Abstract: A bearing assembly for use with a window operator has a housing with an operator slot and a bore through which is threaded an adjustable bearing. The bearing contains a smooth end with two walls of differing diameter that form shoulders. The shoulders fit substantially against an inner and outer surface of the slot to rotatably position and secure an operator arm therein.

Abstract: The invention relates to an accelerator pedal module for controlling the power of a driving engine having a pedal lever which is retained rotatably about a pivot axis on a bearing block and which actuates a sensor shaft of a rotation sensor, the sensor shaft being coaxial with the pivot axis. At least a part of the sensor shaft is directly supported rotatably in a bearing bore of a bearing region that is integral with the bearing block, of which bearing region at least a part of the radially outer circumferential surface forms at least one bearing face for the pedal lever.

Abstract: A ball screw device has a screw shaft which has a shaft rolling groove in a spiral shape formed on an outer surface of the screw shaft, a nut which has a nut rolling groove formed on an inner surface of the nut and opposed to the shaft rolling groove, wherein the screw shaft is to be screwed in the nut so that the shaft rolling groove and the nut rolling groove are faced through a plurality of rolling balls, and a lubrication ring which is made of a lubricant-including material, comes in slide contact with the screw shaft, and is arranged in an end portion of the nut, wherein a non-contact portion, which does not come in slide contact with the screw shaft, is formed on the slide contact surface of the lubrication ring.

Abstract: A sliding centrifugal drive weight for use in an automatic transmission found in motor vehicles or watercrafts. The sliding centrifugal drive weight, which mainly consists of an outer friction shell and an inner core weight, comprises an upper inclined face in sliding contact with a ramp plate, a bottom surface in sliding contact with a movable drive pulley half, a left face, and a right wear resistant face. The sliding centrifugal drive weight is designed to eliminate abnormal wear, prevent reduction gear ratio deterioration, prolong the useful life of the transmission, and have the availability to adjust reduction gear ratios as well as driving performance. At the same time, the sliding centrifugal drive weight is also adapted to compensate wear automatically, to adjust by itself to move further outward in a movable drive pulley half, make the vehicle reach a higher maximum vehicle speed.

Abstract: A control lever assembly having a moveable lever and a knob mounted on an end of the lever. The knob has a hollow housing which is removably attached to a cylindrical base. The housing has a cylindrical side wall which forms an opening. A wheel is received in and partially enclosed by the housing for rotation therein. A portion of the housing completely surrounds an outer surface of one end of the wheel. A rotary encoder generates a rotary position signal and is coupled to the wheel by a stiff wire or shaft. The shaft extends through the wheel to a first end which is received by an alignment recess formed on an inner surface of the housing and to a second end which is coupled to the encoder. The shaft extends through a bore in the base and through a bore in the lever.

Abstract: A tilt steering assembly includes a support shaft extended along a tilt central axis. The support shaft is conductively assembled to a steering column and is unitarily rotated with the steering column during tilt adjustment. A resilient conductive member is interposed between a conductive end member provided at an end of the support shaft and a conductive fixed side plate including a support hole for supporting the support shaft. The steering column is grounded via the support shaft, the end member, the conductive member and the fixed side plate.

Abstract: A steering shaft bearing assembly (100) for a vehicle having a steering shaft (102). The steering shaft bearing assembly includes a bearing (108) having a bore (112) adapted to receive the steering shaft and a support body (120) having an outer surface (124) and a passageway (126) passing through the support body. The bearing is at least partially disposed in the passageway so as to be suspended by the support body in the passageway in a predetermined position. The support body comprises a flexible material for permitting the bearing to move from the predetermined position. About 50% or more of the outer surface of the support body is free of a rigid support structure for restricting movement of the support body when coupled to the vehicle during operation.

Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle is proposed which comprises one main transmission MT with one input shaft (1) and one output shaft (2), the same as at least one range change group (3) and one power take off, wherein one countershaft (5) integrated in the range change group (3) for actuating a power take off, the countershaft (5) being connectable, via a gear change sleeve unit (6), with the input shaft (1) and the output shaft (2) and the power take off can be driven independently of the operating state of the vehicle.

Abstract: A detent lever assembly for implementation with an electronic transmission range selection (ETRS) system that shifts a transmission range between a park position and an out-of-park position. The detent lever assembly includes a shaft rotatably supported by a housing and a detent lever rotatably supported by the shaft and rotatable between a first position and a second position. In a first mode, the detent lever is rotatable about the shaft and in a second mode the detent lever is rotatable with the shaft.

Abstract: a linear actuator capable of transmitting tractive forces as well as thrust forces and operating then as a rigid single-piece rod. The linear actuator has two identical actuating belts (1, 1?) with notches on each of their sides (10, 10?; 11, 11?) and provided on one first side (10, 10?) with uniformly spaced blocks (2, 2?) which mesh with drive members (3) such that the two actuating belts (1, 1?) are independent upstream of the drive members (3), whereas downstream of the drive members, they are integrally assembled so as to define a section extending along a straight line wherein the linear actuator operates like a single-piece rigid rod.

