FUJI KIKO CO., LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160068181 | ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN STEERING COLUMN APPARATUS - Electrically-driven steering column apparatus including: lower jacket; upper jacket axially slidably inserted thereinto; and telescopic drive disposed astride these two jackets. The telescopic drive contains: support member; screw shaft connected to the support member; and electric motor unit fixed to the lower jacket. The screw shaft is rotatably driven by the motor unit to make slidable motion of the upper jacket with respect to the lower jacket thereby allowing telescopic operation. The lower jacket has axially extending evacuation section shaped by partially increasing the inner diameter of the lower jacket, thereby allowing the passage of nut member provided on the upper jacket. Attaching bolt is screwed into the nut member through longitudinally extending rectangular hole defined by the evacuation section. The support member is supported by the upper jacket through the attaching bolt. Pushing member is disposed circumferentially opposite to the evacuation section, for pushing the upper jacket inwardly. | 03-10-2016 |
20150224898 | SEAT RECLINING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE SEAT - A seat reclining apparatus including a base member, a rotatable cover member with an internal tooth gear, three tooth plates with external tooth gears, a pivotable cam member on an inner peripheral side of the tooth plates, a biasing member biasing each of the tooth plates, three guide projections projecting from the tooth plates toward the cover member, an annular grooved portion in the cover member, and three guide surfaces whose one or two being formed on an inner peripheral wall surface of the annular grooved portion, the remainder of the three guide surfaces being formed on the outer peripheral wall surface thereof, wherein the three guide surfaces serve to restrain displacement of the three tooth plates toward the lock position when the respective guide projections are allowed to run upon the corresponding guide surfaces. | 08-13-2015 |
20140352481 | STEERING COLUMN APPARATUS - A supporting unit of a telescopic adjustment mechanism is placed within an opening hole formed at one end side of an outer jacket and fixed to an outer peripheral surface of an inner jacket. A tip of a screw axle which is movable in an axial direction of a jacket is linked to the supporting unit. The inner jacket placed at an inside of an outer jacket is pressed on an inner peripheral surface of outer jacket by means of a biasing mechanism placed at an opposite side of the opening hole. Thus, positions of the supporting unit and the biasing mechanism along the axial direction of the jacket are substantially coincident with each other and the supporting unit is placed within the outer jacket in the axial direction of the jacket. Consequently, a steering column apparatus can be small-sized in the axial direction of the jacket. | 12-04-2014 |
20130285430 | LOCK DEVICE OF VEHICLE SEAT - A latch plate for a lock device is proposed which comprises a latch plate proper and a film that covers the latch plate proper. The latch plate proper includes upper and lower finger portions between which a striker catching recess is defined. An upper surface of the lower finger portion includes a depressed main portion located near the bottom of the striker catching recess, a raised leading end portion and a stepped portion provided between the depressed main portion and the raised leading end portion. The film covers the latch plate proper except the raised leading end portion. The film covers the depressed main portion of the upper surface in such a manner that an outer surface of the film is flush with the stepped portion. When the film is depressed by the striker, the stepped portion enhances a function is to stop a movement of the striker toward a mouth of the striker catching recess. | 10-31-2013 |
20130285429 | LOCK DEVICE OF VEHICLE SEAT - A seat lock device comprises a base plate having a striker receiving recess for receiving a striker, a latch plate having a striker receiving recess and rotatably connected to the base plate and rotatable between latch and unlatch positions with respect to the striker, a lock plate rotatably connected to the base plate and rotatable between lock and unlock positions with respect to the latch plate and a cover member having a U-shaped flange formed thereon and covering one major surface of the base plate having the U-shaped flange neatly disposed on a peripheral edge of the striker receiving recess. The seat lock device further comprises pawls provided by the base plate and depressed toward the cover member, recesses provided by the cover member for receiving the pawls respectively and stoppers provided by respective walls of the recesses for preventing the pawls from being disengaged from the recesses. | 10-31-2013 |
