Steering column for motor vehicle
    1.
    发明授权
    Steering column for motor vehicle 失效
    机动车转向柱

    公开(公告)号:US6019391A

    公开(公告)日:2000-02-01

    申请号:US72236

    申请日:1998-05-04

    IPC分类号: B62D1/19 B62D1/16

    CPC分类号: B62D1/195

    摘要: A steering column for a motor vehicle having a gear box of an electric power assist apparatus in front of the steering column. The steering column includes a rigid mast jacket consisting of a short tubular sleeve and a bracket attached to the tubular sleeve having a pair of laterally separated guides straddling the gear box. A pair of lugs on the gear box cooperate with a pair of elongated slots in the guides in connecting the mast jacket to the gear box for vertical pivotal movement and for linear translation. A longitudinally collapsible steering shaft is rotatably supported on the tubular sleeve with a steering hand wheel at one end and a flexible coupling at the other end connecting the steering shaft to an input shaft on the gear box. The tubular sleeve is connected to the vehicle body by a clamp which releases the tubular sleeve for a collapse stroke of the mast jacket. The mast jacket protects the steering shaft against beam bending during the collapse stroke. The unobstructed span in front of the tubular sleeve between the guides yields a collapse stroke of the mast jacket consistent with acceptable performance of an energy absorber.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于机动车辆的转向柱,其具有在转向柱前面的电动助力装置的齿轮箱。 转向柱包括由短管状套筒和附接到管状套筒的支架组成的刚性桅杆护套,其具有跨越齿轮箱的一对横向分离的导向件。 齿轮箱上的一对凸耳与引导件中的一对细长的槽配合,将桅杆护套连接到齿轮箱,用于垂直枢转运动并进行线性平移。 纵向可折叠转向轴可旋转地支撑在管状套筒上,一端具有转向手轮,另一端的挠性联轴器将转向轴连接到齿轮箱上的输入轴。 管状套筒通过一个夹具连接到车体上,该夹具释放管状套筒以使桅杆护套的塌陷行程。 桅杆护套在塌陷行程中保护转向轴免受梁弯曲。 在导向件之间的管状套管前面的无阻挡跨度使得桅杆护套的塌陷行程与能量吸收器的可接受的性能一致。

    Locking system for adjustable position steering column

    公开(公告)号:US06616185B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-09-09

    申请号:US10177182

    申请日:2002-06-21

    IPC分类号: B62D118

    CPC分类号: B62D1/195 B62D1/184

    摘要: The vehicle steering column has a rake adjustment and a telescope adjustment. The adjustment mechanism includes a compression bracket with a telescope slot, a rake bracket with a rake slot and a rake bolt that passes through the telescope slot and the rake slot. A wedge lock is mounted on the rake bolt and positioned in the rake slot and the telescope slot. Rake and telescope teeth on the wedge lock are held out of engagement with a rake tooth rack and a telescope tooth rack during rake and telescope adjustment. The rake bolt is tightened to hold a selected adjustment position and the telescope teeth on the wedge lock engage the telescope tooth rack. During a collision the rake teeth on the wedge lock are moved into engagement with the rake tooth rack to fix the rake and telescope adjustments.

    Locking system for adjustable position steering column
    3.
    发明授权
    Locking system for adjustable position steering column 有权
    可调节位置转向柱的锁定系统

    公开(公告)号:US06419269B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-07-16

    申请号:US09664032

    申请日:2000-09-18

    IPC分类号: B62D118

    CPC分类号: B62D1/195 B62D1/184

    摘要: The vehicle steering column has a rake adjustment and a telescope adjustment. The adjustment mechanism includes a compression bracket with a telescope slot, a rake bracket with a rake slot and a rake bolt that passes through the telescope slot and the rake slot. A wedge lock is mounted on the rake bolt and positioned in the rake slot and the telescope slot. Rake and telescope teeth on the wedge lock are held out of engagement with a rake tooth rack and a telescope tooth rack during rake and telescope adjustment. The rake bolt is tightened to hold a selected adjustment position and the telescope teeth on the wedge lock engage the telescope tooth rack. During a collision the rake teeth on the wedge lock are moved into engagement with the rake tooth rack to fix the rake and telescope adjustments.

