Patents by Inventor Sylire Baudon

Sylire Baudon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Device for retaining a shaft housed at least partially in a sleeve, which parts are capable of relative translational and rotational motion, and its application to motor vehicle steering systems
    Patent number: 5221154
    Abstract: A shaft retaining device having a shaft selectively retained as to translation and rotational movement. A sleeve coaxial with the shaft encloses a length of the shaft. The shaft has an outwardly projecting cam within the sleeve. A cam follower carried by the sleeve has a part thereof within the sleeve in a plane normal to the shaft axis and is cammed away from the shaft by the cam. The cam and cam follower have complementary profiles, one of which is a male profile and the other is a female profile, in which the cam and cam follower engage other effectively selectively immobilizing the shaft and sleeve as to relative translation movement when the cam and cam follower engage each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: NACAM
    Inventors: Jacques Foulquier, Sylire Baudon