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Title:
MOTOR-DRIVEN POWER STEERING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001151125
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a motor-driven power steering device whose material strength can be set at a low value so that it can be made smaller in size and lighter in weight, with its materials beings selectable from a wide range of materials so that materials with excellent silentness or the like are usable.

In this motor-driven power steering device, a steering wheel is turned by the sliding movement of a rack shaft meshing with a steering pinion connected to the steering side, and a motor output controlled in accordance with steering torque on the steering side is transmitted via a worm speed reduction mechanism to an auxiliary pinion spaced from the steering pinion and meshing with the rack shaft, so as to assist steering. The worm speed reduction mechanism has a structure in which worms 24 and 25 connected to the respective output shafts of plural motors 35 and 36 simultaneously mesh with a worm wheel 23 connected integral with the auxiliary pinion 20.


Inventors:
FUJISAKI AKIRA
YOSHIMURA HIDEO
Application Number:
JP33192799A
Publication Date:
June 05, 2001
Filing Date:
November 22, 1999
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SHOWA CORP
International Classes:
B62D5/04; B62D5/24; (IPC1-7): B62D5/04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Nozomi Ehara (2 outside)