Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jtekt Corporation

Tatsuya Kawai

Hiroaki Suzuki

Masaaki Kaneko

Yasutaka Fukumoto

Norifumi Furuta

Shingo Ougita

Toshinobu Maeda

Masami Inagaki

Naohiro Sato

An electric power steering device includes a restricting portion that is provided on at least one of surfaces of a housing and a worm wheel, the surfaces facing each other. The restricting portion is configured to restrict movement of the worm wheel to maintain a meshing relationship between a worm and the worm wheel that allows torque transmission between the worm and the worm wheel, when fixing of the worm wheel to an output shaft of a power assist actuator in an axial direction of the output shaft is released and the worm wheel is moved in the axial direction.

Electric power steering device

A PCU having an inverter and the like includes a connector electrically connecting the PCU and external equipment located outside the PCU, a safety bar attaching the connector for preventing the connector from being touched, and an ECU detecting that an interlock circuit is opened via an interlock signal line in response to detachment of the safety bar to shut off supply of electric power to the PCU.

High-voltage equipment housing and high-voltage connector

Growing community of inventors

Anjo, Japan

Tatsuya Kawai