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Title:
VEHICULAR RACK-AND-PINION TYPE STEERING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2005047301
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To suppress the rack sliding resistance to be very small while considerably reducing rattling noise.

In a first embodiment shown in Fig. (a), a rack guide 10 is substantially prismatic, and a sliding surface 11 of the rack guide 10 is formed in a recessed curved surface corresponding to a projecting curved shape of a back side of a rack shaft (not shown). A large number of rollers 12 (rolling members) are embedded in a rolling manner in the recessed curved sliding surface 11. In a second embodiment shown in Fig. (b), the rack guide 10 is substantially columnar, and the sliding surface 11 of the rack guide 10 is formed in a recessed curved surface corresponding to a projecting curved shape of a back side of a rack shaft (not shown). A large number of balls 13 (rolling members) are embedded in a rolling manner in the recessed curved sliding surface 11.


Inventors:
OKUMA TAKEO
Application Number:
JP2003203131A
Publication Date:
February 24, 2005
Filing Date:
July 29, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NSK LTD
International Classes:
B62D3/12; F16H55/28; (IPC1-7): B62D3/12
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshio Inoue