US Patent Issued to NSK Steering Systems America on Dec. 9 for "Single radial wedge for steering column tube to housing de-lash" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,926, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NSK Steering Systems America Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Single radial wedge for steering column tube to housing de-lash" was invented by David Ray Hartman (Brighton, Mich.), Victor Corona Martinez (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Antonio Otero (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Daniel Gazzerro (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wedge assembly for a steering column assembly including a wedge body and a pre-load member. The wedge body has a generally curved column tube contact face for contacting an outer surface of a column tube and a column housing contact face configured to contact a column housing. The w...