Steering device for a drive-by-wire vehicle
AssigneeSKF Engineering and Research Centre B.V.
InventorsHendrikus Jan Kapaan, Eduardus Gerardus Maria Holweg, Alexander Jan Carel Vries
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Abstract
A steering device (1) for drive-by-wire functions in a vehicle comprises a base (2) which can be fixed to the vehicle interior at the location of the driver, and two steering grips (3, 4) at opposite sides of the base, which steering grips each can be gripped by a hand of the driver, said steering grips being coupled and being moveable with respect to the base in mutually opposite directions.
Claims18
Steering device for drive-by-wire functions in a vehicle, comprising a base which can be fixed to a vehicle interior at a location of a driver, and two steering grips at opposite sides of the base, which steering grips each can be gripped by a hand of the driver, said steering grips being coupled and being moveable with respect to the base in mutually opposite directions, each steering grip being moveable along a curved trajectory formed according to a circular arc for each steering grip, characterized in that the distance between the curved trajectories is smaller than a sum of a radius of the circular arc of each curved trajectory.
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