20130133460 | STEERING COLUMN APPARATUS - A steering column apparatus has a fixed bracket fixed to a vehicle body and having a pair of long holes extending parallel to each other along a backward-and-forward direction; a movable bracket arranged movably in the backward-and-forward direction; a pair of bolts and a pair of nuts for fixing the movable bracket to a rear portion of the fixed bracket so that the movable bracket can move in the backward-and-forward direction with respect to the fixed bracket; a spring plate having pressing portions for holding the movable bracket at the rear portion of the fixed bracket by pressing the fixed bracket against the movable bracket; a shear pin connecting the fixed bracket and the movable bracket at the rear portion of the fixed bracket; and first and second low friction elements. Upon a secondary collision, the movable bracket smoothly moves toward a vehicle front side together with the spring plate. | 05-30-2013 |
20130109526 | GEARED MOTOR | 05-02-2013 |
20130106161 | SEAT RECLINING DEVICE | 05-02-2013 |
20130074633 | GEAR SHIFT LEVER APPARATUS - A gear shift lever apparatus includes: a first support shaft pivotally supported on an upper housing; a gear shift lever swingably supported via the first support shaft; an engagement member provided to the gear shift lever; a second support shaft pivotally supported on a lower housing in parallel to the first support shaft with at least part of the second support shaft overlapping the first support shaft in an axial direction thereof; a selector lever swingably supported via the second support shaft; an engagement receiver formed in the selector lever and being engageable with the engagement member in a swing direction thereof; and a bypass unit configured to prevent the selector lever from interfering with the first support shaft upon swinging of the gear shift lever due to a manipulation of the gear shift lever through engagement between the engagement member and the engagement receiver. | 03-28-2013 |
20120024103 | STEERING COLUMN DEVICE - A female screw member | 02-02-2012 |
20120000311 | GEARSHIFT KNOB ATTACHING STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE GEARSHIFT LEVER UNIT - When an end portion of a gearshift lever | 01-05-2012 |
20110265595 | SHIFT LEVER APPARATUS - A pair of wiring structures | 11-03-2011 |
20110239802 | SHIFT LEVER DEVICE - A shift lever device includes: a body case configured to pivotally support a shift lever swingably; a circuit board including a electric component disposed on a board of the circuit board; a board cover including a housing part housing the circuit board in the board cover and configured to be mounted to the body case with the circuit board being housed in the housing part; a board supporting part provided to the board cover and configured to support the circuit board in the housing part; and an electric component supporting part provided to any one of the body case and the board cover and configured to support the electric component disposed on the circuit board. The circuit board is configured to be supported to the body case via the board cover. | 10-06-2011 |
20110227322 | STEERING APPARATUS - In a steering apparatus, an upper bracket that supports a steering column is configured as a breakaway bracket, and has a telescopic adjustment function that allows the steering wheel position to be adjusted in the axial direction of the steering column. The upper bracket has a first through-hole extending through the upper bracket in the axial direction. The upper bracket is provided with a guide rail | 09-22-2011 |
20110210538 | STEERING COLUMN DEVICE - A steering column device includes a mount bracket including a suspended portion hanging from a fixation portion. The suspended portion includes: a first wall extending along and adjacent to the jacket guide, a second wall located on an outside of the first wall in a vehicle width direction; and a front side wall and a rear side wall connecting front ends and rear ends of the first wall and the second wall to each other. Operation of an operating lever protruding from the suspended portion tightens a clamp bolt to connect and fix the jacket to the mount bracket. | 09-01-2011 |
20110210537 | STEERING COLUMN DEVICE - A steering column device includes a fixed member and a movable member disposed between a jacket and a mount bracket. The fix member is located on a mount bracket side, and the movable member is located on a jacket side. The fixed member and the movable member include a lock member and a lock tooth disposed to face each other. The lock member includes an elastic claw having elasticity to achieve engagement with and disengagement from the lock tooth. | 09-01-2011 |