Abstract: A tilt adjusting unit for steering columns of vehicles. The tilt adjusting unit includes a support bracket having a guide slot and mounted to a vehicle body, a movable bracket to tilt along with the steering column, a connection rod to connect the movable bracket to the support bracket, a stopper provided at each of opposite ends of the connection rod. A locking unit is disposed on the connection rod to lock or unlock the movable bracket to or from the support bracket. The locking unit includes a rotary unit rotatably provided on a predetermined portion of the connection rod and a movable unit provided on the connection rod which moves axially along the connection rod as the rotary unit rotates, thus locking or unlocking the movable bracket to or from the support bracket. The movable unit is inhibited from rotating with the rotary unit by rotation preventing projections.

Abstract: The invention provides a steering column for a vehicle. The steering column includes a steering column jacket defining a column axis. The steering column jacket is operable to at least partially encircle a steering shaft in a vehicle. The steering column also includes a tilt housing engaged with the steering column jacket for tilting movement about a tilt axis between a plurality of tilt positions. The steering column also includes a locking member supported for linear movement by the tilt housing. The locking member has a tip moveable outwardly with respect to the column axis to a locked position contacting the steering column jacket and inwardly towards the column axis to an unlocked position spaced from the steering column jacket.

Abstract: A steering wheel assembly for a machine or a vehicle includes a steering wheel and a pommel mounted on the steering wheel for rotation about an axis extending parallel to the axis of rotation of the steering wheel to facilitate one-handed rotation of the steering wheel. The pommel carries control switches to control functions of the machine or vehicle in particular to allow shuttling between forward and reverse drive. A mechanism is connected to the pommel to rotate the pommel relative to the steering wheel in synchronism with the rotation of the steering wheel about its axis in such a manner as to maintain the same orientation of the pommel in all positions of the steering wheel.

Abstract: The present invention is electronically driven locking device for a locking element of a motor vehicle. The device has a motor, a gear wheel including a gear ring, a hub, and an elastic intermediate element, and a control disk. The motor is linked to the gear ring via a worm gear which is arranged to turn the gear. The control disk is linked to the locking element such that when the gear ring is turned, the hub is turned via the intermediate element which in turn engages the locking element to close or open. The intermediate element is arranged to absorb kinetic energy in the device.

Abstract: The present invention is a replacement throttle valve cable assembly and method of use for an automatic transmission of a land vehicle, which permits repair of the throttle valve cable without unnecessary replacement of serviceable components such as the cable housing and linkage clip components. This is accomplished by the use of a cable stop device or so-called adjustment stud, which permits transmission shift performance to be fine-tuned by temporary adjustments to the cable length prior to permanent installation. The adjustment stud includes a temporary setscrew fastener integrally connected to a permanent swage fastener by an undercut shear zone. Once the cable length is established and the vehicle road tested, the swage fastener is permanently installed on the cable. Thereafter, the segmented portion of the adjustment stud containing the setscrew is snapped off at the shear zone along with any excess cable by a suitable tool.

Abstract: A handle-adjusting device for adjusting position of a handle relative to a vehicle frame includes a valve cylinder with a valve rod, and a control rod that is formed with a pressing face and a release face. When the control rod is operated to align the pressing face with an upper end of the valve rod, the valve rod is disposed at a retracted position so as to enable rotation of the handle relative to the vehicle frame. When the control rod is operated to align the release face with the upper end of the valve rod, the valve rod is disposed at the extended position so as to prevent rotation of the handle relative to the vehicle frame.

Abstract: A device for connecting together a vertically disposed roller screw and roller nut assembly to a stationary member and moving member includes a bearing housing attached onto a fixed end of the roller screw. The bearing house includes at least one bearing and two bearing house pivots. A first universal ring concentrically surrounds the bearing housing and includes two mating pivots mated with the two bearing house pivots and two attachment pivots mated with corresponding pivots of the stationary member. A roller nut mount rigidly attaches to the roller nut and includes two roller nut mount pivots. A second universal ring concentrically surrounds the roller nut mount. The second universal ring includes two mating pivots mated with the two roller nut mount pivots and further includes two attachment pivots mated with corresponding pivots of the moving member.

Abstract: The invention concerns a gear for precision devices comprising at least two mutually co-operating toothed wheels (10, 14). The teeth (12, 16) of the two wheels have the same thickness (e) and the teeth of one of them (10) are provided with a radial slot (26) which divides them into half-teeth (22, 24). On of said half-tooth (24) comprises a recess (28) enabling its elastic deformation in case of overloading.

Abstract: An endplay structure is provided for controlling endplay of a shaft 25 of a motor 19. The endplay structure includes a body 22 including a generally elliptically shaped recess 26 therein. The recess is constructed and arranged to be disposed generally adjacent to an end of the shaft. An engagement member 28 has a generally spherical portion constructed and arranged to be received in a press-fit arrangement with the recess. The engagement member has a surface 32 constructed and arranged to contact the end of the shaft. Whereby, when the surface of the engagement member is contacted by the end of the shaft, the spherical portion of the engagement member is press-fitted into the recess to control endplay of the shaft.

Abstract: An automatic transmission (1) is described, having a variator (5) that comprises at least two conical disk sets (2, 3), such that a wrap-around element (4) is guided via the conical disk sets (2, 3) for torque transmission with continuous variation of the transmission ratio. In this, the arrangement of the rotation axes of two conical disks of at least one conical disk set relative to one another can be varied.