Electrical contact for a vehicle steering device

US4548454A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Petri AG · DE

Inventors

• Gregor Zeller · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Helmut Bonn · Haibach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 16, 1982
• Grant date: Oct 22, 1985
• Expiry date: Dec 16, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D1/10
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a contact means for the transmission of signal or ignition current between the stationarily mounted steering column and the steering wheel rotatable with respect to the steering column. A contact track is fastened to the steering column and a counter contact track is fastened to the steering wheel. The contact track and coinciding counter contact track hold a contact body comprising at least one, preferably three roller bodies by means of a ball cage ring at a uniform angular distance of 120.degree. in the ball races. One of the contact tracks is elastically supported.