Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co .kg

Kyle DeHoff

Jeffrey Hemphill

Nicholas Hrusch

Todd Sturgin

Chris Luipold

Joshua Hixenbaugh

Trenton Dean

A planetary roller screw drive for a steering actuator includes a screw spindle and a planetary roller assembly arranged thereon. The planetary roller assembly includes a roller body, planetary rollers arranged between the screw spindle and the roller body and which mesh with the screw spindle and with the roller body. A planetary roller carrier holds the planetary rollers. A drive pulley is connected for conjoint rotation with the planetary roller carrier and is rotatably mountable on a housing via first and second radial bearings. These radial bearings include respective inner race rings that are located on the drive pulley. First and second face plates are located at axial end regions of the drive pulley, and the face plates are rotationally fixed to respective inner race rings. The face plates are also rotationally fixed to the planetary roller carrier. An assembly method is also provided.

Planetary roller screw drive with pulley mounted support bearing inner race

A split power gerotor pump includes a rotational axis, a shaft, an inner gerotor, an eccentric pocket, and an outer gerotor. The inner gerotor is rotationally fixed on the shaft, rotatable about the rotational axis, and includes n first lobes. The eccentric pocket is rotatable about the rotational axis, and includes a cylindrical bore with a center radially offset from the rotational axis and an outer surface, disposed radially outside of the cylindrical bore and arranged for direct engagement with a gear or a rotor for an electric motor. The outer gerotor includes a cylindrical outer surface installed in the cylindrical bore and n+1 second lobes.

Split power gerotor pump

Power assisted steering systems provide a gear reduction of approximately 25:1 between a steering wheel and a steering mechanism and approximately 625:1 between an electric motor and a steering mechanism. The system is back-driveable from the steering mechanism. In one embodiment, the gear reduction is provided primarily by three planetary gear sets, with the remainder provided by axis transfer gearing. In another embodiment, the gear reduction is provided primarily by a cycloidal gear set, with the remainder provided by axis transfer gearing.

Motor-assisted steering gearbox

A gerotor pump includes an inner gerotor, a wobble cancellation element, and an outer gerotor disposed radially between the inner gerotor and the wobble cancellation element. The inner gerotor includes a first outer peripheral surface with n first lobes equally spaced from one another in a circumferential direction, and n first depressions, each disposed between an adjacent pair of first lobes. The inner gerotor and the wobble cancellation element are coaxial. The wobble cancellation element includes a first inner peripheral surface with n+1 second lobes equally spaced from one another in the circumferential direction, and n+1 arcuate surfaces, each arranged between an adjacent pair of second lobes. The outer gerotor includes a second outer peripheral surface including n+1 outer depressions complementary to and arranged to engage the second lobes, and a second inner peripheral surface comprising n+1 inner depressions complementary to and arranged to engage the first lobes.

A power assisted steering system provides a gear reduction between a steering wheel and a steering mechanism and a much larger gear reduction between an electric motor and a steering mechanism. The system is back-driveable from the steering mechanism. The system utilizes a ball-screw, several helical gears, and two bevel gears. A rack fixed to the ball-screw nut drives a sector gear.

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Canal Fulton, OH, United States of America

Kyle DeHoff