Thk Co., Ltd.

Toshiro Minami

Hiroomi Kuribayashi

Akito Kaneko

Hiroaki Mochizuki

Eiji Hosaka

Toshihisa Sakamoto

Kazuhiko Akiyama

Hajime Fukushima

Yuji Tachikake

Takama Igarashi

Takahiro Shoyu

Tomoki Obayashi

Torsten Berger

Ayumi Kuwajima

The guiding apparatus includes a first member having a sliding groove formed along a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of second members which are slidably assembled along the sliding groove so as to hold the first member in between, wherein the first member is formed with a first mounting hole on a bottom surface of the sliding groove, and the second member is formed with a second mounting hole on a surface opposed to the bottom surface, and wherein a stopper member is mounted to each of the first mounting hole and the second mounting hole, each of the stopper member having an insertion part which is to be inserted into each of the first mounting hole and the second mounting hole and is formed to be shorter in a length in an axial direction than a depth of the first mounting hole and the second mounting hole.

Guiding apparatus

This linear movement guide device is provided with a track rail, a slider block attached to the track rail so as to be capable of movement relative thereto via a plurality of rolling bodies, and a position-determining pin which restricts the relative movement between the slider block and the track rail, wherein: the track rail is provided with a securing hole for securing the track rail to a base member, and a position-determining hole into which the position-determining pin is inserted; the slider block is provided with a rocker bearing part having an attachment hole into which a rocker shaft is inserted, and also provided with a connecting hole into which the position-determining pin is inserted; and the attachment hole and the connecting hole are each positioned in a location that avoids the center of the slider block in the lengthwise direction thereof.

Linear movement guide device

In this motion guide device (), a track member () has a recess or protrusion () that is formed in a longitudinal direction, and a moving member () has a holding protrusion or holding recess () that corresponds to the recess or protrusion () formed in the track member (). When force is applied in a direction that would cause relative separation of the moving member () and the track member (), the holding protrusion or holding recess () holds onto the recess or protrusion () such that the moving member () and the track member () are unable to be separated. With this configuration, a motion guide device that is both compact and capable of withstanding a strong external load can be obtained.

Motion guide device

This rotation-linear motion conversion apparatus () includes: a pinion shaft () in which a pinion gear () is formed; a rack bar () in which a rack gear () that engages with the pinion gear () and a support surface () along a longitudinal direction are formed; and a support part () that supports the rack bar () movably along the support surface (). The support part () prevents a movement of the rack bar () in a direction X perpendicular to a surface () in which the rack gear () is formed.

Rotation-linear motion conversion apparatus and steering apparatus

A rotation-linear motion conversion apparatus () includes: a rack bar () in which a rack gear () is formed; a housing () that surrounds the rack bar (); a pinion shaft () including a pinion gear () that engages with the rack gear () and that is inserted inside the housing (); and a support part () that is provided on an opposed surface (), which is opposed to the rack gear (), of the housing () and that supports the rack bar () movably in a longitudinal direction of the rack bar ().

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiro Minami