably engaged with an outer circumferential part of said rotor (5) and rotatably arranged above bottom surfaces (3k, 22e) of said stator housings (3a, 22);
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- a wound flat cable (7) of which one end is fixed to said rotor (5), the other end of which is fixed to said case (4) and an intermediate part of which is
- passed through reversing segments (6b, 6c) formed in said floating member (6) and reversed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.