Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co .kg

Mark Brown

Shaun Tate

A steering actuator comprising a shaft having an input coaxial with an output, wherein the output is in drivable communication with one or more wheels of a vehicle, and a locking mechanism configured to enable the shaft to rotate in both a first direction and a second direction in response to torque provided at the input, and prevent the shaft from rotating in both the first direction and the second direction in response to torque provided at the output.

Steering-by-wire actuator with locking mechanism

A wheel spindle drive element for a wheel disconnect system. The wheel spindle assembling onto an outer diameter of a spindle, displacing material to form a joint with high torque transmission characteristics.

Wheel spindle drive element

An internal ball recirculation insert for a ball screw assembly. The ball screw assembly having a ball nut with at least one radial bore though it, a ball screw and load bearing balls. The ball screw and ball nut having complimental helical grooves, forming helical ball raceways when the ball screw and ball nut are assembled. The internal ball recirculation insert sized to fit into the radial bore of the ball nut, having a body portion, securing arms, a ball channel for channeling balls from one ball raceway to another and a friction or retention device around the circumference of the body portion. The friction device extending outwardly from a side wall of the recirculation insert, and contacting a wall of the radial bore in the ball nut.

Internal recirculation insert for a ball screw and ball screw assembly including the insert

A rolling element guide for a bearing assembly formed with cantilevered arms, the arms flexibly adjusting to contact with a guide surface of an inner or outer ring of a bearing. Lubrication channels in a surface of the cage are also disclosed.

Flexible bearing cage

A disconnectible stabilizer bar assembly for a vehicle having first and second stabilizer bar halves, a housing fixed to an end portion of each stabilizer bar half, so as to align the two halves. The housing containing a stator with magnetic coil, a rotor with exterior magnets and threaded onto a hollow screw, with the stator selectively rotating the rotor and the rotation translated into axial movement of the screw. The screw having meshing means on an interior surface and an end face, the interior meshing means meshed with an exterior meshing means on one of the stabilizer bar halves, and the end face meshing means selectively coupled and decoupled with aligned mashing means on the other of the stabilizer bar halves.

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Lakewood, OH, United States of America

Mark Brown