Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Gerhard Friederich

Alexander Ein Waldt

Michael Georg Figura

Armin Schymczyk

Hendrik Buer

A gear unit for a motor vehicle including a rotatable worm gear shaft rotating about a rotation axis and cooperating with a worm gear wheel in an engagement region spaced from the rotation axis. A pivotable rotary bearing mounts the worm gear shaft on a housing on one side of the engagement region and a loose rotary bearing, pretensioned in the direction of the spacing axis, mounts the other side in the housing. A support device supports the pivotable rotary bearing on the housing in the direction of the rotation axis. To optimize engagement between a worm gear shaft and a worm gear wheel, the pivotable rotary bearing pivots relative to the housing about a pivot axis perpendicular to the rotation axis and to the spacing axis. A support point of the support device is offset relative to the rotation axis along the spacing axis towards the engagement region.

Gear unit for motor vehicle

A bearing arrangement for supporting an endless screw of a steering gear on a gear housing of the steering gear. The bearing arrangement including a radial bearing rotationally connected to the endless screw. A resilient retention element connecting the radial bearing to the gear housing. The retention element is connected at the radial bearing side to an outer face of an outer bearing ring and fixed to the outer face of the outer bearing ring in an axially non-movable manner with respect to a longitudinal center axis of the radial bearing.

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Bornheim, Germany

Gerhard Friederich