20110187089 | STEERING COLUMN DEVICE - A steering column device includes: a bracket to be fixed to a vehicle body and including a first wall; a steering shaft; a steering column including one end supported by the vehicle body and an outer peripheral surface with a second wall, and configured to rotatably support the steering shaft; and a clamp shaft penetrating the first wall and configured to switch between a pressure and non-pressure contact states respectively where the first and second walls are and are not in pressure contact with each other. The first and second walls include: a pair of first protrusions disposed separately on both sides of the clamp shaft in a first direction parallel to an axial direction of the steering column, and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the steering column; and a pair of second protrusions disposed separately in the second direction and extending in the first direction. Each of the first protrusions contacts both of the second protrusions in the pressure contact state. | 08-04-2011 |
20100301593 | STEERING COLUMN DEVICE - In a steering column device, when a fastening bolt is rotated to a locked side, movement of a distance bracket in a telescopic direction is restrained by a movable die displaced by an urging force of an urging unit to bring a movable-side tooth portion into mesh with a fixed-side tooth portion and by a body mount bracket and the distance bracket brought into pressure contact with each other with an axial force of the fastening bolt. When the fastening bolt is rotated to a unlocked side, a restraint of movement of the distance bracket in the telescopic direction is released by the movable die displaced by a cam protrusion to bring the movable-side tooth portion out of mesh with the fixed-side tooth portion and by the body mount bracket and the distance bracket brought out of pressure contact with each other with the axial force of the fastening bolt released. | 12-02-2010 |
20100219624 | Steering column system - Provided is a steering column system capable of firmly holding a jacket during a normal condition and securing a larger movement stroke for the jacket when an excessive impact force is applied. To this end, when a clamp bolt ( | 09-02-2010 |
20100139439 | Steering column system - Paired distance pieces ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100050804 | Shift lever assembly and assembling method of shift lever assembly - A shift lever assembly includes a shift lever for shifting a gear position of a transmission, an operated member housed within the shift lever slidably along a longitudinal direction, a shift knob provided at a top of the shift lever for being held by a driver, a knob button coupled with the shift knob for shifting the operated member according to an operation thereof and pivotally supported between a temporarily-held position and an operative position, a cam plate integrally formed on an inside of the knob button, a cam pin provided on the operated member and cooperative with the cam plate, and a boss for holding the knob button at the temporarily-held position by contacting with the cam plate while assembling. The shift lever assembly can have a relatively simple structure and can decrease the number of components. In addition, the shift lever assembly can also improve assembling workability. | 03-04-2010 |
20090107283 | Steering column assembly - The steering column assembly includes: an upper clamp | 04-30-2009 |
20090056490 | Shift lever assembly - A shift lever assembly includes a shift lever swingably with a rotational axis as a swing support point, an axis supporting bracket for supporting the rotational axis, two axis supporting elements for supporting both ends of the rotational axis together with the axis supporting bracket. In addition, two beams are provided with each of the axis supporting elements. The beams will break off in case where an impact load is to be applied via the shift lever. Furthermore, a metal plate is provided with the axis supporting bracket for each of the axis supporting elements. The metal plate will be bent by the each of the axis supporting elements moving after break-offs of the beams. According to the shift lever assembly, stroke displacement for energy absorbing can be made relatively long. In addition, relatively large impact energy can be absorbed with short stroke displacement. | 03-05-2009 |
20080203799 | Seat Reclining apparatus for vehicle - A seat reclining apparatus includes: a disk-shaped base-side case; a disk-shaped arm-side case; a center shaft rotatably disposed in center part of the base-side case and center part of the arm-side case; a cam member fitted on the center shaft to rotate integrally with the center shaft; a lock tooth unit which cooperates with the cam member and engaged with a inner circumferential tooth portion formed on an inner periphery portion of the arm-side case; a lock spring; a protrusion protruding from an outer surface of the base-side case; and a recess at a position corresponding to the protrusion on an inner surface of the base-side case, wherein the lock spring is arranged in a space formed by the recess and a component accommodation space formed between the base-side case and arm-side case. | 08-28-2008 |