• Patent Title: Steering column assembly
  • Application No.: US16578479
    Application Date: 2019-09-23
  • Publication No.: US11945496B2
    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
  • Inventor: Mark Anthony Wilkes
  • Applicant: TRW Limited
  • Applicant Address: GB Solihull
  • Assignee: TRW Limited
  • Current Assignee: TRW Limited
  • Current Assignee Address: GB Solihull
  • Agent Robert James Harwood
  • Priority: GB 19463 2018.11.29
  • Main IPC: B62D1/20
  • IPC: B62D1/20 B62D5/04
Steering column assembly
Abstract:
A steering column assembly for a vehicle includes a housing, a shaft, a first gear, first and second motors. The shaft is rotatably mounted with respect to the housing and is configured for attachment of a steering wheel at one end. The first gear is connected to and configured to rotate with the shaft. Each of the first and second motors have an output driving a respective output gear. The output gears are engaged with the first gear, and there being control means configured to operate the motors in a first mode in which the motors apply torque to the first gear in opposite directions and a second mode in which the motors apply torque to the first gear in the same direction.
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