Jtekt Europe

Fabrice Nobili

André Michelis

A power steering device for an axle assembly provided with a limited-slip differential designed to transmit a drive torque to a first and second wheel and to automatically activate, in the event of a loss of synchronism and/or of grip of one of the first and second wheels, an operating mode referred to as 'lockup mode' in which differential transfers most of the driving torque to the slower of the first and second wheels, the power steering also including a steering mechanism and a power steering motor controlled by a control module, steering control module containing compensation laws which allow the power steering motor to compensate for certain effects, such as alternating load backup or freezing, induced in the steering mechanism by activation of the differential lockup mode, so as to give the driver a feel close to that of an axle assembly that does not have a lockup mode.

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Vanosc, France

Fabrice Nobili