    摘要翻译: 车辆转向柱具有耙调节和望远镜调节。 调节机构包括具有望远镜槽的压缩支架,具有前槽的前叉支架和穿过望远镜槽和耙槽的前叉螺栓。 楔形锁安装在耙螺栓上,并位于耙槽和望远镜槽中。 在耙式和望远镜调整期间,楔形锁上的耙齿和望远镜齿与耙齿齿条和望远镜齿架保持不接合。 耙螺栓被拧紧以保持选定的调整位置,楔形锁上的望远镜齿接合望远镜齿架。 在碰撞期间,楔形锁上的耙齿移动到与耙齿齿架接合以固定耙和望远镜调整。

    Position control apparatus for steering column
    4.
    发明授权
    Position control apparatus for steering column 有权
    转向柱位置控制装置

    公开(公告)号:US6139057A

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-31

    申请号:US244382

    申请日:1999-02-04

    IPC分类号: B62D1/184 B62D1/18

    CPC分类号: B62D1/184

    摘要: A position control apparatus for an adjustable motor vehicle steering column including a friction clamp, a control shaft rotatable between locked and unlocked positions, a hollow rectangular frame moveable relative to the control shaft when the steering column is adjusted, a first toothed pawl a second toothed pawl, and an elastic bushing resiliently supporting the first and second toothed pawls on the control shaft inside of the rectangular frame. When the control shaft is rotated to its locked position the friction clamp frictionally captures the adjusted position of the steering column. The pawls have gear sectors thereon which are relatively angularly offset by one-half tooth pitch. When the control shaft is rotated to its locked position, the one-half tooth pitch offset assures that at least one of the gear sectors will mesh with a rack gear on the rectangular frame even if the other engages the rack gear peak-to-peak. Each pawl further includes a lug which cooperates with a plain edge of the rectangular frame in immobilizing the pawl when the gear sector thereon is meshed with the rack gear so that the meshed tooth couple between the gear sector and the rack gear reinforces the friction clamp.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于可调节的机动车辆转向柱的位置控制装置,包括摩擦夹具,可在锁定位置和解锁位置之间旋转的控制轴,当调节转向柱时相对于控制轴可移动的中空矩形框架;第一齿形棘爪,第二齿形 棘爪和弹性支撑弹性地支撑矩形框架内的控制轴上的第一和第二齿爪。 当控制轴旋转到其锁定位置时,摩擦夹摩擦地捕获转向柱的调节位置。 棘爪在其上具有相对角度偏移二分之一齿距的齿轮扇区。 当控制轴旋转到其锁定位置时,半个齿距偏移确保至少一个齿轮部分将与矩形框架上的齿条啮合,即使另一个啮合齿条峰到峰 。 每个棘爪进一步包括凸耳,该凸耳与矩形框架的平坦边缘配合,以在齿轮扇形部分与齿条啮合时固定棘爪,使得齿轮扇段与齿条齿轮之间的啮合齿联结加强了摩擦夹。

    Shaft coupling
    5.
    发明授权
    Shaft coupling 失效
    轴联轴器

    公开(公告)号:US5823703A

    公开(公告)日:1998-10-20

    申请号:US866792

    申请日:1997-05-30

    摘要: A shaft coupling including a socket, a first shaft, a plug on a second shaft seated in the socket, and a clamp operative to clamp together the first and the second shafts in the direction of a longitudinal centerline of the shaft coupling to prevent dislodgment of the plug from the socket. The clamp includes an annular first flange on the first shaft, an annular second flange on the second shaft facing the first flange, oppositely facing frustoconical shoulders on the first and the second flanges, a plurality of clamp jaws pivotally mounted on the first shaft arrayed symmetrically around the first and the second flanges each having a closed position inducing radial thrust on the oppositely facing frustoconical shoulders, and springs biasing each of the clamp jaws toward its closed position. The oppositely facing frustoconical shoulders convert the radial thrust of the clamp jaws into linear thrust in the direction of the longitudinal centerline of the shaft coupling to force together the annular first and second flanges. A peripheral edge of the annular second flange pivots the clamp jaws to open positions against the bias of the springs to permit completion of the shaft coupling in quick-connect fashion.

    摘要翻译: 一种轴联轴器,其包括插座,第一轴,位于插座中的第二轴上的插头,以及用于将第一和第二轴沿着轴联轴器的纵向中心线的方向夹紧在一起的夹具,以防止 从插座插头。 所述夹具包括在所述第一轴上的环形第一凸缘,所述第二轴上的与所述第一凸缘相对的第二凸缘上的环形第二凸缘,所述第一凸缘与所述第一凸缘和所述第二凸缘上的与所述第一凸缘相对的截锥形肩部,枢转地安装在所述第一轴上的多个夹爪, 围绕第一和第二凸缘各自具有在相对面向的截头圆锥体上引起径向推力的闭合位置,以及将每个夹钳朝向其关闭位置偏置的弹簧。 相对面的截头圆锥体肩部将夹钳的径向推力沿轴联轴器的纵向中心线的方向转换为线性推力,以将环形第一和第二凸缘压在一起。 环形第二凸缘的外围边缘使夹钳爪枢转以抵抗弹簧的偏压打开位置,从而能以快速连接的方式完成轴联轴器。