Oiles Corporation

Jtekt Corporation

Koyo Seiko Company, Ltd.

Masao Shimura

Masahiko Hirose

Masaaki Hashimoto

Yoshiro Kuzumi

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Takahiro Tanaka

Katsutoshi Nishimura

Takashi Horiguchi

Shuichi Kubota

Katsunori Saito

Hidetoshi Kaida

Yoshihide Ohara

Souichi Iwasa

Nobuyuki Sato

A rack and pinion steering device has a pinion rotatable in the R-direction, a rack bar having rack teeth meshing with the pinion and rectilinearly movable in the A-direction, a housing for rotatably supporting the pinion, a rack guide for slidably supporting the rack bar, and an elastic means for pressing the rack guide toward the pinion.

Rack guide and rack-and-pinion type steering apparatus having the rack guide

A bush bearing includes a synthetic resin-made bush having a circumferential groove on its outer peripheral surface; an endless annular elastic member fitted in the circumferential groove of the bush; and a positioning structure for determining the position of the bush in a B direction with respect to an inner peripheral surface of a gear housing.

Bush bearing and rack-and-pinion type steering apparatus for automobile using the same

A method of manufacturing a rack guide base body wherein a cavity () is formed which has a pair of semicylindrical convex surfaces (and) and a pair of flat surfaces () each located between the semicylindrical convex surfaces (and), and has a recessed surface () located on one axial end portion side inwardly of the semicylindrical convex surfaces (and) and the flat surfaces () and a cylindrical surface () located on the other axial end portion side inwardly of the semicylindrical convex surfaces (and) and the flat surfaces (); a hollow portion () is formed for allowing the cavity () to communicate with a hollow portion () at one flat surface () and with a hollow portion () at the other flat surface (); a rack guide base body () is die cast by forcing molten metal of aluminum from the hollow portion () into the cavity (); and runners () integrally joined to flat surfaces () of the rack guide base body () formed by the respective flat surfaces () are cut off.

Method of manufacturing rack guide base body in rack-and-pinion type steering apparatus and rack guide

A shaft coupling mechanismfor an electric power steering apparatus includes a coupling base bodycoupled to a rotating shaft; a coupling base bodycoupled to a steering shaftserving as a rotating shaft; and a pair of rotation transmitting membersandwhich are disposed between the rotating shaftand the steering shaftby means of both coupling base bodiesandand transmit the rotation of the rotating shaftto the steering shaft

Shaft coupling mechanism for electric power steering apparatus

A rack guide includes a rack guide base body which has on its outer peripheral surface a pair of semicylindrical surfaces and a pair of planar surfaces each located between the pair of semicylindrical surfaces, has a concavely recessed surface located on one axial end portion side inwardly of the pair of semicylindrical surfaces and the planar surfaces, and has a cylindrical surface located on the other axial end portion side inwardly of the pair of semicylindrical surfaces and the planar surfaces; and a slider secured to the rack guide base body.

Method of production rack guide base body in rack-and-pinion type steering device and rack guide

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Masao Shimura