Abstract: A support bracket assembly for supporting a pair of bushing well interrupter devices provided within a transformer enclosure that encloses a transformer. The support bracket assembly includes a mounting bracket assembly rigidly secured to a parking stand on the enclosure and including a plurality of mounting bosses. The support bracket assembly further includes support brackets, a first adjustable link secured to one of the mounting bosses on the mounting assembly and a mounting boss on a support bracket, a second adjustable link secured to another one of the mounting bosses on the mounting assembly and a mounting bosses on a support bracket, and a third adjustable link secured to mounting bosses on two support bracket, where the first, second and third adjustable links form a triangular configuration.

Abstract: A system and method for determining an open or closed position of a magnetically actuated vacuum interrupter. The method includes applying a voltage signal of a known voltage to the actuator over a predetermined period and determining a change in current over time during the period when the voltage signal is applied to the actuator using an output of a Rogowski coil. The method also includes calculating the inductance using the voltage and the change in current over time at a predetermined time during the period and using the calculated inductance to determine whether the actuator and thus the vacuum interrupter are in the open or closed position.

Abstract: A motor vehicle steering column including a longitudinally collapsible mast jacket, a lower mount whereat the mast jacket is supported for vertical pivotal movement, and an upper mount consisting of a pair of stationary rigid strikers and a pair of releasable capsules on the mast jacket each of which receives in plug-in fashion and automatically retains a corresponding one of the strikers. Each of the capsules includes a socket, a plunger bore intersecting the socket, a plunger in the plunger bore, and a plunger spring biasing the plunger toward an extended position partially obstructing the socket. Each striker has a cam at a distal end thereof and an inverted frustoconical body. When the mast jacket is pivoted vertically up, the cams on the strikers shift the plungers inward in the plunger bores.

Abstract: A motor vehicle steering column including a steering shaft, a steering wheel having a hub thereon, and a lateral thrust attachment between the steering shaft and the hub of the steering wheel. In a first preferred embodiment, the lateral thrust attachment includes a cylindrical passage in the hub having a pair of flat sides converging in a V-shape, a first cylindrical journal on the steering shaft in the cylindrical passage in the hub having a matching pair of the flat sides converging in a V-shape, a laterally eccentric cylindrical cavity in the hub around a second cylindrical journal on an end of the steering shaft, and an eccentric sleeve on the second cylindrical journal in the eccentric cavity. In a second preferred embodiment, lateral thrust between the hub and the steering shaft is induced directly by a rod on the hub which laterally traverses the end of the steering shaft.

Abstract: A universal joint between an upper steering shaft and a lower steering shaft in a tilt-adjustable motor vehicle steering column includes a pair of bifurcated yokes formed to near-net-shape integrally with the upper and lower shafts, a plastic jacket molded in-situ on each of the bifurcated yokes, and a plastic centering sphere. Each of the plastic jackets has a pair of exposed, frusto-conical bearing surfaces molded thereon which slidably engage corresponding frusto-conical side walls of cross grooves in the plastic centering sphere.

Abstract: An anti-theft steering shaft lock on an automotive steering column including a first clutch element on a rotatable steering shaft and a second clutch element on a stationary part of the steering column. The first clutch element has notches accessible in the direction of the centerline of the steering shaft and the second clutch element has axial lugs for engagement in the notches. The second clutch element is mounted on the stationary part of the steering column for bodily movement in the direction of the centerline of the steering shaft between locked and unlocked positions relative to the first clutch element. An annular control element is rotatably supported on the stationary part of the steering column around the second clutch element and has a circumferential cam slot which receives a radial lug on the second clutch element such that rotation of the control element effects bodily shiftable movement of the second clutch element between its locked and unlocked positions.

Abstract: A steering column assembly for a vehicle which provides an infinite number of column positions within a field of motion and a larger field of motion than existing mechanism with memory set for all possible column positions with automatic return to retracted position.

Abstract: An engine turbocharger includes a turbine housing having wastegate passages integral therewith and a cartridge wastegate valve including a ported stationary bushing and a ported tubular valve member rotatable in the bushing to close or open wastegate flow. The arrangement provides simplicity of manufacture and installation as well as a self-cleaning valve design that is unbiased by exhaust gas pressures and thus requires a minimum of operating force.

Abstract: A lock cylinder assembly for a motor vehicle ignition switch includes a lock core rotatable in a cylindrical opening of a cyclindrical sleeve anchored in a housing. A lock bar acts between the core and the sleeve to normally lock the core against rotation and to unlock the core to permit rotation when a properly bitted key is inserted into a key slot of the core. A frangible retainer acts between the core and the sleeve to define a normal axial relation therebetween and fractures under an axial extracting force to permit axial outward movement of the core relative the sleeve. A second retainer acts between the sleeve and the core and is effective upon limited axial movement of the core permitted by fracture of the frangible retainer to block further axial movement and rotational movement of the core relative the sleeve.

Abstract: A multiple switch assembly mounted on a steering column has an actuator for operating a direction signal switch, a headlamp dimmer switch and washer/wiper switches, each operated by a selective movement of a common actuator lever.