Patents Assigned to Volvo Lastvagnan AB
  • Patent number: 8117940
    Abstract: A steering wheel arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a steering column having a first end for cooperation with a steering wheel and a second end for cooperation with a vehicle steering mechanism. The steering wheel arrangement further includes a suspension arrangement for the steering column. The suspension arrangement includes two pivot joints and is pivotally connected to the steering column via a third pivot joint, the first, second and third pivot joints including first, second and third locking arrangements, respectively. The steering wheel arrangement has thus three adjustable pivot points where only one or two of the three pivot joints are adjustable in a first step depressing a foot pedal to a first position and only the remaining of the three pivot joints are adjustable in a second step depressing the foot pedal to a second position which implies that the adjustments can be made in a secure way by the driver during the ride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Volvo Lastvagnan AB, Fuji Autotech AB
    Inventors: Björn Andersson, Hassan Omarain, Andreas Alvehav, Thomas Paulsson, Hans Fredriksson, Ulf Eriksson, Pentti Hyvönen
  • Patent number: 7452009
    Abstract: A coupling for connecting an elastic hose to a rigid tube connection is provided, which tube connection has a peripheral, rigid rim, at least one rigid supporting member with a radially inward facing annular supporting surface being arranged so as to offer support to the hose end at the tube connection, in which the coupling includes an inner ring having two end portions, the inner ring being arranged so as, in a mounting state, to have its end portions mutually overlapping and lending the inner ring a smaller diameter than the hose and, in a mounted state inside the hose, directly opposite the inward facing supporting surface, to be expanded by the pressing-together of its end portions, end to end, to maintain a chosen larger diameter in order, within the hose, to clamp the hose end between the inner ring and the inward facing supporting surface, and in which the cross section of the inner ring is shaped with an arcuate portion and the supporting surface in the supporting member is correspondingly arched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Volvo Lastvagnan AB
    Inventor: Lars Tenglund